I grew up in Catholic school and in and around good families. Then I taught in a Catholic prep school in a good neighborhood. -Sixth through tenth grade kids.
This teacher is living in a dream world.
Here’s my research. There are two parents for each kid. There is a lot of socializing and not a lot of class participation in at least one quarter of any class kids will look for and do the very least amount of work possible. They find that to be their life’s goal at that age. Parents will assist that effort in at least a quarter of any given class. Parents will not do what the teacher tells them to do for their students success in class in about a quarter of cases including getting the kid to class on time first period. They certainly do not take direction from teacher regarding family life, where the teacher has no business directing or commenting. Absenteeism is a problem. The busiest kids do the best. The kids in sports and scouts are the kids that score consistently higher on everything. Kids learn during their alone time with homework. A lot of the best performing students thrive on and depend on cheating. Serious studying for boys especially doesn’t happen until year two in college when they realize they’ll soon have to provide for a family or end up a loser therefore study habits are what high school teachers are to focus on. The material is secondary. Kids at puberty are normally breaking away from their parents. Spending more time with them at a teachers direction is not going to happen.
The middle and high school boys would take this direction and factor in more time for other selfish non scoop endeavors NOT yay! more time with family
My research shows some teachers lay on so much homework that they discourage learning, achievement and encourage cheating. Many if not most teachers favor certain kids and do so in light of the kids family position and how much they donate to the school and also how much the student helps that teacher have an easier job, and are not honest with themselves about this favoritism, and forgetting the real job of raising kids not to be schmoozers
Teachers can take themselves way to seriously like this one Parents don’t listen to the teacher for any more than five minutes any more than the student does
Twenty to thirty minutes of homework in a core class per day. No “did we have homework last night I didn’t know that” keeps them involved. Some of them will do the homework some will fudge it some won’t do it and their parents are un-reachable. The parents who show up are not the parents you need to see
But they will not spend more time with their kids over a direction from a teacher. Most will read this BS direction as the teacher doesn’t want to do any homework grading and my kids SAT scores are going to dive over a lazy teacher living in dreamland
Taught for many years and this statement is the exact truth.
15% of the people on the Forbes 400 list never completed college. Only 5% of them have doctoral degrees. I think there's a message there, too.
Our three kids went to Catholic grade school and high school. They got a lot of meaningful (not busy work) homework. They learned how to research and write very well. They blew away college and are all doing well. They are hard workers and their bosses and co-workers love them for their skills. They are happy.
They credit their early schooling for their success.
Today’s homework for a lot of kids is to fuss with theirs phones and computers alone in their rooms. They have never been pushed, which is why they are such snowflakes.