So, kind of settling in, at a meeting I ask an Assistant High School Principal (there are several Assistant Principals at both high schools?) how many hours of homework are assigned to our students to complete each evening? His reply: “Oh, an hour or half an hour when they do it.” WHAT. “Mostly,” he adds, “they do homework during class.”
Now, other than hiring the Superintendent, determining expenses re curriculum and other costs, school board members haven’t authority. Certainly not over what teachers teach or how much homework they assign or are willing to accept. Doesn’t mean we aren’t permitted to think, be taken aback, be furious (to ourselves – decorum) or nearly go across the board table, leaning far forward, which I ultimately tend to do from time to time.
