[Mr Rogers]

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...

[Still Thinking]

They were sending KINDERGARTNER’S home with homework??! Oh, Good Lord. Idiots.

[precisionshootist]

Schools have kids for 7-8 hours a day. That's pretty much a full work day. There is no need for even high school kids to come home and have to do homework. What the heck did they study for 7 hours?

Homework should be a once or twice per semester event just to teach the concept of putting in extra time to accomplish a goal.

[Chode]

sight words... GRRRRRRRRR DAMN this whole word reading crap!!!

[onona]

All teachers, students, and parents should read the book "Brain Rules". An excellent study on how the brain develops and works, and how it develops and works best.

Example: Lectures should be done at home, and practice (homework) should be done at school under supervision by the teachers.

"Recess" and Physical Education should take place twice a day to keep the body moving.

Anyhow, short excerpts from a great read.

[latina4dubya]

Weekends became all about pushing him to finish his sight words.

yuck... we did exactly zero sight words in our homeschool... all reading was taught phonetically... seemed easier...

[Veggie Todd]

These kids shouldn’t have to do homework. After all, they need to be out shooting each other and stealing swisher sweets from convenience stores while pushing around the store clerk. Homework be racist!

[Vendome]

[RginTN]

Huh, I finished highschool in 1990 and always did my homework within an hour once I got home.

I doubt todays families spend family time together. Parents are too into themselves and their love lives to parent their child in the evenings.
Teens/children are on the internet and watching the Kardashians. Homework would be an improvement over that low info entertainment.

[NonValueAdded]

Our high schools have completely flipped the paradigm. Students do homework in the classroom and video lectures are to be watched at home.

[R. Scott]

It really is a daycare center.

[ExCTCitizen]

My kids is homeschooled so they are finished with school they know they are finished — no homework.

[BobL]

Since I NEVER let the schools determine the path of my kids’ education, I never cared about the homework they got. If it was a good assignment (fairly rare) they did it, if it was a stupid assignment, I did it for them.

I was too busy with making sure they learned math, INDEPENDENT OF THE SCHOOLS, to really care what went on there, nor did I have any trust in it, any trust at all.

[Cloverfarm]

Our kids do a lot of their homework at school, in homeroom.

At home we are often mighty busy on the farm and it’s hard to juggle everything. I’m glad they are only in 4-H and FFA, not band and sports, too.

[Gay State Conservative]

Japanese kids study 12 hours a day 6 days a week.I'll bet Chinese kids do the same.And those few American kids who actually manage to graduate from high school can't even read their own diplomas...because they're written in "cursive".

I thank God that I'll be in the grave soon.Things are gonna get *real* ugly here before too long.