Three hours of homework would be nothing to Asian kids.
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I have always opposed homework. The school gets your kids most of the day and that is not enough for them?
My Daughter teaches at a Montessori school and she agrees with me. When she first began teaching at a regular school right out of college, she was named “teacher of the year”.
Who cares about the homework situation in Spain?
I hope she has a large basement.
If the time spent while at school was efficiently used to teach and study then there would be no need for homework. I think many teachers are shirking their duties by assigning homework. Keep the students hard at work while at school and then leave them alone when the final bell rings.
Kids here have a lot of homework, too, what with the condom bananas, learning their Islamic prayers, their global warming studies, etc.
I Afterschooled my kids, and they were years ahead of their grade levels. I was smart, I didn’t waste my time on anything other than reading and math (mostly math, teaching reading is breeze with phonics, but math still takes a few years to be ready for Calculus). They went to school (private) mainly because they wouldn’t study if I wasn’t around and my wife, being from the other side of the planet, really couldn’t help. School helped also socially and in filling in the other areas that I wasn’t covering.
Homework was a royal pain in the butt, particularly the TOTALLY USELESS “projects” that kept getting assigned. I wound up doing most of the projects, so they wouldn’t deter from learning math. Other homework was so pathetic that it almost seemed as if they were just trying to keep the kids ‘busy’, so they wouldn’t have time for friends or learning other important stuff (like working on cars).
It all worked out in the end for them, they did fine. But for most parents, the ones that put them on that big yellow bus thinking that a bunch of sex and drug crazy Gen-X’ers would actually teach them properly - maybe homework is better than just having them at home with their computers and smart phones spending endless hours on Facebook and playing video games.