Should homework be banned ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most MS "homework" is work kids were supposed to do in class, but they wasted their time there and then have to finish at home (if they do and hand in the work at all).

Or they are given time to start at the end of the period and expected to finish at home. It doesn’t mean they wasted time. It means there wasn’t enough time given in class because it was given at the end of the period. Or it’s a longer assignment and they can’t devote any more class time to it so they have to finish at home.

Or, more often, because they chose to use the given class time to chat with friends and/or play on their phone (yes, we know they aren’t supposed to have it and yes, they still do and no, most administrations will not allow teachers to confiscate them)/Chromebook/smartwatch and then whine to their parents about how the mean teacher MADE them have homework.

[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?

In middle school you think eight hours a week (for six or more classes) is excessive? What kind of terrible middle school did you attend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Middle school is when sports get serious, kids start finding and focusing on ECs and they can start volunteering on their own

Nobody cares about your child’s “serious” sports. Do your homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In middle school you think eight hours a week (for six or more classes) is excessive? What kind of terrible middle school did you attend?

I didn't have that much in middle school in the 90s. What kind if middle school wants to overschedule kids and not let them have free time.

[Anonymous]

Or, they could tell students ahead of time what the homework would be. The teachers could give "homework passes" every quarter so kids could skip it occasionally.

But. to make a rule that there can be no homework is not a good diea.

[Anonymous]

How on earth are kids supposed to get through college with never having done homework? I spent so many hours studying to get through engineering and law school. I can't imagine having no study habits and trying to succeed. I am annoyed my ES kids don't have homework.

[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…

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How on earth are kids supposed to get through college with never having done homework? I spent so many hours studying to get through engineering and law school. I can't imagine having no study habits and trying to succeed. I am annoyed my ES kids don't have homework.

I would think that adults who are in college can figure it out. Or at least they should be able to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In middle school you think eight hours a week (for six or more classes) is excessive? What kind of terrible middle school did you attend?

I didn't have that much in middle school in the 90s. What kind if middle school wants to overschedule kids and not let them have free time.

What you want is work now and freedom (financial, etc be it whatever) in their adulthood, and not the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In middle school you think eight hours a week (for six or more classes) is excessive? What kind of terrible middle school did you attend?

I didn't have that much in middle school in the 90s. What kind if middle school wants to overschedule kids and not let them have free time.

What you want is work now and freedom (financial, etc be it whatever) in their adulthood, and not the opposite.

I tend to agree. It’s harder to start working hard when you’re older. You want to be able to slow down then. They should be working a bit harder now while they are going.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Exactly this. Homework is not equitable.

Ergo, it must be banned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

American public schools need to be run by Asians. They will sweep you out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How on earth are kids supposed to get through college with never having done homework? I spent so many hours studying to get through engineering and law school. I can't imagine having no study habits and trying to succeed. I am annoyed my ES kids don't have homework.

I would think that adults who are in college can figure it out. Or at least they should be able to.

Yes, but you can't really believe that they shouldn't have freedom in childhood do you?

[Anonymous]

Fine with me OP, as long as practice is also banned for sports.

--math teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

My kid had a good 2 hrs of HW every night in MS. It prepared him well for a challenging HS and now he thinks college is easy.