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School districts across the country are banning homework, forbidding it on certain days or just not grading it, in response to parents who complain of overload and some experts who say too much can be detrimental.
Schools are responsive to parents opinions and to research.
We are a two teacher household, both in elementary (one lower grade, one upper). We assign very little homework, if any. Most of my colleagues assign none or very little. The homework that is given is typically a few problems in math. Through 6th grade in my district homework isn't counted towards the academic grade. We let parents know at the beginning of the year that any homework should be able to be completed independently and it should never be a struggle. If a child is struggling with homework we encourage parents to have their child stop and let us know, but again I really don't assign it so it hasn't been an issue.
My daughter's fifth grade teacher was literally a witch. She assigned hours of homework including over 50 long division problems a night. My daughter couldn't complete the work before bedtime. When she went into class the next day and the teacher would embarrass her for not finishing. My daughter's grades suffered as homework was 1/3 of the average.
What I didn't know was . . . her classmates' parents were doing the long division problem for their kids to rewrite in their notebooks.
Many parents complained to this teacher and to her principal. She just didn't care.
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Originally Posted by tnff
Nope you're not alone. But definitely an uphill fight because as soon as you disagree with the status quo, you get labeled as "anti education."
Schools are responsive to parents opinions and to research.
Yes, seriously. You're actually supporting my point. It makes the news precisely because it is so unusual, not because it is commonplace. If schools in general were responsive, and homework not overloaded in general, then there be no news about it.
I was a nerd back in the 60s--heck, I was carrying a briefcase in junior high. At the time, it was called "bookworm," although the nickname hung on me through school was "The Prof." (Many years later I learned my mother knew that and kind of liked it.)
And at that, the books in my bookcase were mostly books out of the school library for my leisure reading. Homework was rarely more than a couple of worksheets or the page of problems from the week of math to be turned in on Friday.
Even the physical weight of the books kids are hauling home every day today is five times more than we ever took home.
Would say that homework loads in 2000 were bigger than homework loads in 1976? If so, what do you think caused this?
No. Better question are students as prepared now for jobs as the ? No. Safe spaces don't work in a global economy. Need math and science to beat the asian and Russian workers. Teachers, kids and parents by large are not up to it.
No. Better question are students as prepared now for jobs as the ? No. Safe spaces don't work in a global economy. Need math and science to beat the asian and Russian workers. Teachers, kids and parents by large are not up to it.
Sadly, I'm afraid you are correct on all three counts.
No. Better question are students as prepared now for jobs as the ? No. Safe spaces don't work in a global economy. Need math and science to beat the asian and Russian workers. Teachers, kids and parents by large are not up to it.
But that would be another thread. You are welcome to start a thread about how well students are prepared if you'd like.
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