Posted on 09/22/2014 10:08:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A growing number of schools across the country are banning after-school assignments to lessen stress on children and families.
Some educators and parents say homework has become too time-consuming and support the lighter workload, but others are concerned it might hurt kids in the long run. …
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I feel a song coming on. Not sure how the lyrics line up, but I felt it coming on!
I was in beginning grade school exactly two generations ago, seeing that my grandchildren are there now. Well, my oldest grandchild is in first grade, and is getting “advanced addition” already. i.e. multiple digit addition. She hates it. I really don’t remember any school arithmetic before the middle grades, when we were learning long division, but my overall impression is that I had it easier. Could be it was just easy for me, but I really don’t think the schedule we were on was as pressing as it is today.
When I was in grade school and high school in the 50’s and early 60’s, I don’t remember being inundated with homework. I spent maybe an hour doing it, sometimes two plus hours if a term paper or project was due. I had plenty of time to relax and play with my neighborhood friends. We were always bouncing between each other’s houses, and the whole neighborhood of parents served as watchdogs for all of us kids. I had a great circle of friends, and none of us were overwhelmed with homework.
Today, in talking with my friend who has two girls now in college, children are really dumped on with homework. Add after school extra curricular activities, and the kids don’t have a lot of time nowadays for just play and relaxation. Add summer jobs or after school or weekend jobs on top of school and homework, and there isn’t a heck of a lot of downtime or kids. What I did do a lot of was read books. That was the key, IMO. Anyone who reads alot as a child will do pretty well later in life.
I’m torn about homework load. Each teacher gives out homework for their class, and by the time the day has ended, you can have homework from 4 plus teachers, each for X amount of time, and it adds up. None of the teachers know what the other teachers have assigned as homework, and it can become overwhelming.
I think schools should establish a policy of only so much homework allowed per teacher, so that they don’t end up making their students (and their parents) miserable, or disheartened. That’s when you start to see truancy, dropouts and/or bad attitudes. Especially if kids come from broken homes which so many do now. T’is a dilemma.
I didn’t have close to the level of homework my kids have. I turned out pretty successful due to being raised.right with a good work ethic and desire to do better
I was a pretty crappy student until I grew up.
The converse is my kids have crazy amounts of homework....
My 6th grader has as much as I had with 16 hours freshman college year
It's 'Tis
They want to eliminate homework so the lazy students and lazy parents do not continually fall behind the hard-working students and hard-working parents.
By the time I was in HS, I had homework an average of two hours a night,
My mom would look at it before I would go to bed, to make sure it was finished.
Every summer from 9th grade on, I took enrichment classes and SAT prep.
I hated it all, but now I’m grateful to mom and dad. I loved college, and I got a great education,
I still take adult Ed classes when I can at my local university, just to keep those gray cells working.
If I were the president of Mexico I would send in an invading force to conquer America without a single shot being fired. Oh wait...
If I were the president of Mexico I would send in an invading force to conquer America without a single shot being fired. Oh wait...
haha I did all my homework while in school / morning homework assignments while eating my lunch and the other homework during recess period ... I had more important things to do after school like making money cutting lawns , raking leaves for my neighbors, snow days where the best!! I could make more money in a day than i could raking leaves all fall
I majored in Journalism in college and in one class we had too buy the NY Slimes, read it daily and be tested every class on what was in it.
Now I think that was cruel punishment.
That being the case, answer me this one question that I am wont to ask, "What is the sine of forty five degrees, exactly ?" The answer to be expressed in words.
Well see, because in my mind, if you "got a great education" you would not hesitate to answer off the top of your head. So, not to put anything on you, but that's my view.
I had some experience with a heavy workload in elementary school in the 60s. The school singled out a few of us who tested high and put us in a separate class where they just buried us with homework.
What it taught me is an undying hatred of ‘educators’ who dream up programs like that.
Hmm, haven’t you heard of the home-schooling and unschooling movements?
I was too lazy to correct it. Somehow I just knew you would, lol. I blame fatigue. It’s as good a thing to blame it on as any. Better than blaming myself. I do notice though that you have ignored my rather lengthy response in order to find the needle in the haystack.
No wonder kids get dumber every day, with these kind of adults in charge!
Exactly. Homework destroys the entire family's evening as well.
That only postpones stress to the time when the lil darlins gotta find a job. When it becomes much worse.
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