After I read the article “Spreading Homework Out So Even Parents Have Some” it was suggested that I email Damion Frye to find out more information on the way he keeps parents involved. I sent Mr. Frye an email asking what he did about parents who did not have internet access. This is his response:
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| The students are given 10 minutes in class on Fridays to copy down the topic (or I pass it out to them if it is longer) and they begin their responses. They then, if the parent does not have access to a computer, give the topic and their response to their parent. The parent then writes their response down and sends it back in by the following Friday. Out of all my students, only 1 parent has informed me that they do not have an internet connection or access to the internet. This was actually the first year that I have done it online, it used to be where all the students and parents had to write their responses. However, since I respond to each student and parent I got to be too hard to handwrite all of my responses. So I justtype them up now and the conversation remains (paperless – for the most part) and online.
Feel free to ask any more questions!!! Take care.
Damion Frye
9th Grade World Lit
Montclair High School
100 Chestnut St.
Montclair NJ 07042
973-509-4004
dfrye@montclair.k12.nj.us
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
“The More Loving One” W.H. Auden
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