The homework debate
Hi you all, my name is Todd Cross, I am a high school special education teacher. This is a blog for a course at University of South Alabama, but anyone who finds this feel free to join in on the conversation. As a teacher of a self contained special education class with students with severe intellectual disabilities and behavior outbursts, I do not know what is going on in the general education settings. I spend all day in one room teaching high schoolers critical life skills such as to not bite people when they are mad. This is my first year in this kind of setting I absolutely love it, but I am 100% out of the loop, I do not know most of the school staff. So I am going to bring this discussion around to where I was last year. I taught reading intervention classes in a middle school. My middle school students were very irresponsible as most middle school students are. A huge issue I had was several kids failing because of homework not being completed. I want to know your thoughts on