[Repetition and further study doesn’t improve performance?]
Practice makes perfect. The more that you practice the better you’ll be.
“Practice makes perfect. The more that you practice the better you’ll be.”
Not necessarily. Perfect practice makes perfect. Imperfect practice at best makes bad habits or is a waste of time.
One of the foremost jobs of a music teacher is teaching form and technique not just theory. If a child learns poor habits and reinforces them through practice they are a poor musician regardless of how much they practice.
Given that Common Core has such poor pedagogy and theory perhaps not practicing is a good thing.
Or the teacher could just want less grading
Not entirely correct. I had a wise HS teacher instill in me an insight which has stayed with me until this day.
"Perfect practice makes perfect."
At least an understanding and an aspiration of the perfect does. Practicing in a flawed way or with an incorrect technique, even if practiced incessantly, puts you on the wrong path, no matter how diligent you follow it.
“The more I practice, the luckier I get.” - Gary Player
My two middle school kids have more homework than I did in college.
It boils down to lazy teachers passing the buck onto parents.
I work all day too and I don’t want to do homework when I get home...exceptions for test study and projects.
And before I hear the whine from the tenured about teachers working their evenings....you chose to be a teacher...