Posted on 04/28/2024 7:13:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A lawmaker in California introduced a bill that would ban teachers from being able to assign students an excessive amount of homework.
California State Assembly member Pilar Schiavo (D) introduced The Healthy Homework Act, also known as AB 2999, in February, noting in an interview with Fox40 that it would have a “huge impact” on the students.
Under AB 2999, educational agencies, local school board officials, and school administration officials would need to “develop, adopt, and update” homework policies “at least once every five years,” and take into account research available regarding the impacts of homework on students’ physical and mental health.
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It's California, they are already extra stupid. And this is from a former student in the San Jose Unified School District from 1973-75 who was placed a year ahead because of where I came from and to where I was going back after those two years. A state that has the most worst public school systems in the country which barely have homework as it is (or even enforce it). What could go wrong?
I disagree. As I have watched my kids pour over books every night for 2 to 3 sometimes 4 hours daily from middle school 8 th grade through senior year I will stand with this legislator. There’s too much homework being handed out. If a teacher can’t be effective enough in the classroom to teach what these kids need to learn, maybe they shouldn’t be teachers. Sending them home with more than a half days worth of homework is ridiculous.
Maybe it’s to destroy the family by preventing the kids from having time to interact with parents and other siblings.
-PJ
Since “excessive” is a nebulous term, teachers will end up assigning no homework to cya.
It’s as though Californians are not already stupid enough.
I’m 82 and play the guitar. (So what?) I’ve been asked to teach people how to play, but I gave up trying to teach playing theGuitar to people. You can only LEARN how to play a guitar, it cannot be magically “taught.” Teaching is a process of showing people “how’ then people must LEARN how. Kids are not going to learn something from a teacher in the short classroom times. To learn, kids have to practice the subject for hours…self-learning (practice). People never learned to play the guitar because the next time they held it was at the next lesson. There was no self-learning (practice) process, and the guitars sit idle today. Homework for children, (if structured properly), sets up a self-learning regimen….snd they will learn to learn what they are being taught.
Insect Herders in the coming Marxist Paradise have no need of education.
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Schools have 6 or 7 hours per day to educate students. If that’s not enough time, get better teachers.
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.
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