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Davis school district scrutinizes homework loads
- 01-06-2010
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By Melody Gutierrez/Sacramento Bee
The Davis Joint Unified School District has conducted a survey to see if parents think teachers are overloading kids with take-home work. An estimated 2,000 parents responded, and the results will be out next week. Davis administrators plan to use the findings to reshape the district's homework policy. "We have a lot of responses of grave concern that kids don't have access to balance in their life," said Heidy Kellison, a parent who co-chairs the district's homework advisory committee. "(Homework) limits family time and regular hang-out time for the students." The district allows teachers to assign 10 minutes of homework beginning in kindergarten and increase it by 10 minutes for each grade level. (more...)
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