Shelley List: We need this graceful, third-person, non-gender-specific pronoun!!!

Ruth E. Thaler-Carter: It should be possible to write around this: All children should bring their homework to class.

Paula Presley: NEVER use a plural pronoun for a singular noun. Better (depending on context): Children are expected to bring their homework to class.

Karen Powers: B is plain wrong and C is not right!

Alicia Rosov: Make it plural!

Maggie Pettersen: Or rewrite to be plural.

Jennifer German: I hate this and think it is sloppy but it is more concise than his or her and less PI [politically incorrect] than his...

John David Lamb: I side with Jacques Barzun who wrote forcibly on this issue in the first chapter of his new book

L. L. Thrasher: All children should bring their homework to class. Children should bring their homework to class. I'd prefer to avoid the issue.

Yocheved Golani: This nation is so locked into political correctness that I hesitate not to use this form.

Cathy Schlender: We usually try to rewrite the sentence to avoid this problem. The third option is definitely not acceptable.

John Cappelletti: I prefer to avoid this by writing the statement in the plural.

Elayne Cree : This is a tough one, since people almost always use option B in conversation. At one time the plural pronoun was the correct usage, according to one who studied English usage. Today's usage is the result of one Englishman who wrote that the possessive pronoun should agree with the subject.

Joe McGavin: We use plural whenever possible to avoid this. All children should bring their homework to class.

Christi: Why not change to plural---The children should bring their homework to class?

Jodi Lipson: We avoid sexist language and bad grammar at all costs. All children should bring their homework to class.

Dennis McCarthy: I'd choose D: All children should bring their homework to class. A is stilted and B is out. C is ok if you mix up the genders with later examples.

Charlotte Fox Luttrell: A is gramatically correct, a little awkward, but PC. B. is gramatically incorrect. C. is gramatically correct, but politically incorrect.

Paul Mulligan: Theirs is plural.

Mark H. Bloom: It depends on the audience.