Almost no checking or help here. We have told him that as long as he does well (90%+), we are not going to micro-manage. This has been our attitude with all three from first homework on. If they have questions or see they are missing a major concept we are available. If they start to slip, we show them what they can do to learn it better and study for tests, but I am not going to spend hours on homework with them just to make sure they never miss a point.

For writing, our schools have started having virtually all witing and editing done at school to stop parents from being their childs' editor.