DD has no textbooks and it seems as if for most homework (except Maths) they are expected to use the internet to research projects (on which her relatively leafy comprehensive seems very keen). She has some 'Jobs in London' (now and in the future) homework which with the best will in the world (in my opinion) is requiring picking out of info well beyond that which you'd expect most DC of her age-group to be capable of. It seems much more like sixth form work IMHO, as most searches throw up proper reports to sift through. As far as I'm aware her school has not even taught them the relevant skills to do proper key word searches. I'm a bit gobsmacked about what seems to be required of them TBQH (as is DD!), unless we're missing a very basic trick. I cannot recall DS (at super-selective) ever doing anything as hard at the same age, although they had full access to text-books. AIBU? It all seems unnecessarily hard?
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No textbooks and using the internet for collating info for projects - WTF
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ReelingLush18 · 14/02/2018 17:40
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