Friday, October 12, 2007

Article: How Homework is Hurting Our Family

How Homework is Hurting Our Family
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119110156798243825.html

How Homework Is Hurting Our Family
September 30, 2007

I hate school!

Yes, I know that's a bit immature for someone 41 years old. But it's true. I hate school -- so much so that my wife, Amy, and I have hired a college student to help our fifth-grade son manage his schoolwork a few times a week.

It's not that we can't do the work with him, or that we don't want to. Just this evening we helped him study for a reading test, and over the weekend I was quizzing him on customary and metric units of measurement one day and biological definitions the next.

Read the rest of the article at the link above.

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