Should homework be banned ?

[Anonymous]

Homework in US is trying to figure out what needs to be done and where the material might be. In EE I knew what needed to have done. I was usually thinking about it as the teacher was announcing it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. We need to go the opposite direction and restore it in ES and MS.

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I agree! Restore homework, especially in upper ES and in MS!

If MS students had 20-30 minutes of homework for each class they take each day, they'd only have 60-90 minutes of homework each night because they only take 4 classes each day, and certain classes (PE and Mascot Time) do not have homework. So even if a kid had a tough schedule (four core classes in one day), that means their other day is much easier, so they can split the homework up over the two days.

The schools not giving homework is contributing to the laziness of this generation.

4 x 30 is 120 minutes aka 2 hours. You want 12-14 year old kids to spend upwards of 8 hrs per week on homework?

You might need to do some reading comprehension homework yourself. Reread what is written above. Over the course of two days, the most classes students will have homework in is six classes, or approximately three per day.

Even if they did have 8 hours of homework per week, I have no problem with that. Eight hours per day is too much, but eight hours per week is perfectly fine.

[Anonymous]

Maybe not ban it all together, but way less of it. Where do kids anymore have tine to be kids? Especially in ES and MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids don’t have enough time on their video games and other electronic devices.

No, kids don't have time to just be kids. Too much screen time, overscheduling including homework.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. We need to go the opposite direction and restore it in ES and MS.

+1

I agree! Restore homework, especially in upper ES and in MS!

If MS students had 20-30 minutes of homework for each class they take each day, they'd only have 60-90 minutes of homework each night because they only take 4 classes each day, and certain classes (PE and Mascot Time) do not have homework. So even if a kid had a tough schedule (four core classes in one day), that means their other day is much easier, so they can split the homework up over the two days.

The schools not giving homework is contributing to the laziness of this generation.

4 x 30 is 120 minutes aka 2 hours. You want 12-14 year old kids to spend upwards of 8 hrs per week on homework?

Do most MS kids have enough other things going on that an hour or two of HW a day instead of Insta/TikTok/YouTube is going to be problematic? That should not be a problem for mine, as long as the weekend can be used for doing the work as well.

Limit screen time and let them be kids. What's the problem?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to "practice makes perfect?"

Isn’t it “Perfect practice makes perfect”? If the child is incorrectly practicing math hw for example, won’t that just make it more difficult to undo the misunderstanding?

But, if he turns in the homework, the teacher will see the problem.

That happens during the school day. The student has the problem and the reacher is there to intervene or meet in small group. Doing it incorrectly at home just makes it more cemented and more difficult to correct.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to "practice makes perfect?"

Isn’t it “Perfect practice makes perfect”? If the child is incorrectly practicing math hw for example, won’t that just make it more difficult to undo the misunderstanding?

But, if he turns in the homework, the teacher will see the problem.

That happens during the school day. The student has the problem and the reacher is there to intervene or meet in small group. Doing it incorrectly at home just makes it more cemented and more difficult to correct.

True in elementary school, high school is a different story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to "practice makes perfect?"

Isn’t it “Perfect practice makes perfect”? If the child is incorrectly practicing math hw for example, won’t that just make it more difficult to undo the misunderstanding?

But, if he turns in the homework, the teacher will see the problem.

That happens during the school day. The student has the problem and the reacher is there to intervene or meet in small group. Doing it incorrectly at home just makes it more cemented and more difficult to correct.

I can see what the kids are doing incorrectly during school hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever email a high school teacher and asked them to stop giving homework?

No. I want homework to be mandatory for grd 3-12,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to "practice makes perfect?"

Isn’t it “Perfect practice makes perfect”? If the child is incorrectly practicing math hw for example, won’t that just make it more difficult to undo the misunderstanding?

But, if he turns in the homework, the teacher will see the problem.

That happens during the school day. The student has the problem and the reacher is there to intervene or meet in small group. Doing it incorrectly at home just makes it more cemented and more difficult to correct.

True in elementary school, high school is a different story.

Yes. Sorry. I was thinking of ES when I posted.

[Anonymous]

What homework? DC doesn’t get much at all.

[Anonymous]

Don’t have a particular dog in this fight, but as a foreigner this thread really confirms my view that America is in a spiral of anti-intellectualism and race-to-the-bottom in the education of its citizens. It’s hard for me to believe that students can master high level reading and math with little outside of school, independent effort, or to think they can be prepared for higher education when their after school activities consist of sports and YouTube. But what do I know…

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever email a high school teacher and asked them to stop giving homework?

No. I want homework to be mandatory for grd 3-12,

I am a third grade teacher. In our weekly update we provide suggested topics parents could discuss with their child and things they could do to support what we’ve done in school. We don’t assign hw. If it became a requirement would you expect every child to have the same hw? It seems for some it would be busywork and for others it might be too difficult. To avoid that we’d have to differentiate the hw and I know I don’t have time to do that. I also wouldn’t need the students to return the hw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t have a particular dog in this fight, but as a foreigner this thread really confirms my view that America is in a spiral of anti-intellectualism and race-to-the-bottom in the education of its citizens. It’s hard for me to believe that students can master high level reading and math with little outside of school, independent effort, or to think they can be prepared for higher education when their after school activities consist of sports and YouTube. But what do I know…

As someone who grew up here I also agree. I had homework all week in HS and still played several sports. Video games were reserved for weekends in my house. And don’t worry I still “got to be a kid” through my social time playing sports, at lunch, in class, etc. Definitely seems to me that we are bending to the desires of the laziest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever email a high school teacher and asked them to stop giving homework?

Oh my actual God. You have a teenager. Land the helicopter.