God forbid that this generation of kids has to do anything like work for something.
Yeah, lets reduce stress on kids and treat them like fragile marshmallows. That is sure to make them better, smarter adults. [/s]
Methinks this is mostly about making it easier for teachers.
And here in the US many of our high school "graduates" can't even read their diplomas...even when they're in English.
Figures. The dumber the children are, the higher the number of applicants for future journalism and studies majors.
I did all my homework in other classes at school.
2.5 hours spent on homework a night? By high school students? In California? I’m skeptical.
Putting that aside, that’s probably more than I seem to recall back in Ye Olden Days, long before the modern edjookrats starting messing with the traditional curriculum.
I know that there are some hothouse environments in which students routinely put in those kinds of hours, and I know that in China and Japan, parents can drive their kids to suicide.
And I know that aspiring NBA players spend more time on the playground working at their sport than any students who are not clinically on the spectrum do at math or history or Latin. So do kids with a passion for dance or music — and I don’t mean the aspiring hip hop artists whose idea of practice is to get stoned and riff in the garage; I mean the kids who aspire to be world class on the piano or violin or French horn.
Two and a half hours for homework for the average student in California high schools? Well ... it may be appropriate for the serious students who are AP-everything and on track to have half their college credits banked before they graduate high school, but the kids headed for the skilled trades, most office jobs, most of the professions? I dunno.
But bottom line: my underlying thought is that if California students were spending more than 30 minutes a day during regular school hours doing serious academic work, this wouldn’t be needed.
This may be a matter of the public schools defaulting on what they are supposed to be doing, and then sending their kids home to learn on their own. Waste eight hours a day in school, and then go home and homeschool to make up the difference.
Poor Sofia......all that homework is probably cutting into her time to make TikTok videos........
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.
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.
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?
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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.
Dogs will appreciate a better diet.
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.