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Class 2 homework shows up on the app at 9 pm, when she's already asleep

violet_lantern_5141

Most evenings the teacher posts the next day's homework between 8.30 and 9.30. My 7 year old sleeps at 8.30, the baby goes down around then too, and on my on-call weeks I may not see the message till morning. So it gets done at 6.45 am over breakfast, rushed, or it doesn't get done and I write a note. My partner is at home this year and has started staying up just to check the app, which seems a bit much for class 2. Is this normal now? How do other families manage it?

3 comments

  • plum_spoon_3232

    Teachers are often posting after their own children are in bed. Some apps let them schedule posts. Worth asking, politely, whether it could go out by 5.

  • hazel_badminton_1527

    Had exactly this in class 3. Clinic till 8, so I'd see it at 10. We did it at breakfast and the teacher never once minded. In class 2 it's a worksheet, not a crisis 🙂

  • umber_bookmark_8866

    I coordinate at a school, for what it's worth. We have a rule that nothing goes out after 6, because parents raised exactly this. It wasn't one parent, it came up at a PTM from several of them together. Teachers do want to get it right, they're usually working late too.

    • violet_lantern_5141

      Several of us together sounds better than me writing in alone. There's a PTM next month, I'll bring it up there.

    • dusk_balcony_1641

      Replying to @violet_lantern_5141

      Speak to two or three other parents before the PTM so you're not the only hand going up. Teachers hear it differently when it's a group.

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