Grammar Academic Load

• Students will be enrolled in all classes appropriate for their grade level and individual needs.
• Students are to be in classes for all seven periods in the day.
• Students and parents are to be prudent in arranging after school activities and other matters that might infringe upon study time.

Homework

I. PHILOSOPHY

Veritas Academy may assign some amount of homework to many of its students at any given time. Below are the primary reasons or causes for homework being assigned:

1. Students often need some amount of extra practice in specific, new concepts, skills, or facts. In certain subjects (e.g. math or languages), there is not enough time in a school day to do as much practice as may be necessary for mastery. Therefore, after reasonable in-class time is spent on the material, the teacher may assign homework to allow for the necessary practice. Note: This should be done for an entire class, not on an individual basis. Due dates/times for assignments apply to each student equally (exceptions for illnesses, emergencies, etc. of course may be allowed).

2. Repeated, short periods of practice or study of new information is often a better way to learn than one long period study.

3. Since Veritas Academy recognizes that parental involvement is critical to a child’s education, homework can be used as an opportunity for parents to actively assist their child in his studies. This will also keep the parents informed as to the current topics of study in the class.

4. Homework may also be assigned to students who, having been given adequate time to complete an assignment in class, did not use the time wisely. The homework, in this situation serves a punitive, as well as practical purpose.

 

II. GUIDELINES FOR ASSIGNING HOMEWORK:

Since homework, by its nature, takes time at home, it is not to be assigned due to the teacher’s poor planning or in place of an assignment which could have been completed in school. The student’s time at home is to be encroached upon for only the best of purposes.
The necessity for doing homework will vary from grade to grade and even from student to student. The guide below should be regarded as maximum times, not as required minimum times, and then only if homework is assigned. In any event of homework normally being assigned, the student’s Assignment Notebook should be used in the elementary grades and a student-owned assignment book should be used in the secondary grades.

 

Grade	Maximum Approximate Time per Weeknight*
K	none
1	20–40 minutes (infrequently)
2	30–45 minutes (as needed)
3-4	45 minutes
5-6	45–60 minutes