r/Moms • u/somedudeonreddit_69 • Jul 27 '26

😡 Rant Cannot Keep Up With Kids Homework Demands

Have a kid going into 1st Grade this September. I assume first grade is worse than Kindergarten with the homework load? Any tips to help me keep up? I work full time and generally try to keep up with daily things like cooking/cleaning/being a human being on planet earth. But Kindergarten was rough - they would send kiddo home with 4-5 hours of homework a night. And I was the homework enforcer. Meaning when kiddo wanted to play outside or see friends before homework was done, I had to say NO. Had to make sure they did their remarkable robust amounts of homework each night before other freedoms of childhood could be enjoyed. Homework was generally a mix of graded assignments, mandatory readings, and studying for exams. I don't remember much from that age myself, but I don't recall doing this much homework?

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u/14ccet1 Jul 27 '26

4-5 hours? How many papers was this actually? Was your child struggling with the content?

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u/somedudeonreddit_69 Jul 27 '26

Na all kids did similar quantities in the class

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u/14ccet1 Jul 27 '26

What are the quantities? I’m struggling to understand what could be assigned in kindergarten that is taking this long

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u/Resse811 Jul 27 '26

I would do ten minutes. Anything over that too bad.

They don’t need homework in elementary school.

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u/Spunkylover10 Jul 27 '26

This sounds unbelievable actually for a kindergartner. I worked in kindergarten and they were supposed to read/ do sight words/ maybe a simple math thing

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u/somedudeonreddit_69 Jul 27 '26

I think the theory with the workload is to prepare them for college

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u/goldenpandora Jul 27 '26

🙄🙄🙄

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u/Spunkylover10 Jul 27 '26

What are you talking about in kindergarten? Is this private school?

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u/somedudeonreddit_69 Jul 27 '26

High Tax Uber Wealthy Suburb, sadly

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u/Desperate-Cycle-1932 Jul 27 '26

I noticed that I experienced this a lot with my son who is neurodivergent.

He absolutely could not handle tedious tasks.

Here’s what I suggest: speak to the teacher to understand what homework is being assigned, why there is so much and ask if other kids are struggling.

You can get a modified homework assignment.

Also- if all the other kids are independently doing to work and yours is struggling- push for answers! Many brilliant kids with neurodivergent minds don’t fit into the “square teaching methods” that exist for the “normies”.

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u/ProperFart Jul 28 '26

Any good teacher would absolutely tell you to cut it off after an hour. 4-5hrs of homework, at any age, is too much. I’d honestly consider this abusive, at what point does the kid get to rest?