AP English teacher Judith Smith, known by some students for a heavy workload in her courses, does not believe that assigning a lot of work makes a class accessible to only a segment of the student body. Pimentel, for one, might disagree with Smith s assessment. Making the grade Homework assignments can also be problematic for students who confront complex psychological family dynamics. A parent's high expectations may actually interfere with a student's learning. Parents sometimes find it difficult to encourage good work from their children without inducing unproductive stress.
Some parents even value their kids' grades more than their education.
Trumbower sometimes makes her students write papers in school because of a time when a parent did her child's assignment. She received a call from the student's mother, who was upset at the grade her own paper received. I had a rough draft hand-written by a parent once. Her son didn't care about the paper at all. Senior Kurosh Hashemi used to let his mother take responsibility for his work, but ever since he had to take over, his grades have dropped.