If there are four classes and 80 minutes per night. That should equal
20 minutes per subject. I am assuming that the principal thinks you
aren't giving enough because it took only ten minutes.

I think what you are doing is fine. If you have to give more, than
require that they write a summary of what they read. Writing never
hurts and summarization is a skill worth working on.

On 11/06/09, Jo wrote:
> I say, assign your portion of the time or a bit more and document,
> document, document. Keep records of what you assign, the purpose
> of it, etc.
>
> Do you work in teams at your school or is everyone an individual
> entity? If in teams, e-mail the team members asking what homework
> they are assigning and how long they expect it to take their
> students so you can plan your homework level accordingly.
>
> Document, document, document.
>
> O
> n 11/06/09, Me again wrote:
>> It's 80 minutes total, for all subjects, but I'm the only one
>> being confronted about it. I don't want to rat anyone out on my
>> team but it's getting ridiculous. The math teachers and the
>> language arts teachers are always held responsible for these
>> things, even though science and social studies should share the
>> responsibility.
>>
>> On 11/06/09, Jo wrote:
>>> Are you sure you are correct in the mandate or the
>>> administration is correct in the mandate?
>>>
>>> While 80min/night of total homework sounds reasonable, what
>>> you are describing is 80 min/night/class. Or are they just
>>> mandating LA homework. Otherwise, even with block days that
>>> is 4 x 80 = 320 min/night 5 hours of homework a night?
>>>

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