The note is opening up a great conversation about education, our kids and our future. 'I am very grateful Brooke has an innovative teacher who is willing to adopt new policies for the benefit of her students and their families,' Gallagher said. The mom posted the teacher's letter to Facebook with the caption, 'Brooke is loving her new teacher already!' Samantha Gallagher's 7-year-old daughter Brooke is in Young's class. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early.' Rather, I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success.

Research has been unable to prove that homework improves student performance. There will be no formally assigned homework this year. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. 'After much research this summer, I am trying something new. Young passed out a letter to every parent at 'Meet the Teacher Night' before school started to explain her no-homework policy. GODLEY, Texas - Kids across the country are heading back to school, but in a small Texas town, one second-grade teacher is making a big promise.īrandy Young, a teacher at Godley Elementary school, says this year, her students will have no homework. My husband does much better with our fourth-grader at homework time (he has much more patience than I do), but somehow I always end up having my daughter in tears after the first few minutes of helping her with homework.Teacher creates no homework policy so students can enjoy family time

One parent was all for the “no homework movement,” but thought it would be good for her sixth-grader to have it just as preparation for middle school.Īnother common thread was that having a reading log and spelling words to work on from home were beneficial.

Some teachers commented that they had made their own decision not to require homework and focused instead on classroom learning. Most of the comments included tales of their children crying most nights and the nightmare that homework can be for many households (mine included!).

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