Riverwood Presbyterian Church

Education

Doing Some Homework on Homework

by Clay Staggs

I’ve heard several friends complain about the amount of homework that their elementary age kids have to do. Just a few years ago, I would have thought that such comments were just whining and that the kids needed to suck it up. My views have since changed. In fact, when we were deciding on policies for the classical school, we all agreed that homework in the elementary years should be limited (no more that 15 minutes for the first three years, if memory serves, and then only 30 minutes after that through the 5th grade).

Now it seems that there’s some science to back us up. This comes courtesy of the Instawife (married to the Instapundit, the granddaddy of blogs). Interesting reading.