[ArcadeQuarters]

Schools have 6 or 7 hours per day to educate students. If that’s not enough time, get better teachers.

[hanamizu]

Schools have 6 or 7 hours per day to educate students. If that’s not enough time, get better teachers.

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I taught Jr High history for decades. I gave a lot of homework. Some kids and parents weren’t happy about it. But homework is more like ‘real life’ than tests are when you think about it. There are certain things that just have to get don. The fact is, ‘better teachers’ tend to be the ones who give homework.

But in any case, contrast the idea of this law with how schools work in Japan. First of all, their school year is 240 days vs 180 days in the U.S. They go to school 5 1/2 days per week. And after school, most kids go to what are called ‘cram’ schools so that they can get into good high schools. Cram schools are at least a couple of hours in the evening and they too give out homework.

When they get home, they work on homework. They saying goes something like this, “Going to bed before midnight leads to failure”.

Am I advocating such a regime for American kids? Absolutely not. Completely different cultures. But the trend should be to require more of our students rather than less.

The movie ‘Idiocracy’ was not meant to be a guidebook.

[TheWriterTX]

Homework is an important tool to reinforce through reading and extrapolation what is taught in the classroom.

Tests are an important tool to determine knowledge retention.

Connecting knowledge to different memory areas is crucial for long term knowledge building. What we see, hear, and do are saved in our mind differently. Classroom instruction is passive learning whereas homework is active learning.

If we are not teaching our children to be active, life-long learners, we condemn them to a life of subjugation and brainwashing.

The problem is not the homework or the teachers, it’s the garbage curriculum that is foisted on them.

[No name given]

Or better yet, homeschool your children.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Bingo!

[PrairieLady2]

Schools have 6 or 7 hours per day to educate students. If that’s not enough time, get better teachers.

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Absolutely!!

The dead giveaway is when it takes a child 2 hours to catch up on a weeks worth of schoolwork after being sick, but has 10+ hours of homework per week.

I homeschooled some, and am aware of what it takes to give a good education.

Taking a break from school, and participating in family matters is important for the child, also.