Posted on 05/10/2008 4:38:17 PM PDT by Clive
Started to happen when I was a kid in the early 1990s. Sometimes parents get way too involved in their children. Parents should not be their children’s friends.
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Please get rid of homework!!!!!
I never had much homework growing up, and my poor 11 year old twin daughters have always had a ton of it. Then one of my daughters is special needs (the other gifted), and things take her about twice as long as my gifted daughter. We can’t do anything during the week, and every weeknight is stressful.
I don’t want to homeschool. My daughters love their school, but I just hate homework.
i'm a little confused with this part.
I don’t remember having much homework at all until high school. This was in the seventies.
My daughters do their homework, but it just takes my gifted daughter about an hour and my special needs daughter 2 to 3 hours every week night.
I think the only thing that should happen at home is studying for tests and reading until around high school.
I have never seen the need for kids being sent home pages to color when they are in first grade.
Kids are also tired after school. Just let them go outside and play.
The worst time of year is winter. By the time they get done with homework it’s dark outside. If you let them play outside first, then they are too tired to do the homework.
she did not say she did her daughter’s homework.
only that her daughter’s homework load limits the other things she and her family can do.
i empathize.
i do not remember having 2 hours of homework every night when i was 9/10 yrs old.
but my daughter does.
homeschooling is looking better and better, just to give us flexibility and time together as a family.
What is infobahn?????
My high school math teacher had the following policy in her upper level classes: Homework was optional, but everyone who completed all of the homework during the term was guaranteed not to get a failing grade. I skipped most of the homework, doing it only when I felt like I hadn’t fully understood that day’s concept in class. I like the policy, because it saved me a lot of time and repetitive drilling I didn’t need.
That said, this approach probably wouldn’t work with younger or more marginal students. Some benefit from extra practice and drills. For others it’s just busy work.
I have one other gripe about homework. For years now, my daughters get sent home the assignment of writing your spelling words 3 times each.
My gifted daughter already knows how to spell most of her spelling words before she even gets her list, so why should she write them 3 times each.
My other daughter gets so tired from writing, and she doesn’t really have time to study the words.
How about the teachers assign a spelling list, and just test the kids at the end of the week. The kids (and parents) will figure out the best way to study the words at home.
The # 1 reason why kids are screwed up in this country.
Today's generation of parents have bought the line of poppycock nonsense pablum that your child will be "damaged" by low self esteem if you treat them like your offspring rather than a friend.
Having raised six myself, I was never my child's friend, I was their parent. It was a God given responsibility to raise them, not befriend them
It would work for all of my kids. They are great at math, and I have never seen the need for doing tons of repetitive work. I think they need some practice on new concepts, but don’t need tons of repetitive work.
You might be shocked at how little time is often spent teaching in the classroom.
Once you take away the time given over to changing classes, taking attendance, disciplining a student or two, handing out assignments, disciplining a few more students, teaching to standardized tests, filling out forms (which take away from the teacher’s time in class), and so on, it is no wonder so many teachers have to give homework.
They have no time to teach in class.
We homeschooled. Mine spent hours and hours independently reading or working on one project or the other. On the other hand, math never took more that 20 minutes or so a day.
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How many words do your kids get? Mine get 25-30 every week. We only got 10 a week when I was a kid. Here’s how spelling went way back when:
Monday: Pre-test. This test did not count toward your grade, but if you got words wrong, you wrote those words 10 times each. Get them right and you don’t have homework that day.
Tuesday: Write each word in a sentence. More than one sentence that starts with “I” and it was marked wrong.
Wednesday: Write a SHORT paragraph using as many spelling words as you can. The paragraph had to make sense, and if you used them all, you got a gold star.
Thursday: Write the words in alphabetical order and study.
Friday: Final test. This was the one that counted. Penmanship counted, too. If it was sloppy, it was wrong.
As an aside, in the third grade, multiplication tables were a standing order. You wrote them out 10 times each no matter what. This resulted in having them indelibly printed on our brains forever. We couldn’t forget them if we tried.
Oh! That reminds me of the time our class did something VERY bad (don’t ask me what it was; I don’t remember) and the teacher assigned the following as punishment: Write the muliplication tables 10 times each, but write them in ROMAN NUMERALS. AHHHH! (Worked though... never had to do it again.)
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Canada should spend less time doing homework and more time designing a bigger logo to put on the space shuttle robotic arm.
Me either. I just didn’t do it.
I am nor a fan of homework and I’ll tell yu what— the idiot teachers at the school act like the only way I got involved in my kids’ lives was to check the silly homework and I highly resented that coming form those numbskull teachers.
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