No, I Won’t Assign Homework for Your Family Vacation

Tim Cavey
Teachers on Fire Magazine
4 min readFeb 22, 2020

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When homework comes along for the ride, no one wins.

Photo by Lena Kudryavtseva on Unsplash

You know the email from parents, don’t you?

Dear Mr. Cavey,

We wish to inform you that we will be taking our son out of school one week before spring break begins. We don’t want him to fall behind, so please let us know which assignments he will be missing and send along

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Tim Cavey
Teachers on Fire Magazine

Elementary Vice Principal and Teacher. Education YouTuber at Teachers on Fire. Big believer in Growth Mindset. EdTech should promote the 5 Cs. MEdL.