Homework serves the purpose of reinforcing classroom teaching and helping students develop independent work habits. Homework assigned to the students is to be meaningful work which is related to the course or current topic under investigation and is aimed at the ability level of the individual student. If a student is expected to spend his/her time outside of the class doing written assigned work, the teacher has an obligation to correct, check and/or grade his/her work. The teacher may elect to keep written assignments, but students shall have an opportunity to review their corrected work within a short time upon the completion of the assignment.
The amount of homework assigned should be reasonable and accomplished with the resources available to the student in the home. Suggested guidelines as to the length of homework assignments are as follows:
Grades 6-8 students....... * Recommended up to 1 hour/evening. Homework activities should encourage higher level thinking skills, independent reading, and skill practice.
Senior High School students....... *Recommended up to 2 hours/evening. Homework should offer application to real life situations, encourage life-long pursuit of knowledge, skill practice and required preparation to include reading.
Home study time is important to successful test completion; therefore, the administration shall have the authority to schedule testing such as quarter, semester, final and/or nationally normed tests to insure a student has a reasonable home study load on those occasions.
Homework is not to be used as punishment. All homework assigned should be such that all children can be successful.
*Homework, as with any school work, is dependant on the student's ability. It is understood that students with poorer skill development may spend more time in completing homework.
*Students attempting advanced or accelerated course work would expect to assume a greater level of independent work.
Students are responsible for completing unfinished class work on their own time. However, upon repeated occurrences of this, the teacher will make every effort to determine why the work was not completed during class time and make adjustments, if needed, for the child to become successful.
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ADOPTED- June 19, 1984; June 10, 1991; September 14, 1998; July 26, 1999