Homework is ridiculous. My 1st grader gets hw almost every night. Growing up I don’t remember having any until at least 4th/5th grade.
Meanwhile, South Korean parents secretly pay teachers to be HARDER on their children.
Developing a work ethic is too much White Privilege and TEA Party talk.
A good reason for private and/or home schooling. No more public school BS.
When I was in school, all years from 1991 to 2004, it wasn’t that bad. I’m guessing it probably got 100x as worse since I’ve been out of school.
These poor kids have no idea what it’s like to be able to go out and play with other kids when they’re out of school. Now, they’re all inside playing video games, using smart phones and tablets, developing multiple health problems.
When I was a kid, I didn’t play video games that much, because I preferred going outside.
I was always resistant to homework, and shirked it habitually. When I was a TA for freshman Physics, it relieved me that the homework load was light, and considered to be a study aid, with credit given for handing it in, ( although we corrected the answers. ) The lab assignments, far from requiring elaborate write-ups, were required to be completed in lab, in the student’s lab notebook which remained in the lab ( although the students were ALLOWED to return to the lab to complete the experiment, if they wished. )
Well, I still feel that the students are in school all day, so why can’t they do their larnin’ there, you know? I guess you’re going to have some homework, but it seems to turn into some status thing, that a course must have a heavy homework load to be taken seriously.
Kids shouldn’t have to learn anything. /s
What does that say when quality of education is going down yet homework hours are going up?
How do dads in the inner city feel about this?
We didn’t have TV until I was 11 so I had to learn to read. I didn’t go to college until I was 38, there wasn’t much I hadn’t already covered. If you read well and are curious education is automatic.
“Zach Glass, 16, who takes six Advanced Placement courses at the high school, spends an average of three hours a night on homework and often spends weekends and vacations hunched over his books.”
THREE HOURS????? Oh for crying out loud. No wonder this country is producing morons who can’t figure anything out. Boo hoo for this poor little boy having to study three hours a night.
never did homework. if the teacher couldn’t explain it in class it was worth knowin.
I used to teach in this district. Here is the real story. A a significant percentage of the students are Asian (mostly Korean) and you can bet the Asian parents are not complaining one bit about the homework. In fact, they often send their children to private tutoring schools on Saturday to give them a leg up. It’s the non-Asian parents who are complaining, angry that their children have to compete.