Recommended homework email

If your child had difficulties with homework last year, I am recommending that you cut and paste the following text into an email and send it to your child's teacher. Enter the appropriate names where there is capitalized text. I hope this helps. Good luck with your efforts and feel free to contact me if I can be of further help.

Dear TEACHER’S NAME

Last year, homework proved a challenging experience for CHILD’S NAME and our entire family. There was very little gained, educationally or emotionally, from the efforts we made.

In researching the topic, I have come across a model that I believe will work. I would appreciate it if you would take a moment and follow this link, www.thehomeworktrap.com. Please read the section, The Homework Trap: A Model for Change. I would like to use that as a basis for our next discussion.

Sincerely,

PARENT’S NAME

Dr. Kenneth Goldberg, is the author of The Homework Trap: How to Save the Sanity of Parents, Teachers, and Students, published by Wyndmoor Press.