guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009
—
Sherri and Tom Milley's children are now exempt from completing school assignments outside the classroom Usually it is the children, not the parents, who are loath to spend their evenings practising spelling and learning times tables. But a Canadian couple have just won a legal battle to ...
blogs.babble.com - 11/19/2009
—
blogs.babble.com —
That headline might be a little misleading. The
parents in question didn’t win the battle with their...
children over doing their daily homework. No, these parents went to court to have their children declared legally exempt from being assigned homework in the first place.
(more)
Canadian Parents Win Homework Battle
Comments
Blog Reactions
Canadian Parents Win Homework Battle
Strollerderby —
... Sherri and Tom Milley are lawyers in Calgary, Alberta. After years of doing daily battle with their oldest son over his reluctance to do homework, they had had enough. When their two younger children, Spencer, 11, and Brittany, 10, began giving them similar fits over homework, the Milley’s decided to do something about it. ...
Canadian Parents Negotiate "No Homework" Agreement
Mother Talkers —
... We have discussed the mounting piles of homework and debated their value several times here at MotherTalkers. One Canadian family - lawyers, unsuprisingly - have taken their objections to homework to a new level and negotiated an agreement with their children's school and teachers, agreeing that homework won't be used as a basis of grade evaluation so long as the children keep up with classwork and perform well on tests. ...
No homework tonight, or ever, for these kids
BabyCenter: MOMformation —
get_out_of_jail_free Sherri and Tom Milley, parents of three school-aged children, may never have to listen to their kids complain about doing their homework again. Why? They negotiated a plan with their children’s school, which legally exempts their children from having homework, ever. The Milleys, both lawyers from Canada, grew tired of the nightly fight over homework. Rather than blindly enforce the school’s agenda, they did some homework of their own. What they found out was surprising. Many of the studies they read failed to prove any decisive link between homework and ...
Weekly Parenting News Roundup
Mother Talkers —
... A Canadian couple won a legal battle to exclude their three children from completing homework assignments, according to the Guardian in the UK. The couple, Sherri and Tom Milley of Calgary, Alberta, filed their lawsuit after years of struggling to make their children complete homework assignments, especially since there is no evidence it actually improves school performance. Do you agree or disagree with the Milleys's actions? ...
Related Content
Parents on homework
joannejacobs.com 13 days ago — On a SurveyUSA News poll, most parents of school-aged children said their children spend 30 to 90 minutes a night on homework. Only 14 percent said homework takes less than 30 minutes and another 16 percent said it takes more than 90. Parents tended to think today’s kids gets more and ...
Homework is OK, parents say
joannejacobs.com 8/29/2009 — Children spend no more time on homework than on TV watching, counters a University of Nebraska study.
For years we've been told that children struggle each night with hours of mind-numbing homework.
But homework "does not seem to interfere with students' recreational and social ...
When parents do the homework
joannejacobs.com 3/27/2009 — In Illinois, teachers are trying to get parents to stop doing their kids' homework. But some assignments seem designed for adults. From the Chicago Tribune:
Vernon Hills parent Barb Rosenstock admitted that she once helped her son build a project for a school assignment. In her defense, she ...
Are You Caught in a Homework Battle in Your House?
empoweringparents.com 9/25/2009 — The great homework battle comes and goes in our house. Sometimes, my daughter sits down and dutifully pulls out the workbooks and sharpens her pencil and gets it done. Sometimes, she wants me sitting at her elbow and will do silly things to keep me engaged in her homework routine. For ...
Homework Survival for Parents
empoweringparents.com 10/27/2009 — Homework is often a barometer of what’s going on in the child’s life, and it’s easy for parents to misinterpret the issue. Sometimes the child can’t do the work because of a learning disability. Very often, the issue really isn’t the homework.
What's Up With All the Homework?
momversation.com 10/8/2009 — Two hours of homework every night? Are you kidding us? What ever happened to just being a kid? Lots of moms are becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of work their child has to do outside of the classroom. Sure, ...
End the Nightly Homework Struggle: 5 Homework Strategies that Work for Kids
empoweringparents.com 10/27/2009 — Are you trapped in a nightly homework struggle with your child? The list of excuses can seem endless: “I don’t have any homework today.”“That assignment was optional.”“I did it at school.” If only your child could be that creative with their actual homework, getting good grades would be no problem!
Homework At My House
thezenofmotherhood.blogspot.com 11/8/2009 — I'm almost kidding . . . **** Also, my blog would like to send a little thank you note to Ekanthapadhikan . Ekan sent my blog a present: I guess my blog truly has taken on a life of its own! Have a great Sunday!
Homework Hell? Part I: How to Turn It Around
empoweringparents.com 11/9/2009 — Has homework time become the seventh circle of hell in your house, with you nagging your kids to do their assignments and fighting with them over each math problem? If you and your child are battling nightly over schoolwork, read on to hear the real solutions James Lehman offers to this frustrating
Follow MommyBlips on Twitter
Reactions
