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has anyone else had this experience this year? i thought that because the yomim tovim are so early this year that the teachers would have seichel and give very limited homework until after Succos. instead my kids have been bombarded with homework that takes hours some of it in subjects that are very important for yom tov like english and economics. i can’t tell you how many nights i was supposed to do something for yom tov and instead i was busy with homework. i am greatful to have who to do homework with but i really think it could have waited until after yom tov!
Good morning!!! Old old issue. The teachers give homework officially to the student. But you all know who ends up having the homework headache…of course the Mommy!
I don’t know what the situation by you is but I can tell you that when I was a teacher I gave a limited amount of homework or none around yomim tovim.
The exception is when I gave it as a punishment for misbehavior.
If you have an issue why don’t you discuss it with the teacher? If I were still a teacher I’d much rather hear about an issue directly from a parent as opposed to the principal or reading here on YWN.
Talk to the teacher first, then the supervisor of that teacher if there is still a problem. Always go to the teacher first, though, in a non-confrontational manner. When my son was in fifth grade, his English teacher gave the boys an assignment due after Succos, that could not in any way, shape, or form be done by the boys without EXTENSIVE help from Mom and Dad. In many cases, the parents DID the work, because it was taking so long for them to oversee their sons’ work AND prepare for the yomim tovim. My husband literally sat for hours with my son, explaining what the teacher was asking him to do, and starting him off, then watching him do the work. It was torture for ALL of us.
We had open school night with the teachers, and many, many of the parents verbally attacked this teacher. (I am not maskim to such a tactic, but I could not really blame them for expressing their anger in unison). The teacher simply misjudged the assignment’s level of difficulty vis a vis these students. She should have started out with them all working together in class, to better understand exactly what was expected of them. She also should have been more realistic about a) the truly enormous amount of work she had assigned and b) the fact that the parents would not want their kids to be doing written assignments during chol hamoed. In the end, the best thing to do is approach the teacher privately and reasonably, see what the expectations are, and explain why you believe it might not be doable. There is always a place to compromise.
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