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What might happen if you encouraged her to skip homework? Is there any mitigation for whatever harms you'd see? I'm just interested in ideas about this: I've b
by abecedarius 11y ago
What might happen if you encouraged her to skip homework? Is there any mitigation for whatever harms you'd see?
I'm just interested in ideas about this: I've been seeing schoolwork darken the life of my niece; her parents are trying to help, and all I can do is mention my opinion to my brother once or twice. I also think homeschooling would be better.
- blisterpeanuts 11y agoShe'd start getting all these blue slips, then eventually letters and phone calls from the teacher and the principal. School is all-in or all-out. You either play by their rules, or go somewhere else. I think for grade 6+, we're going to look around a bit but the reality is, we're like most other families, too busy and stressed and not enough funds to really do the right thing which would be home school, or else alternative school. But, maybe we will. She's worth it!
- abecedarius 11y agoGood luck! Yeah, I know there'd be a reaction from the school, but I wonder how much real trouble it'd bring. (Of course it's way easier for me to wonder than for you all to try it. I hope I'm not annoying you here.) When I was a kid I skipped a lot of homework -- for some classes in high school, basically all of it -- which got me in some trouble with my parents and got me kicked out of the honors English tracks twice (in middle school and then in high school), but FWIW I still got into a good college via test scores and (surprisingly) teacher recommendations. Unfortunately I can't claim this would generalize -- these were California schools in relatively affluent neighborhoods, and decades ago, and I'm not your daughter... and I'll shut up now. But I hope this might've been vaguely helpful to hear.