I’ve been working at an aftercare for over 2 years now and it pains my soul when I help my second graders with homework. I’ve been with the same group of kids last year for first and the rate they progress the level of difficulty between lessons is alarming. Even in the beginning of 1st grade the students had a hard time figuring out what 8+3 was. By the end of first grade they were doing 15+7 type problems and weird addition stuff like the doubles plus one. Now I’m second grade, I see students absolutely hating homework because they’re doing like 20 problems of adding 4 numbers (ex: 32+19+24+9) and these are the same group of kids who never learned 8+3 is without using fingers. Then today a girl asked for help on a English problem about levers and pulleys! I remember learning that in 6th grade!
The few kids last year who liked homework and did well last year came back from summer break asking me how to spell words like “my”. The kids are getting difficult articles to read also, like I’d look over the story’s and see such large vocabulary being used for 2nd graders.
I’m only 19 and it’s so clear to me that to make our kids smarter is less homework and take the time to master addition and subtraction between the grades pre-k to 1st. It’s just cruel to give these 2nd graders 4+ pages of homework a day.
I feel like the government is slowly dumbing these kids down. Why do they do this??
Submitted December 13, 2017 at 06:38PM by mystique201 http://ift.tt/2yordBR
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