Didn’t they know, homework is racist? /sarcasm
But they don’t give up on indoctrination.
Maybe years and years and years of telling kids “You can turn it in later...just get it to me before the school year ends” and “You did poorly on the test? No problem, I’ll give you a make-up test” have taught the kids some important lessons?
Like performance doesn’t matter, timeliness doesn’t matter, and nobody gives a sh!t.
Union rules?
The solution, says Karen?
Pour MORE money into public schools and teachers’ unions.
Why would it be fair for a teacher to spend 80% of their time on 20% of the students?
The valdictorian of my high school class of 1972, went on to get a business degree in college in three years. Came back to our small town work as a bookkeeper until he recently retired.
He would be the first to tell you that on his job he never used the algebra, geometry, chemistry, and biology he excelled at in high school.
I taught high school for one year, for a teacher that was out on maternity leave.
I realized I could read the entire textbook myself in a weekend. This was the curriculum for the entire year.
So, since I had them 3 days a week I reviewed and explained the material the first day. We worked the homework problems the second day, the 3rd day was a test.
They all got good grades, because I didn’t rely on them going away to learn it on their own.
It worked for me. (Earth Science, 9th grade)
Don’t, like, try to teach her, like, English.
Privileged families. IOW married parents. Working parents. Parents who graduated high school maybe even college so value education
I helped my daughter through her math difficulties by sitting and working every problem with her
GIVE ME A FAT BREAK! I grew up poor as dirt and I did my homework. I am sick and tired of this 'poor' not being able to do stuff like HOMEWORK....................
The article works from the assumption that "fairness" is the most important outcome.
It is not the most important outcome.
The most important outcome is basic literacy and competence.
It may be even more important to maximize the education of the most talented with math and science and ability to focus on problems: those are the small percentage who move us forward.
Capitalism does a great deal to reward the productive, which is why it is so wildly successful.
Attacking the problem by encouraging stable families is another way to improve the outcomes.
Not an issue of equality, an issue of effort and success. We all are not born with the capacity to an I.Q. over 150, and that only covers certain topics. We have two sides of the brain. One covers facts the other creativity. People are not equally as strong in both sides. Some people can afford Harvard or Princeton. Some are looking for a job right out of high school.
So as cited by Amelga (2012) notes that 93% of middle school students aim to attend college, but only 44% enroll eventually, and only 26% graduate. But as for preparation, high schools appear to be doing a decent job of preparing students for success in college as about four out of every five respondents feel their high schools properly prepared them. Grand Canyon University’s (GCU) survey shows average preparedness level on a 0-10 scale is 7.1. (GCU, 2021) But it is equally displayed about the attitude of students, teachers, administrations, and parents that push a student across the line to success. And that’s where it fails or succeeds.
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Most schools have some kind of tutoring program, where the student can get help outside of class time. That means the student will have to sacrifice some of their own free time to spend going over problem topics. Often the tutors are older students who are volunteering their time to sit in a study hall corner, going by a schedule, being there to help whoever needs it. Some effort must come from the student himself before anything really changes.
Not surprising.
Back in the 70's they began to teach math in a new way, in other words the most confusing mess you ever saw. I know because I was one of the kids they experimented on. Division left me in tears.
And then my dad asked me what the problem was and taught me how to divide in a single evening. It was simple, no guess work and you got the right answer every time as long as you knew your times tables and subtracted correctly.
I went to school the next day and flew through the work sheet. And got a zero because I had the right answer but had not used the hot mess of a guessing method.
The goal was not to teach me how to do division but to make me jump through nonsensical hoops.
Once again my dad came to the rescue. He went down to the school and had a few words with them. Upshot was that I was taken out of that school and they home schooled me for the few months we were there.
If the parents are having to "help" the kids with homework the teachers are not doing their jobs. At all.
Let's outlaw homework then. And also have SWAT teams from the school hunt down parents who sneak out and buy workbooks for their kids to unfairly do homework on their own. The Handicapper General Diana Moon Glampers demands complete equality
I was exhausted re-teaching my kids everything every night. And also, since they were quietly, well-behavedly struggling, they got overlooked.
Schools make a lot of noise about intervening and rescuing struggling kids ... but it’s just noise.
In HS I did my homework at school. Home life wasn’t fun. Plus I had to go surfing every day...and smoke a joint.
I was a much better student in college. Got my ya-ya’s out in HS.
It’s the phones.
Of course there are advantages and disadvantages to a child’s performance related to family structure. Life decisions of the parents have effects on the children. That’s why responsible parents who did all the responsible things (take education seriously, were stably employed before marriage and children, etc.), have kids that do better. That’s why such behavior was encouraged (now it’s disparaged as “acting White”). Test scores are the only real measure of learning so screwing around with grades based on family structure doesn’t change the fact that the kid is poorly educated. It’s just another affirmative action sham designed to hide the social malignancy.