To not want to do DDs homework this evening?

[UnspecialSnowflake]

I am so bloody sick of the homework the school sends home. DD is in year two, and every half term we get given a sheet with a list of homework projects on it, one to be done each week, in any order we want.

Every single sodding project involves either model making, doing a PowerPoint, creating a fact sheet or a poster or some other sort of research which is far beyond the solo abilities of the average seven year old. Maybe I'm being a brat but I don't want To spend yet another evening creating a fucking fact file on some random animal. I want her to have a maths sheet, or some spellings to learn, or maybe some comprehension, or just something that she can do mostly by herself.

As far as I can see all the DCs in her class are learning from these homework projects is that your parents do the bulk of your homework for you. And the very worst thing is that these efforts don't get marked by the teacher, the children mark each other's parents work.

Argh, rant over.

I don't get it. You don't do it, Your DD does it.

She can do 1-2 powerpoint slides with your help, bit of copy & paste & typing words in. You help her choose from the background or layout options.

She can tape cardboard boxes together with masking tape & call them a castle or a car.

Fact file = 3 facts you look for together & she writes them all down.

Poster = A4 sheet with stick figures & misspelt words in crayon.

'Keep a diary' : 2 x 1-3 sentence entries on different dates.

Scale it down to make it into something that looks like a 6yo did most of it.

The thing that used to get me about these project homeworks was the massive assumption that every parent had the funds and access to a branch of Hobbycraft on their doorstep, and minions to clean the Mod Rock splatters off the walls. You should have seen the displays - they were clearly parent projects.

More fool the parents then. Just let the children be children and create something of their own.