I must be missing something. Your principal's an idiot. How
do you know what the other teachers have assigned?? Or not??

Why come to you? Are you team leader? Tell your kids that
whatever is left over of the 80 minutes they should use as
reading time - and keep a log of their time.

All homework is difficult to enforce unless you collect a
work sheet - so give them a nightly sheet to summarize their
reading.

> I.
>
> I don't agree with this whole thing but I won't get into
> the reasons since they don't matter. My problem is I am
> continually being called on the carpet about the amount and
> quality of homework I give.

Why YOU? (Some of the other teachers
> don't even give it, while I give it Monday-Thursday without
> fail).
WHY YOU ALONE???? AND why couldn't you tell the principal
that left on his own, that sheet would have taken the student
about 25 minutes??
>
>

>
> The textbook doesn't go home. We use it in class as the
> guided-reading part of our day. There's nothing in the book
> I'd be comfortable having them read on their own, anyway;
> its purpose is for it to be used in class for whole-group
> or small-group instruction.
>
> They have math, social studies, and science
> classes as well as language arts.

What did she say when you said that to her?
>
> Do I need to
> give them THREE of these story/question sheets each night?

No, you need to point out that they have other subjects or
that the policy needs to be changed.

> Am I missing something simple I could be doing and working
> harder, not smarter?

I must be missing something because this story doesn't make
sense.
>
> Any help would be welcomed.
>
> Cathy
>

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