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Really interesting idea. I rarely assigned homework and some teachers thought I was nuts. I knew the kid weren't going to do it, anyway. Veteran teachers chalked this up to laziness, but the truth was most of my students were heading home to a house where they had to cook, clean, and care for younger siblings because their parents were working two jobs to make rent. Many of them had jobs of their own. One student attended school from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm, went home to maintain the household and squeeze in her virtual night classes, then worked a shift at the gas station from midnight to 6 am. She lived with a very sick grandmother who was bedridden and needed constant care. How in my right mind could I have assigned her busy work to take home?
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