Faced with homework frustration, P.G. school takes different tack

In Beltsville, homework is a different story.

Robin Wiltison, the principal of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, was frustrated that parents were frustrated. Homework was a problem that took up the bulk of parent-teacher conferences, as mothers and fathers told Wiltison and teachers that their children would forget their homework and they, the parents, often had no idea their kids had any assigned.