Or 'token' homework acceptable?

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Just spotted my DD's maths homework. She has to draw margins into her maths book and number the pages. DD is in year 8.
AIBU to be pissed off at this? The school had a massive fall in GCSE results this year (35% 5 A-C grades!!) and I would have thought they would be on it to turn these appalling results around. I don't know how drawing a flipping margin is going to help with that.
It's too soon to storm in isn't it? Perhaps there is a reasonable excuse that I just can't see. I feel like shouting at this foolbert quite loudly.
Fucking margins!

that is dreadful!

What a total arse. The teacher, not you obviously.

Passmethecrisps heh, that's brilliant!

(your post upthread, not the one you just commented on, which I agree sounds awful).

You 'had to shout' at the teacher? You should be able to get your point across without shouting.
Today I saw my new year 10 class for the first time this year; by the time I had gone through the class list, located the 4 girls late cos they had pe before when everyone else had Chemistry, allocated seats, given out and labelled exercise books and discussed expectations re classwork and homework, checked which pupils had returned their text book and so needed to be given another one, given out homework books and checked that we all had the same room allocations, there was not time for much Maths. We made a start but I would be quite happy to give a homework like the one described.
But carry on being 'hated'.

You should be able to get your point across without shouting.

I don't know.

I have had years of fighting tooth and nail for SEN provision for my DDs and been treated appallingly by some teachers yet I have never ever raised my voice to any of them. However, I think even I might find it hard not to get a bit shouty if I found out that someone had taken such an enormous risk with my son's life through sheer laziness.

Funny what you forget, I went to secondary in the 80's and our first homework of the year was cover books in wallpaper and drawing in the margins, we where told it was to save faffing in lesson and it did seem to work you could tell your homework book a mile off so just grab it from the pile on the way out of lesson and no "miss/sir I need a ruler" or pointless wandering under the guise of needing borrow a ruler, meant lessons could start straight away

Not a pointless task ; will save time in lessons and indicate commitment and neatness; you would be horrified at the number of children who cannot/will not draw a straight margin and number in sequence.
My first homework at Grammar school every year was to cover and label exercise and text books.

YABU. It's the first day of term FFS. And you're thinking of shouting and storming? Who else is going to do it? Presentation of work is important.

You're "one of those parents" aren't you?

It means that you can't tear a page out of an exercise book without it being noticed.

That means a teacher can see whether someone has really got things the first time or whether they struggled for 3 pages first.

Or leave the first 3 pages for formulas and the rest for work.

And it also means the teacher can write things in the text book such as 'please see my comments on p8'

Task needs doing and teacher doesn't want to waste class time, sounds sensible to me. Yabu. I bet teacher wouldn't have set any homework today.

Definitely one of those parents.
Shouting? Storming in? For heaven's sake.
Term's been going a matter of days and already some parents are finding trivial stuff to moan about. Teachers have enough to do supporting parents and pupils who have real issues.