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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Why even bother sending them to school. Just think how much school must stress them out.
America 2014: Nation of wimps.
The real reason to do this so that parents do not see the curriculum
It lowers the stress of the leftist administrators
Boy that is the truth.
The new common core math is an abortion and not in the way that the Leftists view abortion.
So Stupid! Makes kids NOT want to get involved in math.
GOOD!!!!!!
Homework has been rising exponentially for decades because teachers don’t TEACH anymore.
Will this improve our international competitiveness?
Help to create students ready for quality work in good jobs?
I recently had a chance conversation with a teacher who believed that making a check mark beside incorrect answers or, and he was quite vehement and smug on this next point, use of a red pen was only to demean the child. I explained that without a metric there is no way to measure the child’s knowledge and no way to measure the instructors success at conveying knowledge. An incorrect answer is as much a measure of the child as the instructor. He did not agree and in fact was brimming with hostility, even before our conversation (he was mouthing off to some other person, which is what made me chime in).
Now there’s this story about prohibiting homework to lessen stress.
No homework. No incorrect answers. Hand wringing over stress and marking an incorrect answer, these kids are going to become psycho-losers AND IT’S THE TEACHERS’ FAULT.
Abolish government schools.
“homework has become too time-consuming”
Going to work is time-consuming too.
Why didn’t someone think of this before?
Now we can all do what we want to do.
And all will automatically pass the SAT.
Homework taught me to be responsible and get things done on time.
The SAT is a joke now.
I’ll be frank, I don’t see how kids can learn without HW. OTOH, life has changed since I was young. We got home at about 4, had time to relax and have a snack with Mom before Dad got home for dinner with the family. Today’s child sometimes doesn’t get home until 6 or later while Mom is rushing around like crazy because she just got home, no one has any time to unwind or spend any time together.
If the kids are on Ritalin (and too many are) they are “sundowning” often a tough time - I will say here all this is one of the reasons I went to homeschooling and took control of my family life.
When I was a TA for freshman physics, I wielded the big red X on homework assignments with a purpose, knowing that many of the recipients would come back to me with, "Why did you give me a big red X?" ... "Well, you see ..."
BTW, they got points for handing in the assignment! There was no credit subtraction, just a BIG RED X.
An hour a day should be enough to have Johnny learn the paltry material he is responsible for in each subject area. But, since teachers don’t teach anything in the classroom and don’t do their job, its up to the parents to have well educated children. Teachers are basically day care.
A popular theory on FR is that the public school day is filled up with liberal indoctrination and that is why they can't teach as much of the basics during the school day as before and need to assign so much homework. But, having a child in public school, it appears to me that the actual major reason must be something else.
If you took a look at the old textbooks, you’d find that at the same grade level, students were learning much more advanced material even a generation or two ago.
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