Originally Posted by wendyful04
You mean you actually got homework over Christmas Break when you were in school?
I thought it was just the crazy teachers at my school. My school is the #2 middle school in Miami-Dade, and one of the top 3 magnet middle schools (performing and visual arts) in the country, so the teachers and the parents are crazy competitive and sometimes, the kids beg me to give them homework assignments to write down in their agenda book so their parents won't get mad. I just tell them to write "read for 30 minutes".
It's like they actually want the kids to max out their stress levels and grow up to have a heart attack by age 28.
I do encourage reading, though. Since they all watch tv, I tell them to at least keep the captions on to improve their reading skills. Some of them actually look like they're in pain when they look at a book.
(BTW, I teach ESE classes.)
My son does not like reading either. Even though I read to him every night until he was about 7 and he sees me go through books like underwear. I even got him subscriptions to Thrasher and GamePro and he barely reads those. It's an epidemic.
Maybe I should start reading to him again.