Posted on 04/29/2024 9:09:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A state lawmaker in California has introduced legislation that would severely restrict a teacher’s ability to hand out homework assignments to students that are deemed to be too much.
As reported by Breitbart, State Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo (D-Calif.) introduced AB 2999, formally known as The Healthy Homework Act, in February.
The bill would mandate public school officials to “develop, adopt, and update” their policies regarding homework “at least once every five years.”
The bill would also require schools to take into account research which allegedly shows the physical and mental health impacts of homework.
“I think this is going to make a huge impact for the students,” said Schiavo.
“The times have changed and our homework policies don’t always change with the times, so we need to make sure we are addressing issues that are effective and also don’t harm kids.”
Schiavo was partially influenced by the fact that her sixth-grade daughter, Sofia, hates homework; she described homework as “exhausting” and “overwhelming.”
“It’s depressing that my whole day, from when I wake up to when I go to bed, is nearly all taken up with schoolwork,” said Sofia.
Several alleged “experts” have agreed with Schiavo’s view that homework largely needs to be banned. Harris Cooper, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, claimed that “there is a limit to how much kids can benefit from home study,” and that students should have no more than 10 minutes of homework per day.
A recent survey by Stanford University found that, of over 300,000 student respondents, 45% said that homework was their top source of stress.
“If it’s such a source of stress for kids, and we know taking stress off kids’ plates will make a difference in their mental health, this is something that can practically impact kids’ mental health overnight,” Schiavo continued.
Darn! Where was this idiot lawmaker when I was in school?!
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And I'd love to know WHAT is considered to be "excessive homework".
Homework is racist.
And the kids most impacted by a no homework policy: those from low to moderate income families.
It’s not the quantity of the work that matters so much as the quality of the curriculum and the teaching. I figure that for older primary and middle school students, 15-20 minutes of homework per subject is reasonable. It should not exceed two hours per night.
“These kids aren’t dumb enough yet. Some of them still aren’t buying the gov/media BS we feed them. Cut their homework so they can spend more time on video games and social media.”
the Make California Even Dumber Act
Better yet, just ban public schools.
Everything is these days.
Is this bill sponsored by a video game manufacturer?
Sadly, that’s very true.
When I was in the 4th grade and we all were learning cursive with dip pens, we did practice in school, but also had about 15 min. of that for homework, besides everything else!
We had a lot of memorization, some of which took longer than 15 minutes. Then there was spelling, vocabulary words, math, history, geography, and reading for English/books.Throw in the weekly current events( we had to watch or listen to the nightly news and read a newspaper item, which we then had to report on in class and yes, that all took at least 2 hours; sometimes more.
There was no such thing as middle school when I went to school ( there were a few, here and there, but that wasn't the norm ) and writing papers added time to the mix.
Was THAT "excessive homework"?
We thought it was normal and we did it. And I had a 9:00 P.M. be in bed time; lights out and no ifs ands, or buts!
Yes, I did play/see friends after school sometimes, I also had lessons to take, but I and all of the kids I went to school with weren't harmed at all by doing the homework. WE BENEFITED FROM IT!
And throw in study time, when there was a test the next day!
Babying children hurts them!
This is a fantastic idea. Lazy teachers send home mountains of homework, the kid gets home at 3:30 or four, and winds up doing idiotic homework assignments until 830 or nine at night. I remember some of the homework my daughter used to bring home. We were talking an intricate color by number of Martin Luther King‘s face. We’re talking gluing macaroni onto a piece of paper to make a picture of George Washington. Just absolute time wasting crap.
America‘s teachers love to do this because it makes it look like they’re trying. The truth is, imagine anybody else who has a child under the direct control for 40 hours a week. If you can’t fully teach a child in 40 hours a week, you’re doing it wrong. Homeschoolers take less than half a day for lessons. German kids spend less than half a day in class. I would be embarrassed to say I had a child with a captive audience for 40 hours a week, and still wasn’t able to teach them the elements of a proper education.
What’s considered excessive is being in school all day long, and kids still doing homework at 9 o’clock at night. Only today’s teachers could claim it’s impossible to educate a child unless they also do four hours of homework at night.
They no longer learn how to write cursive penmanship.
Most if not all do NOT have to memorize poetry as we did ( Hiawatha in the 3rd grade, OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN in 5th grade and many others ! ), they absolutely do NOT have to know current FACTUAL events, 10 vocabulary words a week, nor geography! Factual history, spelling, punctuation, and grammar? LOL
And yes, I'm talking about lower grades.
There are many school graduating functional illiterates, with few to none reading on grade level nor doing math at grade level!
Three hours of homework was high school; sometimes more. But there was at least one study hall period in high school.
My kids never went to school. But, once, another parent (in a family that valued education highly) explained the homework issue to me: She said the teachers were assigning hours and hours of pointless busy-work for the kids to do at home. For example, they would tell the kids to go home and make a poster, or do a special project that involved the whole family, so the whole family's time was controlled by pointless "homework" every night.
I think we'd all agree with homework that involves reading a book, writing a report, or solving math problems. But, no, the teachers were assigning arts and crafts and silly projects that consumed too much time. Spending quality time with family is important for kids. Homework should be something of value that can be completed in an hour or two.
I never had that kind of homework, nor did my progeny , or my grand. So what you claim was/ is being given is nothing that I am familiar with. But that all sounds worthless!
“I think this is going to make a huge impact for the students,” said Schiavo.
There is no reason they should have homework or school, when they can sell drugs, prostitute themselves ,steel and live off the state.
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