Why even bother sending them to school. Just think how much school must stress them out.
America 2014: Nation of wimps.
The real reason to do this so that parents do not see the curriculum
It lowers the stress of the leftist administrators
GOOD!!!!!!
Homework has been rising exponentially for decades because teachers don’t TEACH anymore.
Will this improve our international competitiveness?
Help to create students ready for quality work in good jobs?
I recently had a chance conversation with a teacher who believed that making a check mark beside incorrect answers or, and he was quite vehement and smug on this next point, use of a red pen was only to demean the child. I explained that without a metric there is no way to measure the child’s knowledge and no way to measure the instructors success at conveying knowledge. An incorrect answer is as much a measure of the child as the instructor. He did not agree and in fact was brimming with hostility, even before our conversation (he was mouthing off to some other person, which is what made me chime in).
Now there’s this story about prohibiting homework to lessen stress.
No homework. No incorrect answers. Hand wringing over stress and marking an incorrect answer, these kids are going to become psycho-losers AND IT’S THE TEACHERS’ FAULT.
Abolish government schools.
“homework has become too time-consuming”
Going to work is time-consuming too.
Why didn’t someone think of this before?
Now we can all do what we want to do.
And all will automatically pass the SAT.
Homework taught me to be responsible and get things done on time.
I’ll be frank, I don’t see how kids can learn without HW. OTOH, life has changed since I was young. We got home at about 4, had time to relax and have a snack with Mom before Dad got home for dinner with the family. Today’s child sometimes doesn’t get home until 6 or later while Mom is rushing around like crazy because she just got home, no one has any time to unwind or spend any time together.
If the kids are on Ritalin (and too many are) they are “sundowning” often a tough time - I will say here all this is one of the reasons I went to homeschooling and took control of my family life.
An hour a day should be enough to have Johnny learn the paltry material he is responsible for in each subject area. But, since teachers don’t teach anything in the classroom and don’t do their job, its up to the parents to have well educated children. Teachers are basically day care.
A popular theory on FR is that the public school day is filled up with liberal indoctrination and that is why they can't teach as much of the basics during the school day as before and need to assign so much homework. But, having a child in public school, it appears to me that the actual major reason must be something else.
I didn’t have close to the level of homework my kids have. I turned out pretty successful due to being raised.right with a good work ethic and desire to do better
I was a pretty crappy student until I grew up.
The converse is my kids have crazy amounts of homework....
My 6th grader has as much as I had with 16 hours freshman college year
They want to eliminate homework so the lazy students and lazy parents do not continually fall behind the hard-working students and hard-working parents.
By the time I was in HS, I had homework an average of two hours a night,
My mom would look at it before I would go to bed, to make sure it was finished.
Every summer from 9th grade on, I took enrichment classes and SAT prep.
I hated it all, but now I’m grateful to mom and dad. I loved college, and I got a great education,
I still take adult Ed classes when I can at my local university, just to keep those gray cells working.
If I were the president of Mexico I would send in an invading force to conquer America without a single shot being fired. Oh wait...
If I were the president of Mexico I would send in an invading force to conquer America without a single shot being fired. Oh wait...