Posted on 10/26/2015 5:42:18 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
I applaud Mom. First graders shouldn’t have homework. Good for her, some parents refuse to be sheep.
I like that! I've always thought school was the place to do schoolwork. This is a very creative step.
Just say No to got schools.
I know. Kindergarten is practically High School these days. You know, in spirit. Originally it was Nursery School, essentially ... a garden for children.
I remember my own early grades fairly well. I was in second grade when I sought to demonstrate to my mother my ability to read by writing “Here Tippy Here” on a piece of paper, and reading it. I was upset when she laughed, and insisted upon completing my demonstration. That was circa 1955.
My kids were all A students and could do their homewrok in 5 minutes but some of the other socially disadvantaged kids took much longer. The teacher gave my kids extra so that all kids got the same “amount”.
When I figured out the scam I wrote the school and said no more.
Agreed about all of that except the 1st part. My “A”s” were mostly a lot of hard work, as in, working harder than most of my friends who were just as smart, but got B’s. I’ve seen the same in a lot of my relative’s children, too.
Granted, I’ve also known fellow students who could get A’s “easily”, but they were the true exceptions.
That last is a very good point. From somewhere, but at least partially my parents, I acquired a deep curiosity and desire to learn. It sometimes got me into trouble, though. Say, I had 2 weeks to get a paper written in high school. I’d start researching, and then would spend the next 12 evenings reading up on every other subject the original Encyclopedia Britannica article I’d started with touched on, and then the “related to the related”, and so on. About 8 pm the night B4 the paper was due, I’d realize I’d darn well better get focused, and would likely end up pulling an all-nighter...
What the heck kind of teachers allowed you to get away with not doing homework?
And thereby your kids missed the most important lessons of all.
Now it lasts all day and really seems to be a bit much for a five year old.
I am all for kids learning but they seem to pile it on in the first few years even pushing the kids into areas where abstract thought is required long before most have the ability.
They missed nothing but a load of worthless busy work.
I just don’t buy the business about kids being pushed too hard in school. Most Asian kids whose parents have immigrated here find school in the US easy, and generally run rings around their fellow US bred students, simply because of better work / study ethics.
As for whether the subject matter is correct for the age, in some cases you may have a good point. Then again, at age 6 I introduced my daughter to cubes (as in 3^3) and cubic space... Her toy blocks came in very handy! :-)
And thereby your kids missed the most important lessons of all.
I agree. I can keep students working for a solid 50 minutes with logical puzzles. Flipped classes are even better. I assign homework simply to get them busy at home: questions for a book they are reading at home. Francis Collins’ Language of God is perfect for college freshman who have never thought about God, creation, Big Bang, evolution, and miracles before. The students love it.
Studies show that healthy families have 5 common meals, 4 homework sessions, 3 sports activities, 1 church every week and 2 vacations a year for six days.
Yeah, I guess I was only thinking of my own experience. Point taken.
I had teachers give me B's when I was passing all the tests getting A's because they said I wasn't even trying.
Maybe they were just lying to me to keep me from feeling bad.
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Let me qualify that just a bit though...
If the teachers give all the kids so much homework that they have no free time at all, that’s not good. If the teachers give enough work, tailored to the students, that all have to work pretty hard for 1-2 hours, M-Th. evenings, I approve.
If the teacher(s) are assigning work that takes the students over 2 hrs. every evening to complete, the parent should talk to the teacher(s).
Conversely, I had a “home room” teacher in Jr. High whose policy was that he would never give a student less than a “C” if the student could demonstrate that he / she really was working hard to learn / develop a skill. That saved me in handwriting (cursive), because I just had terrible trouble with it. (I don’t know why - my Mom and Dad both had beautiful handwriting.) But I worked like heck, and eventually my handwriting actually was worth a “C”. Ditto for typing class. (Well, ok, maybe I deserved a C- in that one. I just don’t have great manual dexterity / finger coordination.)
I was rather relieved when I got to engineering school, and most everything (as on drawings) was printed or typed.
Later, I wanted to learn to play guitar, and learned I was truly deluded...
:-)
In college, it's laissez faire. I remember in physics lab once, because I went to physics lab, Oh yes!, and did the experiments too! ...the TA came around asking for lab write-ups. He passed me by remarking, "Oh, you don't do them." I was thinking, gosh, am I that predictable? I guess I was! But the write-ups were to me ridiculous, an offense. ... I do remember thinking that, however self-serving a sentiment it may have been. Anyway, I didn't do them.
I am recalling grade school homework feeling... punative. Mom often regrets sending her happy tow-headed little boy to government school... only to be abused by a coven of lesbian crones to the point that all childlike joy died.
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