Parents doing their kids’ school work
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- November
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Does this happen all over the place?
A friend of mine has an issue at school about parents doing their kids’ work.
The twist is that these are group projects. And get this, the parents of the kids in a couple of the groups are actually meeting to divvy up the work they’ll be doing for their kids on the project.
And get this – one of the kids involved complained publically that someone else’s PARENT was messing up on the project.
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I’m sure this goes on all the time and it stinks. After all, the schools start grooming the parents for full parental involvement starting in elementary school.
Two weeks ago, I overheard one parent complimenting another on the great job she’d done on her daughter’s book report poster project. The other parent responded, “Thanks, you too�.
When my child was in third grade I complained about a project that seemed impossible for a child that age to complete without a parent actually doing the work. I went in to tell the teacher that my child had actually done all the work himself and I hoped that he would not be penalized. She said she thought that it was a good thing for parents to do some of the work (although the assignment had not indicated that) because it encouraged parents to bond with their kids. I think it encourages kids to feel incompetant.
yea we got int trouble helping out our kids. Not by doing but going over the homework before they handed it in, we would mark the wrong answers and make they do it again until it was correct. The school sent us a letter asking us not to do that anymore. ?!
um isnt it being a good parent making sure your child understands the work and the assignment and sends in the right answers especially when they have done it themselves. we never gave the answers always made them do it themselves. I laughed at the letter. only when my kid needs help figuring something out and he asks I always help him follow through the steps, but the answers are all theirs.
The problem with sending your child back to school with corrected homework is that the teacher may never find out if your child is having trouble with a particular topic. Additionally, homework should be providing the child a lesson in working independently.
I think there’s too little actual teaching going on in the schools and too much being done by parents and tutors. And that’s a surefire recipe for a widening achievement gap between economic classes.
The whole issue of parental involvement has become muddied. Because “studies show� that parental involvement is such an important factor in student achievement, the educational establishment keeps pushing for more, even if inappropriate, involvement.
At a recent college meeting, the counselor stressed a very important part of the college essay-writing process; IT SHOULD BE THE STUDENT’S OWN WORK!
It never occured to me that parents would have the temerity to write their son/daughter’s college essay. A science fair project is worrysome enough, but the idea that a parent would pen the (up until then) most important essay of one’s life is galling.
I cannot believe the alarming increase in parents doing student’s work. I actually went to a conference last year where a social studies teacher talked about how she has had to change the way that she teaches due to this problem. She is a project based teacher and now she has to do almost all project in the classroom. It seems as though it is working well for her.
I did some of my daughters work when she was in the 5th grade and an asignment came in asking her to graph a curve on log log paper and find the slope of the line produced. It was a problem that should not have been assigned. And that is what I put on the note to the instructor, whom I am sure did not know if my answer was correct or not.