Posted on 10/26/2015 5:42:18 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Amy Clipston had a request that was a new one for her daughter's first-grade teacher.
Many parents had marched in to demand that their children, even those who couldn't tie their shoes yet, get more homework. Clipston was the first to request the opposite - that her daughter opt out of homework altogether.
"I felt my child was doing quite fine in school," said Clipston, a chemist with three children, noting that her daughter's schoolday in the highly competitive Lower Merion School District was 61/2 hours, with a 20-minute recess. "I felt 10 to 20 minutes of homework a night was not accomplishing anything."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Homework is also a kind of babysitter that keeps the kids occupied while both parents are still working.
You just resurrected a 3 year old thread under a new screen name at that.
Yikes, almost 3 years ago thread! I started looking back through my posts until I realized it was from 2015. Time warp! Anyway, in response, one of the reasons I enjoyed doing my homework at the public library was because of finding so many other topics to browse. But I always got the homework out of the way first. Surfing the card catalog and aisles was fun. That's how I learned some great math skills, like reading about the Trachtenberg method of calculating in my head without using paper and pencil, besides history and chemistry etc. Schools do a poor job of teaching kids; kids need to concentrate on self-teaching and the public library is the perfect place for that. Unfortunately for millennials today they would rather surf the Internet for cat videos instead of brain food.
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