Posted on 01/01/2025 6:10:38 AM PST by Libloather
(KTXL) — Many Californians can look back at their time growing up and remember spending hours after school bogged down in homework, but one lawmaker hopes to change that for the next generation.
When the bell rings and the school day is over, for students like Sofia Johnson, the day is nowhere near over. The sixth-grader blames that on hours spent doing homework.
“Homework is exhausting. It’s overwhelming,” Johnson said. “It’s depressing that my whole day from when I wake up to when I go to bed is taken up doing school work.”
That’s why Johnson’s mother, assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-Santa Clara) says she authored AB 2999, also known as “The Healthy Homework Act.” It was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this year to take effect in 2025.
The legislation will not ban homework, but it formally encourages local school boards and educational agencies to establish homework policies that consider impacts on students’ physical and mental health all with input from parents, teachers, and students themselves.
“It’s addressing homework, which is the top stressor for kids,” Schiavo said. “It’s often number one.”
The new law comes as a survey of more than 300,000 American students conducted by Stanford University and the nonprofit organization Challenge Success found that 45% of students say workload and homework are their number one source of stress. The average time spent on homework each night was 2.5 hours across the 13,000 California high school students who took the survey.
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Good point!
Dear California Lawmakers. Let boys be boys and girls be girls. Boys need to rough house and girls just need relationships. Things were good in the 60-80s until you started grooming them.
seems a shame that far too many can’t see exactly why vivek and Elon are right about the typical young American not being educationally prepared for the modern workforce. the atypical are those kids that are inherently smart and any homework assigned is only marginally helpful so kudos to home schoolers. most need to learn the value of assigned homework and if the parents of these kids are against it then they have relegated their own kids to a bleak employment future. “only those willing to learn more than what the teacher is teaching can truly excell in business and in life” L.Star. every adult knows that getting a higher and better paying position in any industry is by self-education and THAT, my friends, is where “Homework skills” come in very handy. like most here I hated homework but did it anyway. when I went into the construction industry, where it’s a “dog eat dog” fight for any management position, the real value of homework skills gave me the edge to edge out so many others. I’m just lucky though because my nature is to excell at anything I do and homework was and still is the key. signed: retired and still learning.
One problem is that schools are continually increasing the c
junk course load and eliminating study halls. When I was a kid, because of study halls, each student did at least two hours homework/day.
Kids need rest just like adults do. Long term, when students are assigned more work than they can realistically do, they slack-off and start to flunk their tests. Since everyone can’t be seen as flunking, the schools resort to grade inflation to avoid outraged parents.
You learn from all that homework.
My dad and mom both pushed me to study hard and work on schoolwork a few hours each day after school. And my dad was insistent that I take typing 1 and 2. I did not want to as I never thought I would need to type. Of course, this was long before personal computers. As I look back, those two typing classes were the most valuable classes I had in high school, college and law school. Because I’m on a computer several hours each day typing briefs, reports, or my weekly newspaper article. And as to homework, when I was in college and then law school, I was usually doing homework until after midnight every single day, including weekends. But I wasn’t “stressed.” It was the price I and those in my generation paid to have a meaningful career.
Just more dumbing down USA students so they can’t compete with the the rest of the world’s STEM students. And then are these same jerks lamenting because Musk wants to open up H-1B visas for high skilled STEM folks?
BOOKMARK
Next will be pass fail grading only, so teachers don’t have to grade anything with comments.public school is turning intodaycare for juvenile delinquents and a slush fund for Democrat donors.
Welcome to the real world.
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You see stuff like this, and it makes Musk & Ramaswamy’s argument!
There were several things that bothered me about homework for my kids:
1. Stupid assignments like dioramas or other art projects for non-art classes.
2. Homework that had poorly written/conflicting instructions from the teacher.
3. Make work assignments that didn’t help reinforce the classwork.
4. Assignments that would clearly take more than one hour per night for a particular class.
Otherwise, I was okay with several hours of homework for my kids.
Ditto
Dogs will appreciate a better diet.
The problem is that the good K-12 teachers get driven out early. Lots of YouTube videos documenting this. The ones who are left are just collecting a paycheck and marking time to retirement. It does not help that many of the students (and parents) are hostile to learning. Also, there is the race card that could ruin their careers. School policy may also all but prohibit the failing of children.
It also does not help that Education schools at unversities are leftist indoctrination centers on steroids.
That’s pretty well said. I was thinking too that Vivek wasn’t wrong in his criticism of our current educational system.
I think 2.5 hours is what I did. 2 hours of that was English — we read 4 npvels per quarter.
I can’t say it helped me. The kids who got Cliffs Notes got as good a grade (if not better) than I did.
Bingo. I remember my kids having homework from a teacher who used her time to watch movies in class. So parents had to teach at home.
“those two typing classes were the most valuable classes”
Same here. I hated those classes.
I had no clue that I would be using it on anything but typewriters and I kept saying “This is a waste of time. Secretaries do the typing in offices and I will have a secretary to do my typing.”
Lol.
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