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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All the homework in the world isn't going to fix a situation where parents are not interested in raising their own kids.
I read that as do what you love the money will follow. I’d be interested to know what the grammar school experiences were of those successful people. Study habits and discipline are part of their success. Did they get it in grammar school?
I must be the dinosaur around here because I remember what Catholic schools and home life was like in the late 1940s-early 1950s. I come down on the side of homework.
There was always homework, lots of it, even in 1st Grade. I know my multiplication tables by heart because of all the homework. There was NO acceptable excuse for not doing it or turning it in late, save death. Preferably your own.
Eating dinner as a family was a rare treat, since my dad worked in restaurants and hotels. There was no TV or cell phones. We played outside, in the streets.
We survived.
No homework?. . .but what will all the puppies eat now??
If a student reads for 30 minutes per day, including the newspaper, by the end of the year, that student will perform better than 80% of his/her peers.
It just makes sense. The more you read, the better you read. School work takes reading. So does work.
As a high school math teacher in the 50’s and 60’s I assigned homework regularly. The concept taught in the classroom needs to be practiced and learned with exercises. Whatever you want to master, you need to practice. In mathematics we call it homework.
Just curious, how do you test educational ideas without implementing them in at least some school somewhere? On lab rats?
what grade does she teach..
If it is a first second it is different than middle school
my wife was a first second..this was pretty much her policy but they got homework in the form of reading at home and a book report
This is from Fort Worth where a large part of the “The good ‘ole USA” still exists.
Interesting take on it. I see it as evidence of my view that education in this country (particularly public education) isn’t aimed at producing excellence. It’s aimed at producing uniformity first and foremost — which produces mediocrity by definition.
I don’t think study habits are part of a CEO’s success. Discipline probably comes naturally because it’s important to be disciplined in order to economically use your time.
In my experience...
I attended public school back when they had sectioning with the slowest kids moving down and the achievers moving up to more challenging classes.
Beginning in 4th grade, I had 4-6 hours of homework per night working math problems, reading chapters in the textbooks, writing essays, research papers, etc.
We had great teachers who pushed us hard. By 7th grade I had finished calculus and was studying the Existentialist philosophers.
When I got to West Point, I saw nothing new in math or physics; I had the same books in high school for the most part.
I also found time for reading thousands of science fiction stories, playing sports, church, the school band, etc. What I did NOT have time for was an extensive social life and getting into teenage trouble.
I still have a teenage child-by-marriage at home. Her time is filled with texting, chatting, Facebook, watching TV, etc. Utterly empty except for the SJW programming and propaganda.
Little wonder that our society is going to Hell in a handbasket!
What you said is right over target.
We have a lot of friends who do exactly that kind of training.
We decided to homeschool, no TV, no computer games, no cellphones. Wife has two degrees and plays five instruments, so our children are basically in school 16 hours a day.
I just moved to Sierra Leone and all five went with us, of their own free will, two being adults. Three of them immediately got jobs in the US Embassy and are earning their college money.
The children must really hate us for the hard work we put them through as kids. (sarc)
Much of the time spent teaching in high school was, what I found to be amusing, hearing their anti work arguments and sometimes deflecting the arguments and observing their reaction. Seventh grade boys would offer me cash “if I were interested in money, I’d have a different career.” Or they’d say, “I don’t need to know how to spell, I’m gonna have a secretary.”
The ninth graders very busy with wanting to use electronics in class (my kids were not allowed a calculator until high school at least). They’d say “oh you don’t know THAT? You need to get up to speed on this.”
I’d say I knew guys (my father) who invented personal computers and did so by whatever they were teaching them in NY suburban Catholic high school in the late forties early fifties and in engineering school at the military academy and they learned this Shakespeare stuff so back to work.
i also told them that classic stories were good not because they were old but because they were good. And that it was they who were going to need to get good culture going again
I agree. Great post.
I agree. Great post.
Include me in that minority.
Feels kinda good being in the minority and right.
Ever notice how the minority usually is?
Homework teaches responsibility plain and simple at any age.
And practice makes perfect. Horrors! how Victorian!
At younger ages, homework should be an exercise that the child is capable of doing on his or her own. Times tables, math operations, dictionary usage, etc. are things a child should realize that he has to make the effort to learn to succeed in class and life. It takes practice to attain confidence and to master anything.
But they don’t try it in even one classroom before they decide to force it in to every classroom in the country.
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