Homework

So Reed is really good about doing his homework in a timely way. He does much of it at school - not sure if it's in class or in study hall, but either way he doesn't log a lot of time doing schoolwork at home. I'd say he spends at most an hour per week on homework. Now sometimes he doesn't remember to turn stuff in (minor detail!), but he does it. These days there's an app/website where we can see his current grade and the assignments he's missing....and honestly I try not to check it too much, but I get a weekly email summary which leads me to check it and pester Reed about what needs to be turned in. Some students obsessively check this app for their grades, but Reed has never once used it. I hope at some point he'll take more ownership of his grades and take care of this stuff himself.

Now Amy, on the other hand, her schoolwork becomes a huge problem probably every three weeks or so. One frequent cause is that she has a philosophical disagreement with the content of the assignment. And lordy is it dramatic. There are usually tears. Some yelling. It's not a lot of fun. Sometimes she has trouble just getting started on projects that she thinks will be daunting. There's a lot of over-thinking and second-guessing. This is also no fun for any of us. And she is one who checks the grade app pretty often, but not obsessively, thank goodness.

Fortunately both of them get great grades. We know how lucky we are to have two fantastic students.