Posted on 10/26/2015 5:42:18 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Amy Clipston had a request that was a new one for her daughter's first-grade teacher.
Many parents had marched in to demand that their children, even those who couldn't tie their shoes yet, get more homework. Clipston was the first to request the opposite - that her daughter opt out of homework altogether.
"I felt my child was doing quite fine in school," said Clipston, a chemist with three children, noting that her daughter's schoolday in the highly competitive Lower Merion School District was 61/2 hours, with a 20-minute recess. "I felt 10 to 20 minutes of homework a night was not accomplishing anything."
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pull the kid out of the government school and make all of the schoolwork into homework.
I said “no to homework”. My teachers said YES!! They won or I was history.
The sum total of stupid Americans making stupider Americans
Did you see the latest on the kardashians ?
We’re sinking deeper into the sink hole. No doubt about it.
Cross pollination....
Get the parents involved in helping (insert Common Core logic here) and drag both of them into the labyrinth that crap represents...
Plus now the Educational control has reached into your home mandating less time as family and more to learning what the state wants you to learn
As a high school business and marketing teacher, I very rarely assign homework. If I do it is to watch a documentary on accounting or business ethics or take pictures of a product display that will be discussed in class. My classes are elective and will be put off to last then given a half-assed effort, so I just don’t bother. I kick their asses for the 85 minutes that I have them.
We have an upper level math teacher who “flips his classroom”. He creates a 15 to 20 minute video where he explains and shows students how to do a new math problem - to watch it is the homework. Then his class period is to do a bunch of problems on what they learned in the video where he is there for assistance.
Do what I did. Go to the public library after school and do the homework there. Lots of reference materials, a nice quiet place to concentrate without distractions of TV. The 20 minutes will accomplish a lot.
Homework should be given for a reason.
Properly planned and executed, it’s like practicing between music lessons, sports practices, and the like - that’s how you get good. Poorly thought out, homework is just busywork that the kids fake their way through and the teacher checks off as done without reading.
I’m a fan of good homework, but I hate stupid assignments.
Once they hit high-school, college-bound students had better be doing homework.
It WILL be expected in college, and if they haven’t developed the study habits to do the homework, they will fall behind. In many classes, it will be a significant part of their grade.
I was able to do most of my homework in high school DURING class (sometimes the previous one before it was due). I didn’t have to “study” for tests: I could review the material in 10-15 minutes and ace tests.
I couldn’t get away with it in college, and I suffered greatly until I developed better habits.
>>We have an upper level math teacher who “flips his classroom”. He creates a 15 to 20 minute video where he explains and shows students how to do a new math problem - to watch it is the homework. Then his class period is to do a bunch of problems on what they learned in the video where he is there for assistance.<<
That sounds like fun! Good teaching method!
I plan on being a teacher when I retire. That sounds like a great technique. Thank your colleague for me :)
“I felt my child was doing quite fine in school,” said Clipston
oh dear, this is the kind of parent who raise little psychopaths. You know, the parent who has a child who hits but never corrects the child.
>>why do homework when you have Google?<<
How does one discern truth from falsehood?
Learning is about discerning.
in a way i agree, if your child is an A+/A student, homework might simply be busy work where the time could be better spent on classes they aren't doing A work in... if they are an A student across the board, let them use the time as the parents/students see fit
In this day and age, homework is busywork. Spend 2 hours making a macaroni MLK portrait, etc. the schools do this to focus blame elsewhere. Most kids do to school over 40 hours a week. 730 to 4 is common. Then if they are in sports or choir or debate etc, they begin a few hours of wasteful homework at 7.
If you have someone as a captive audience for 40 hours a week and cannot educate them without monopolizing the family all night, something is wrong.
Homework should be rare and important. Not propaganda, not time wastes, not art.
Amy Clipston does not understand how the brain works.
You did that as a first grader?
This is a serious problem, actually. Each year of school adds more and more homework to the schedule. 20 minutes in first grade, and by the time a child hits high school it is a ‘mere’ 30 to 40 minutes per class. So after sitting through 6 periods of class time during the day (7+ hours) the kids have to go home and spend another 3 to 4 hours of homework at night.
And guess what? It isn’t working.
Time to do a top to bottom review of how we are teaching kids.
If they are an A student, they can do the homework in 5 minutes.
The point of any piece of homework is that new concepts must be ‘input’ to the brain at least three times, or they don’t stay.
The point of all homework is the ‘discipline’ of sticking to doing a task and completing it.
This is more important, in the long run, than any of the individual assignments.
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