I posted this cartoon today which is relevant to your post from 2 years ago. Hope you enjoy. https://www.webdonuts.com/2013/04/presenting/

our kids have a lot less homework in comparison to kids from European countries and European students stay in school longer.

I am A parent of four there is 20 years between my oldest and youngest.When my 33 and 30 year old was in school things were way better than now. My 12 and 13 year old are expected to learn way too much these days.The system is too fast paced,every thing is rush, rush these days.I took my youngest 2 out of public school 2 years ago because of bullying, among numerous reasons.When your child gets harassed or assaulted the teachers do nothing.My daughters last teacher embarassed her in front of every one for no reason ,even the principal said that was not how they do things.I made the teacher apologize to her in front of her whole class.Needless to say she was not happy,But if I had not gone to the school and raised HELL she would have got away with it.The principals of the schools want to wash all bad things under the rug and forget about it if their good grade kids do something bad, like attack my son.They allowed this kid to bully all the way through elementary school.That is when I said enough of these strangers teaching my kids and pulled them out of the system. We are all better for it.The only thing they miss is there old friends.They said most of there teachers were mean and hateful any way.Parent, I challenge you to spend one day in school with your child to see what this corrupt government of ours has done to the education system.You would be surprised how many teachers have quit their jobs because of the government sticking their nose where it does not belong.I worked for the school system for 3 years,you would be shocked at how they let kids get away with things because of their parents,academi c skills or color yes I said color.Open your eyes parents before it is to late.

I expect my child to learn more and to do better. but as parents we could help our children a lot better. but there are a lot of parents who can not do the homewook the kids do today because they do not know it some of the parents need to be taught.

I teach K4 and what I do in class Im expected to do to prepare my class for kindergarten the next year. My curriculum to do this is what I remember doing IN kindergarten if not early first grade!! But the kids really do get a grasp of things pretty quickely and every year it seems Im having to bump up the curriculum to challenge a majority of the class. My class I have over the summer and super excited to start learning to read this coming year... they eager to learn to experiment and to discover.