Childrens is tender ... we don't want to do anything that might bruise their little egos ... or cause teecher any extra work!
Childrens is tender ... we don't want to do anything that might bruise their little egos ... or cause teecher any extra work!
Kids below 4th grade don’t need homework. I couldn’t believe the amount of busy work the schools saddle my kids with. By Middle school - yes, they should have homework, but not in kindergarten.
The education research studies get treated like hard science yet they are designed and may be manipulated to support a certain predetermined belief.
I understand where many of the people posting here are coming from regarding children spending time with their family. However let me make an analogy here. Let me say we have a basketball coach for a children’s team who wants the parents to like her so that the principal of the school will favor her and she Will keep her job. So she writes the parents a letter saying their child Will not have to spend time outside of practice conditioning or shooting baskets. The entire off-season should be spent doing things with family and The family should not worry if their student shoots any baskets in The off-season. How is this team going to do when they play a team where the players did conditioning outside of practice and put extra time into shooting baskets and practicing their game at home and in the off-season? Also where the team they are playing had their players play against their parents one on one at home to get extra practice. Who would win, the “no homework is great team” or the team that went the extra mile?
I come from a family of teachers - both parents and two uncles.
They have all said, at one time or another, that the laziest teachers give the most homework. If you are an effective classroom teacher, then your students will learn in class.
That being said, encouraging and directing (but not requiring) outside of class study can help those students who need help. Then, at the dreaded parent/teacher conference, the educator can look the parents dead in the eye and say “how much have you helped little Johnny on his optional extra-curricular studies?”
Logic and experience says she's wrong. That aside, whenever a suggestion comes from such a "professional," I ask myself: Does this have an affect on their quality of work life?. And if so...I assume I understand the motivation.
I had homework when I was a kid. Somehow I survived it.
This is about dumbing down schools and students - something the MSM and globalists are for.
Homeschooling is the answer. If you have sent your kids to the public church/indoctrination center, expect the worst.
Whatever amount of homework that has been assigned in the last 20 years obviously has not produced superior students or even adults with a rudimentary knowledge of the real world(see Jesse Watters,safe zones, and other liberal stupidity by Millenials for further enlightenment).
I would rather see students stay after school for additional attention than for homework.
Kids need to be kids.