Lost in the land of no where – and another freakin’ addition to the homework log…

Ok, for reals ya’ll…I’m breaking out the slang for this one.  When I thought it couldn’t get any worse, I look at my son’s folder for the upcoming week…?   Yea, there is a new section.  A section entitled “Homework something-ablah-blah-blah”.  Now come on, where do we put a stop to this.  I’ve been taken my stand here and I’ve been more than defensive.  I’ve been respectful of the people in charge and now, now I’m losing my cool. 

And, while I am busily losing my ability to maintain civility on this matter, more is being added.  I’m really starting to wonder how loud you have to yell, how many toes do you have to step and when and where is the end of the line.

With that, let me interject that I spent my weekend with some fast talking tech-gifted individuals but the conversation at one point made it to children and homework…as is wont to happen when you have a group of people together for a long period of time.  One man has 3 children and 2 in school.  His wife is a public school teacher and he was fully in agreement that it is out of control. 

Another woman there joined the conversation long enough to say that she had just gone to the school this past week to discuss homework with her 7th graders teacher.  The child was doing upwards of 4 hours  of homework per night.  And, she finally drew the line in the sand and said “no more”.  Her exact words were “if you are going to have her for 8 hours a day and you want me to then teach her for 4 hours a night, I can homeschool her and get it done in less time with at least the best results and very possibly better.”

And, with that, we shall see how successful is in her ploy to move on her words.  The gentleman mentioned being very disturbed because his first grade was being taught probability.  His words were something along the lines of “I didn’t do probability until my sophomore year in college and I took a lot of math.”  This man holds an MBA in International Tax Law and has written his thesis on this subject.  So, we aren’t talking chopped liver here people, this is a very educated man, his educated wife and another highly educated woman all expressing the same concerns that I have. 

When will someone finally realize that enough is enough?

We actually brainstormed on this…that’s coming in my next post….stay tuned.