Cheating and you stay in school.
Homework not graded.
The dumbing down of America continues.
Most homework has become nothing more than busy work that teachers only give a cursory glance to anyway. It has not shown to have any impact on overall performance. Parents are still free to review work done in school and to make their child study and prepare for tests. Parents working with their children on their schooling will produce better results than sheet after sheet of indoctrination.
Checking homework determines if the child is making progress in learning. Of course it should be checked. Homework was only 10% of the grade so it was not having a strong influence on the final grades anyway.
When I taught jr high, classwork and homework made up 50% of the grade. I did fudge it a little, I’d throw out their lowest homework grade each quarter. I explained to the kids and their parents that daily work is what the real world is like—tests for most of us not so much.
In addition this rewarded kids who were consistently willing to work hard, even if they didn’t do well on tests. I have a lot of admiration for kids who keep trying and are willing to put the effort in. Over the three years that I’d have them in my class I saw most of them make improvement. Many, not all of course, were able to do well in high school.
Last night my wife made jumbayala....... yummm!
How can you learn math without practice, without homework??? You learn an operation in class and learn to perform it with homework - worked for me and my children.
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I guess they just get participation trophies?
A's just for showing up to school whenever they feel like it,.
But the big question, does this spell the end for “the dog ate it”?
American society slowly regresses. The “experiment” by the Founders is failing due to the people.
What will they get instead? A sticker?
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Boy did I go to school in the wrong era. Sister Rita James poured over my homework. My math was always wrong!