Why don elementary classes have homework or weekly lessons/assignments?
Elementary students do not have homework because co-op classes supplement each family’s home education schedule. Elementary students gather at co-op for group activities and experiments. We would never presume to know what curriculum would be best for your child, but we do know what activities work best for a group of children. As a result, parents determine the lessons at home during the week, using the same text book as the co-op teacher or choosing other lessons based on the weekly co-op topic, or not. It is completely up to the parent. (Note that this is entirely different from high school.) Co-op is meant to lift the burdens of parents of high schoolers, not create more. Many families follow the curriculum of co-op for every subject, but some have their own course of study at home in addition to co-op. As a result, any homework from the co-op may conflict with elementary students’ regular schedule of courses at home, and they will have difficulty keeping up. We don’t want parents
