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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I for one don’t see any evidence that kids are getting too smart.
I’ve seen shows on YouTube where they ask students at “top” schools like Harvard basic questions and they fail miserably, at least the ones they show. They ask things like:
“How much is 3x3x3” and get wrong answers. If they ask, “How much is 3 cubed” they usually get blank stares.
“How many states are there?” Many don’t know.
“Name a country in South America”. They don’t know.
Yeah. If you force kids to do homework, they will end up self sufficient and that is a racist threat to the leftist nanny state!
Hey, just let them have a degree. One better, add a college degree that they identify with. I’m sure they’ll obtain great jobs and their employers will be overjoyed with their lack of knowledge.
A survey of one. A lunatic democrat assembly person with a different last name than her daughter felt sorry for her daughter getting homework and got a law passed that impacts EVERYONE. California is an insane asylum.
ROTFL!!! What fun is school if they are going to make you do “homework”? Poor little sugar plums. “Homework is tough”. It takes away a lot of your cellphone pokin’ time.
These are the jerks who in the future will walk up to a counter to pay for something and just pull a hand full of money out of their pocket and tell the clerk to take what they need.
I take issue with the word marshmallows. Marshmallows are resilient and bounce back when put under stress. How about fragile little crystal figurines? So precious..../s
i am so glad i am in my mid 70s and won’t be around when these clueless darlings try to run stuff. OMG let’s not do anything stressful. I think anybody that remains in Calif deserves what they will get. Newscum is outlawing gas stoves, gas heaters, gas water heaters. How is Burger King going to cook flame broiled with no gas. These people are textbook shoot yourselves in the foot!
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The sort of students who gravitate toward STEM subjects have never accomplished anything because of what they learned in high school. They are highly motivated and dig out subject matter all on their own.
Blaming high school for mediocre performance is a cover-up for the lazy.
Raising lazy, obese, ignorant blobs.
I watched part of the Sun Bowl game yesterday.
The Louisville marching band and cheer sections had many, many near morbidly obese members in it. Male and female.
A most unhealthy spectacle. What are the young folks in Kentucky eating? Wait till their basal metabolic rate starts declining at about age 25.
More like shoot themselves in the head...pure societal suicide under the guide of “progressiveism”
School is stressful.
No normal kid enjoys most of it.
Classes nor homework.
But necessary.
Good teachers are a blessing.
Bad teachers help kids to learn how to survive bad teachers,
in preparation for having bad managers/bosses later in their working life.
A problem in California is Dem laws preventing teachers from effectively dealing with disruptive students.
...and those are the ones who are outside marching every day!
I too kept telling my dad that typing class was a waste of time. For the same reason as you. “I will have a secretary to do the typing.” But typing turned out to be the most important skill I learned. And even though I have two secretaries, I do all my typing. lol.
Didn’t think about that....good point.
Even some of the lineman are becoming blobs. Man!
WE had flash cards for math when I was growing up.
BEFORE we got to 1st grade, we knew our numbers & colors....
No matter California students have about the lowest test scores in the country anyway.
Besides school interrupts with getting stoned anyway.
They can always get a job at fast food joints for $20.00 an hour anyway.
Seems like some of the necessity for homework was to learn unimportant subjects or sometimes certain subject that some kids just didn’t begin to understand. The trick was to (if possible) pick subjects that were really interesting or at least ones you understood well & could pass with the least work.
When the bell rings and the school day is over, for students like 26 year old 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.
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