Does your child play any AAU sports?

Sports can be a wonderful release for students with learning difficulties. Unfortunately, in junior and high school academics is a huge part of athetics. Eligibility issue often harm students who struggle with academics. We have friend that adopted a young boy with learning difficulties. His mom and I taught in the same district, so we often talked about the difficulties he had with playing High School sports. Our friend struggles with reading plays in basketball. In my estimation, the coaches did not accomodate this student's needs. Okay, now I am going to rant just a bit, and please take it as such, but my thought is....having too much homework is not healthy. Kids need time to be kids, which means time for socializing with peers away from school, time for playing sports (individual or team)and interacting with other family members in a non-educational capacity.

I totally agree with your rant. I have tried talking to my son's teachers, but they all say that homework is important and they can't let them out of any of it.

That is really too bad. Of course, not knowing the specifics makes it easy for me to armchair teach, but I still believe that kids spend a lot of hours at school and should have some down time when not in school.