Posted on 08/23/2016 3:43:43 AM PDT by Zakeet
A teacher in Fort Worth has gone viral after she sent home a note to parents outlining her new homework policy for the year.
In the note, Mrs. Brandy Young says, "After much research this summer, I am trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this year."
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The note ends: "Research has been unable to prove that homework improves student performance. Rather, I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child early to bed."
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When I was in grade school, I don’t remember having homework each night.
I attended school in a more rural area and got my degree, complete with excellent grades.
Learning cursive handwriting is no longer required in many elementary and middle schools. Don’t know about high schools.
Eating dinner as a family, spending time together as she advocates is exactly what kids need.
I concur.. The less time spent sucking up the government programing the better off the kids are going to be....
I grew up in Catholic school and in and around good families. Then I taught in a Catholic prep school in a good neighborhood. -Sixth through tenth grade kids.
This teacher is living in a dream world.
Here’s my research. There are two parents for each kid. There is a lot of socializing and not a lot of class participation in at least one quarter of any class kids will look for and do the very least amount of work possible. They find that to be their life’s goal at that age. Parents will assist that effort in at least a quarter of any given class. Parents will not do what the teacher tells them to do for their students success in class in about a quarter of cases including getting the kid to class on time first period. They certainly do not take direction from teacher regarding family life, where the teacher has no business directing or commenting. Absenteeism is a problem. The busiest kids do the best. The kids in sports and scouts are the kids that score consistently higher on everything. Kids learn during their alone time with homework. A lot of the best performing students thrive on and depend on cheating. Serious studying for boys especially doesn’t happen until year two in college when they realize they’ll soon have to provide for a family or end up a loser therefore study habits are what high school teachers are to focus on. The material is secondary. Kids at puberty are normally breaking away from their parents. Spending more time with them at a teachers direction is not going to happen.
The middle and high school boys would take this direction and factor in more time for other selfish non scoop endeavors NOT yay! more time with family
My research shows some teachers lay on so much homework that they discourage learning, achievement and encourage cheating. Many if not most teachers favor certain kids and do so in light of the kids family position and how much they donate to the school and also how much the student helps that teacher have an easier job, and are not honest with themselves about this favoritism, and forgetting the real job of raising kids not to be schmoozers
Teachers can take themselves way to seriously like this one Parents don’t listen to the teacher for any more than five minutes any more than the student does
Twenty to thirty minutes of homework in a core class per day. No “did we have homework last night I didn’t know that” keeps them involved. Some of them will do the homework some will fudge it some won’t do it and their parents are un-reachable. The parents who show up are not the parents you need to see
But they will not spend more time with their kids over a direction from a teacher. Most will read this BS direction as the teacher doesn’t want to do any homework grading and my kids SAT scores are going to dive over a lazy teacher living in dreamland
It will be very interesting to see the eventual comparison between students who DO HAVE homework and those who do not.
The teacher in the lead story is suggesting that good parenting is healthier than having kids do homework. As I see it, in today’s world the idea is good but the reality is that parents are too busy either making a living or just not interested in raising their kids. Good parenting and homework need to and should go together. Expecting kids to get all the education they need during day classes could hinder them for the rest of their lives, particularly if they have poor teachers.
This memo,surely,is straight from this teacher’s union bosses.And we know how much the bosses of teachers’ unions,NATIONWIDE,care about preparing kids to compete with kids in Japan and South Korea who study 12 hours a day,6 days a week,50 weeks a year.
She didn’t mention being on the internet or gaming at night.
The “poor teachers” part could be addressed by merely requiring government school teachers to pass annual literacy tests.
But that would be racist.
Years ago, when my youngest was in 2nd grade. . .both girls were sick with bronchitis for an entire week. I stopped by the school daily, and the teacher had zero assignments for her.
Friday of that week, she hands me a pile of workbooks and papers nearly 6 inches high, and informs me they all needed to be completed prior to her return on Monday.
I took the pile directly to the Principal’s office, noting that I had signed in each afternoon for 4 days, and gotten nothing. The teacher was called to the Principal’s office, and claimed she was “too busy to provide work on a daily basis”.
Needless to say, my youngest was exempted from the work. Not that it mattered, we pulled both out a few weeks later, and began homeschooling. . .
At the same time, I think your son would have been successful regardless of how much time he spent doing his homework. And I don't think he's going to be able to keep all of that up through high school, either.
I'm an engineer by profession, and I work in a senior management role in an engineering firm. When I make hiring decisions, I am far more impressed by a prospective employee who worked an after-school job for 3-4 hours per day at the age of 16 than one who did 3-4 hours of homework every night.
You can make a kid go to school but you can’t make him do homework
Eating dinner as a family? Agree 100%.Playing outside? Yes,whatever reasonable amount of "downtime" a kid has is better spent riding a bike,kicking a football or skipping rope than parked in front of a computer.
As for the rest,see Post #47.
Taught for many years and this statement is the exact truth.
Spot on.
15% of the people on the Forbes 400 list never completed college. Only 5% of them have doctoral degrees. I think there's a message there, too.
The “essence” of homework is to provide additional time for practicing and reinforcing what was learned. If the teacher is giving half the class time to practice and do what would’ve been their homework, it doesn’t seem like much time is left for the actual lesson.
If only the education system actually used this standard. If only our education system was held to the same standard the drug industry was held to.
A new drug goes through clinical trials that test the efficacy of that drug. The drug must be proven to be more helpful than harmful.
New education ideas do not have to pass these sort of standards before they are implemented and our children are forced to endure their often deleterious effects.
New Math and Whole Word are just the most recent failures that have been forced on our children to the detriment of our children and our society with no research or testing to support the decision to implement the policy.
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