If teachers did their jobs, kids wouldn’t have 2-3 hours of homework every night in elementary school and 5-8 in high school. Parents are NOT 100% of the problem.
Teachers need to teach academics not social justice.
If teachers did their jobs, kids wouldn’t have 2-3 hours of homework every night in elementary school and 5-8 in high school. Parents are NOT 100% of the problem.
Teachers need to teach academics not social justice.
Exactly right. Homework is the teachers outsourcing their own responsiblities to the parents.
I totally agree.
My 3rd and 4th grader have way too much homework. They’ve already had an 8 hour day, and then 2-3 hours more?
I’ve pushed back on some of the assignments but most of it they are stuck with.
I totally agree.
My 3rd and 4th grader have way too much homework. They’ve already had an 8 hour day, and then 2-3 hours more?
I’ve pushed back on some of the assignments but most of it they are stuck with.
I don’t think parents should leave the teachers alone. They only see a little bit of the child, and they don’t spend much one-on-one time with the children like parents do.
I have a special needs daughter, and she was having problems that were not being addressed during school.
In k-3, She had so much difficulty writing. She could memorize how to spell words, but she couldn’t sound them out. No one was addressing these issues.
When I told the speech therapist at school that it seemed like she had a hearing problem, the speech therapist said I was creating problems.
When I talked to the principal and told him she was always tired and couldn’t get out of bed in the mornings. She was falling apart and having terrible tantrums after school, the principal said I was crazy.
The all knew she had a brain injury. Finally, we had an independent evaluation, and found out that she had auditory processing problems that included being able to remember what people tell you and being able to hear the sounds in a word.
Then she had a grand mal seizure, and we found out she was having lots of abnormal spiking all throughout the day, but especially at night. She also had a heart arrhythmia that was worse at night.
Once she got put on anti-seizure medication, she stopped having the strange tantrums and she was able to wake in the mornings.
You got that right with the homework. My kids are homeschooled and my 6th grader can get his work done in 3hrs if he kicks butt. So much wasted time in school, one of the things that use to drive me crazy when I was there.
Ain’t that the truth. But ya’ gotta figure it’s a union mentality thing, and only so much can be taught within the 7 hour school day.
Have you seen KhanAcademy.org?Khan has the lectures available gratis, online - just add "homework" feedback. There's a school which uses his lectures as homework, and has the students interacting with the teacher and with each other to do the examples necessary to get the student up to speed. So the teacher isn't giving the same lecture over and over to different classes, and the student can listen to the lecture at his own pace. He can pause, and rewind, as needed.
Very interesting approach.
Yes indeed... and in order to teach academics effectively, teachers need to be able to maintain discipline and order in the classroom. School boards, parents, and the courts have taken this ability away from teachers, and therefore the whole system is fatally flawed from the beginning...
...which is why we homeschool. There's no bull$h!t bad behavior in our school. The student/teacher ratio of no more than 4:1 helps a great deal in this regard. It also helps (in probably a dozen different ways) that the Mom and the Teacher are one and the same.