[Brian Griffin]

“dealing with homework”

The purpose of homework should be to reinforce what was learned.

It should not be stressful since stress blocks learning almost 100%.

For third graders, probably 15 minutes is enough. By high school, about an hour is all that should ever be required.

[Yaelle]

Dennis Prager, who just turned 70, said that when he was younger, he simply refused to do any homework. He was very bright I’m sure, so somehow they didn’t fail him on this behalf. But he claims it’s why he now can conduct orchestras. He spent his afternoons learning music instead.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The purpose of homework should be to reinforce what was learned.

It should not be stressful since stress blocks learning almost 100%.

For third graders, probably 15 minutes is enough. By high school, about an hour is all that should ever be required.

Susan Bauer asserts that homework in primary school has not been shown to be useful, and should be discontinued. When you figure that four hours per day of homeschooling is all it takes, an hour of homework on top of a 6 hour school day (plus commute) seems kind of exorbitant, doesn’t it?

And if you take seriously the Caplan critique of the actual utility of what is taught in schools (he says that the problem is not that “Them as can, does - them that can’t, teaches” but precisely that what teachers are teaching is what they can do. And only that) . . .

. . . and then there is the Khan Academy theory that students should view youTube lecture videos after school, in lieu of homework - and that what would otherwise have been “homework” should be done in the classroom. You gotta admit, that would sure look good to any parent who found themselves hassled by the need to get her/his child to do homework which is couched in Common Core terms instead of English.