Anyone decide to skip homework?

[Anonymous]

If you don't believe meaningless HW can cause harm then you've clearly never spent an hour with a crying, tired, child coloring on a kindergarten worksheet ... every night ...

Said the random stranger on the internet who has seen it with their own eyes and lived through the experience ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^ You’re missing the point. Doing homework is not the issue. Doing stupid homework with no educational benefit, that can actually cause harm, is the problem. You don’t like what the research has to say on this issue?

The "research" supports both perspectives. I am a NP but I wanted to clarify that there certainly is valid, peer-reviewed research that supports both sides of this argument.

As for "stupid homework with no educational benefit," well, that most likely depends on who is assessing the work. It is hard to imagine that homework "can actually cause harm."

In both cases I will defer to a teacher to make that assessment rather than some random person on the internet.

Post links to research validating reading logs as an effective approach or it doesn’t exist.