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Would it be wrong to do some of difficult child's homework for him?
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<blockquote data-quote="Californiablonde" data-source="post: 534779" data-attributes="member: 2196"><p>Okay so here's what happened last night: When we got home and I told difficult child he needed to start typing his paper right away after dinner, he freaked. Told me absolutely no way was he going to re do all that work three times. He told me that it would probably be okay to just turn in the written work without typing it. I told him absolutely no way is it okay for him to skip the typing part. I just spoke with the teacher a couple of days ago and confirmed that the assignment must be typed out also. </p><p></p><p>difficult child already hand wrote the report two times, once as a rough draft and once as a final draft. I really don't think it was necessary to have all the kids write the work twice and then have to type it as well. The whole report was seven paragraphs. That means difficult child had to write out fourteen paragraphs total. Way too much for a fifth grader, in my opinion. Considering that difficult child just learned the keyboard this year and his typing skills aren't the greatest, I really did feel bad for him. It's a lot of work for even a easy child none the less a difficult child so I offered to type it for him. I can type pretty fast so I knew the whole assignment wouldn't take me any longer than a half hour, if that. I got through one paragraph then our computer froze! I couldn't get it to work again so I just quit and told difficult child we would have to type out the rest over the weekend ("we" meaning me.) </p><p></p><p>Suddenly difficult child starts worrying about the grade. All this time he couldn't care less about the whole darn thing and now he's worried the teacher is not going to accept the late work. Told difficult child sorry, there was nothing I could do. I was not about to stay awake late at night to finish it. My Geodon was already kicking in and I couldn't stay awake any longer and wasn't about to jeopardize a good night's sleep. I emailed the teacher this morning and asked her if it would be okay for "him" to type it all out this weekend and email it to her by Tuesday. So far she has not responded. Maybe she won't accept it late. Maybe he will get a zero. I don't know at this point. All I know is I tried.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Californiablonde, post: 534779, member: 2196"] Okay so here's what happened last night: When we got home and I told difficult child he needed to start typing his paper right away after dinner, he freaked. Told me absolutely no way was he going to re do all that work three times. He told me that it would probably be okay to just turn in the written work without typing it. I told him absolutely no way is it okay for him to skip the typing part. I just spoke with the teacher a couple of days ago and confirmed that the assignment must be typed out also. difficult child already hand wrote the report two times, once as a rough draft and once as a final draft. I really don't think it was necessary to have all the kids write the work twice and then have to type it as well. The whole report was seven paragraphs. That means difficult child had to write out fourteen paragraphs total. Way too much for a fifth grader, in my opinion. Considering that difficult child just learned the keyboard this year and his typing skills aren't the greatest, I really did feel bad for him. It's a lot of work for even a easy child none the less a difficult child so I offered to type it for him. I can type pretty fast so I knew the whole assignment wouldn't take me any longer than a half hour, if that. I got through one paragraph then our computer froze! I couldn't get it to work again so I just quit and told difficult child we would have to type out the rest over the weekend ("we" meaning me.) Suddenly difficult child starts worrying about the grade. All this time he couldn't care less about the whole darn thing and now he's worried the teacher is not going to accept the late work. Told difficult child sorry, there was nothing I could do. I was not about to stay awake late at night to finish it. My Geodon was already kicking in and I couldn't stay awake any longer and wasn't about to jeopardize a good night's sleep. I emailed the teacher this morning and asked her if it would be okay for "him" to type it all out this weekend and email it to her by Tuesday. So far she has not responded. Maybe she won't accept it late. Maybe he will get a zero. I don't know at this point. All I know is I tried. [/QUOTE]
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