to not want to come home from a day's work to face an hour or more of homework?

[jasper]

Serves me right for having 3 kids in 3 years I suppose.

It is just such an unwanted added source of stress in the evenings

hear hear

keep schoolwork at school !

absolutely. i hate homework with a passion, perhaps even more so than DD2. DD1 gets on with it herself.
i want to spend my time with them doing nice interesting things not yet another boring list of badly worded mths questions and shouting at each other.

here here!!!3 kids in 2 years...HOMEWORK IS UNBEARABLE!!!!

I was just think that today. If your working when do you fit the homework in?

and it obviously doesn't sink in....my kids are literally 12months apart and not one of them can answer my "you must've done this....how do you do it?"!!!General answer is..."how're my supposed to remember that?It's a year ago!"!!!!!

...and I don't go to work.....!

gosh I was bracing myself to be told I am unreasonable.

This has cheered me up immensely to know we are united in this misery

aw its a shame how old are they?

9,8,6

i even tackled one of the teachers this year. "This homework that you give out...is it for us parents do work it out,or is it stuff they've done in class that they should be able to do on their own?" This threw her."Well...it's a bit of both really...!"
yeah,yeah!...In other words,they want us to work it out for them cos they haven't been able to get it across in school time!!!!
REALLY SORRY IF UPSETTING ANY TEACHERS HERE.I'VE ALOT OF RESPECT FOR YOU.But,surely,you know yourselves,this is all about "targets" etc.

we have so much homework between my two, we end up doing much of it at weekends as the weekday evenings are filled with stuff like mumsnetting, I'm A Celebrity, gymnastics, athletics, PTA, baths, sleeping etc

Mine are 10,9 and 8.I didn't believe my now 10 year old when she used to sob and sob when she didn't understand what she was supposed to be doing.Then home came my son a year later...doing the same thing and again my dd2 a year later...and she's the "clever" one!!!

cutekids, respect!

I have often wondered that too.
is it revision of stuff they know ( in which case I would happily let my kids not do it ) or are we meant to be teaching them the homework stuff.

anyfucker

Well,we might laugh but,at the end of the day,I'm sure i'm not the only Mum whose kids have got other things going on at weekends?
So,when they've done all that,why shouldn't we want to relax with a bottle(or 2)with the X FACTOR;GET ME OUT OF HERE ETC.???
And-as I said-I don't go out to work.God knows how any working mums ever get any relaxation...respect!

I think their planning to have coffee morning in Maths for parents!!! I read it in the TIMES so it must be true. So how am I going to tell my boss sorry I've got to go to a coffee morning for Maths. Also sending parents the working outs for maths on a weekly sheet.

Well, I was going to flame you, but since your children are still at primary, yanbu! Its too much to expect children (and parents) to have to do after school work. Children should be children.

I can give you slight light at the end of the tunnel though. Once they are at secondary, all you have to do is shout 'have you done your homework' and just don't get involved, unless you want to!

starbear you tell your boss you've sourced your own advanced numeracy training and it will cost work 0p. they should be deeply impressed

I don't mind when the homework follows up or extends stuff they have done in class and does not take longer than 20 mins.

It's when I am expected to teach my dds something they have not done in class yet and then the school takes credit for the children's advanced levels in the league tables.

And yes ofsted they are outstanding but not necessarily because the teachers are fab!

(I am a teacher myself BTW)

infants and juniors should have no more than reading, spellings and tables imo.

smartiejake, It's how you tell it.

I must be hopelessly out of touch. When I was at school, homework was for the children to do, not the parents! The point of it is surely so the teacher can determine how well the child has grasped the classwork, which isn't helped at all if the parent does the homework for the child. I take it I'm in for a shock when DS goes to school?

dd 8 had to prepare a talk to her classmates( to be delivered tomorrow ) with an intro, a middle and an a end then ask them some questions to check they were listening.. She keeps getting out of bed ( yes, now, after 11) crying because she is so worried she will forget bits of it.

Twinkle we have to sign a homework jotter and comment on how well our child understood and how much assistance was required.

I have to isolate each of the 3 kids individually while the other 2 lark around with me hissing at them to be quiet.

I physically can't help onw with homework while supervising the other 2.

then do same all over again.

And again

jasper