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Poll: Adults Scoff at Homework Gripes

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:05:57 PM
By BEN FELLER

 Alex Lam-Niemeyer uses his fathers laptop to play games on the Internet in this Aug. 31, 2005, file photo in his Berkeley, Calif., home. An AP-AOL poll of 1,085 parents and 810 teachers of children in grades kindergarten through 12  found that children were assigned the right amount of homework. Only 19 percent of parents said their children were assigned too much homework. The poll also found that plenty of students get no homework at all, including one in four high school students. (AP Photo/Noah Berger/File) WASHINGTON (AP) - Too much homework? Sorry, kids, the adults aren't buying it. Most parents say their children get the right amount of homework, and most teachers agree, according to an AP-AOL Learning Services Poll.

Even among the parents and teachers who say the load assigned these days is out of whack, more of them say it's too light — not too heavy.

In Palmdale, Calif., Dwight Daugherty, 52, says his two sons barely take home any homework from high school. "Kids," he says, "aren't being as well educated as I was."


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