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Poll: Homework Elimination: yea or nay?
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Anonymous
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I am considering forming a parent group to approach our school system about essentially eliminating homework, particularly in elementary school. Middle school homework perhaps 30 mins and 1 hour for high school, max. I feel strongly that our children are in school, working and learning, for 6 hours a day in elementary school and generally, that should be plenty of conscious mental work for children under 10 yrs old. Additionally, If high school kids spent the same amount of time at a paying job as they spend on homework, often it would violate child labor laws. I strongly feel that, for the most part, homework is counterproductive and kills any love of school or learning that kids may have and that perhaps kids might learning even more if the reins were loosened and kids were given more time to explore their interests, read and spend time productively in other ways.
Would you support the elimination of homework in elementary schoool? middle school? high school? across the board? If not, would you like to see a limit and if so, what would it be? I am interested in hearing your thoughts and opinions as I explore if I want to take this idea to the streets. |
Anonymous
| parent of 2 high schoolers here - I don't support this at all. My kids have both benefitted from doing homework, studying for tests, writing papers, doing projects, etc. If you are in a private school with 15 kids in a class then there is more flexibility but even there the skills need to be developed outside of class as well. In a public school with 33 kids in a HS class there is no way the teacher can ensure that all the kids fully understand the concepts. Neither of my kids has busy work homework. The load is a little high - by 12th grade the expectation is an hour per class per day so that's 5 hours a day. But no way should it be only 1 hour a day. |
Anonymous
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Homework is where my son has always shone, starting in third grade. It's where scholars are made. It's where students develop the most intense relationship with their material, because they are at home where they can concentrate. If you limited it to one hour in high school, students couldn't take AP classes and they would not be prepared for college. My son is a freshman in high school.
What gets me most about homework in elementary school is until students are self-reliant doing it depends on the participation of an adult, which screws over children who do not have that support. |
Anonymous
| I don't support this- I think your overall idea and intentions are good (though I don't agree). Establishing a rigid HW time limit especially doesn't make sense to me... |
Anonymous
Your kids have 5 hours of hw on top of their school day? That sound crazy. What school system is this? I would definitely be talking to the principal about that. |
Anonymous
You do realize that most college students have an easier work load than this, right? When I was in college, the expectation was 2-3 hrs homework per hour of class. 3 hrs a week of class x 3 hrs homework = 9 hrs a week x 5 classes = 45 hours week of work. Why is HS more difficult than college? Personally, I think there is a lot of wasted class time in HS. If HS were set up like college, students would be more rested, less stressed and just as prepared. |
Anonymous
| Don't have a HS student but it sounds like lots of folks think their kids learn more from doing HW than they do in class. |
Anonymous
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When my son has a paper due or mid-terms or finals, he's worked five hours a day in middle school. And he's fast. Not every day. OP, look at where the U.S. places in cross-country education rankings. Not at the top of the list!
Plus, the problem with homework limits is one child takes an hour to do something, another student needs two hours to do the same thing. |
Anonymous
Brush up on your writing skills before you take your idea to the streets. |
Anonymous
| LOL!!! |
Anonymous
| Don't you have more important things to do?? poor you! |
Anonymous
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Good luck at college application time.
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Anonymous
Is that really necessary? Do you want to deter people from asking questions or voicing their opinions because they're afraid they'll be called out by an anal grammar-freak? |
Anonymous
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I would support this. My children have their own interests, and adults in our circle of family and friends have much to offer. Elementary-school homework is mostly a waste of time.
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Anonymous
It is a private school. By 12th grade the reading and writing requirements and AP and other requirements start to add up significantly. And no I am not going to talk to the principal. Also have a kid in MCPS and underclassmen seem to have about 3 hours a night - 30-45 minutes per class per day but for 6 classes. |