Ridiculous amounts of homework are one of my pet peeves. My youngest is now in 12th grade and doing 3-4 hours a day. I’m sure glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s...
Just another way to wrest control of children from their parents.
I was always anti-homework. In grade school I used to say, “I forgot to do it”, and I remember one time my sixth grade teacher called me on that, saying, “You mean you just didn’t do it.” I was like, “Hmmm, yeah, I guess so.” I never thought of it that way, you know? I was totally into the forgetting thing.
I have 2 seniors. I hate homework! I will be glad when they are done with school.
And, for all the hours of homework, I don't believe that today's children are better educated. When I was in elementary school, homework was studying for spelling tests and writing book reports, with an occasional mimeographed math worksheet. "Real" homework didn't start until middle school, but it wasn't anything like the amount of homework my kids had. Of course, back then, teachers spent the days actually teaching the various academic subjects. We didn't have any of the social issues type of units that kids are subjected to today.
I completely agree with you, it is bee ess. I had maybe 15-20 minutes of homework a night through high school and I had all As in college and went to law school.
It makes me upset to see my child so stressed about homework. I don’t believe in it.
Yeah and most of it is pointless BS like make a collage or some poster board crap that requires $$.
My freshman son has minimum of an hour of math every day, sometime lots more.