How much homework for a child is too much? My grand daughter spends at least four hours on

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68. I always felt she was a slavedriver

No other teacher did it. Many of my peers had no teacher who pushed like this. They sailed through school doing nothing.

We had the advantage of having a library across the street from our school. Our teacher made sure we used it. We kids complained. I don't remember any parents complaining though. They lobbied to get their kids in her class. The kids who stayed after the school year ended only did so for a few weeks. Better than failing which she did not accept.

As for the long hours of rote copying, I agree that is worthless, but seems as if the teacher is trying to make sure there's NCLB. She is trying to make sure kids can pass the tests since that is all that's taught in school anymore. My teacher made us make notebooks, collect stuff, classify material, write reports, give speeches, etc. All before the age of computers. There was not time in the school day to finish it all.

And I learned more that year than any year before or since.