Homework!!!!

So I have come up with a few realizations, through both mine and Mikaela's eyes, about the concept of homework and thought I would share them.

1. I am fairly certain after 8 years of school that homework is really designed to see whether or not parents pay attention to their kids. It has very little with increasing their education and more as a litmus test to see how much a parent will prude, push, and actually do for a child when it comes to homework.

2. The answer to the "Do you have any homework?" Is ALWAYS no and there is no reason for you to ask the question because you already know the answer.

3. When it comes to big projects (science, term papers, etc.) No matter what your child says they have had at least a months notice, they have always known the exact date that the project was due, and yes the teacher did answer whatever insane question they had.

4. When it comes to homework it will always take longer if the TV, radio, computer or any other electronic is on...no matter how much your child insists that they can't study in all quiet.

5. The answer to the question on homework is always what your child says and never what the teacher explains. Even if the teacher's explanation makes absolute sense it is always easier to say “Ok I see that you're right, but let's do it the way the teacher is saying to just for the grade." It will save countless arguments.

6. Your child's homework is always way harder than anything you had in school and they have way more homework than you ever did (which is actually true to some extent.) So never try to compare the two.

7. When it comes to missing homework be aware that it's not your child's fault ever because "they didn't know about it, the teacher lost it, they thought it was due another day, or some other logical perfectly understandable reason."

Finally having had to deal with homework for a few years now, enduring countless 2 am science projects, seeing innumerable progress reports that state missing homework as reason for poor grades and world class blow out arguments about how to reduce fractions......I would just like to say  "I'M SORRY!!!"  to my parents, teachers, and anyone else that was affected by homework.

Julie