Should homework be banned ?

[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.

PP didn't say this.

[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?

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.

I know a school consoler who said college should no longer assign longer term projects, or homework because they have a life assign classes. Just
Grade on understand of material and if they are having fun

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Exactly this. Homework is not equitable.

Ergo, it must be banned.

PP didn't say this.

That's the reason why it's mostly been banned from ES and MS. No more full length novels either.

[Anonymous]

It's been banned, at least for grading, because black kids are less likely to have parents who will make them do their homework.

[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.

I always had at least two hours of homework every night from the time I entered FCPS in the mid-80s, when I was in fifth grade.

My current middle schooler gets home from school at 2:40. If she has a snack and relaxes for a little while before starting homework, she could easily do 1-2 hours of homework each night and still have time for relaxation, lacrosse, and religious education classes.

[Anonymous]

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

--math teacher

+1 My DC doesn't do team competitive sports but has some other EC's and loves the outdoors. I find the obsession with sports, especially soccer, so bizarre. And don't come at me with sports teach all kinds of life lessons, etc. Plenty of other activities do the same thing without taking up multiple hours of time during the week and 1-2 days with tournaments every weekend. School comes first.

[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?

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.

I know a school consoler who said college should no longer assign longer term projects, or homework because they have a life assign classes. Just
Grade on understand of material and if they are having fun

Bull. There’s no way to objectively grade if “they are having fun.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

--math teacher

+1 My DC doesn't do team competitive sports but has some other EC's and loves the outdoors. I find the obsession with sports, especially soccer, so bizarre. And don't come at me with sports teach all kinds of life lessons, etc. Plenty of other activities do the same thing without taking up multiple hours of time during the week and 1-2 days with tournaments every weekend. School comes first.

+2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a high school teacher and have received a few of these emails over the years, usually referencing an IEP or 504. My reply is always that I won’t count it if they don’t do it but it’s the mastery of material that is important.

Parents think homework is busy work and they know better than the teachers. I don’t care if kids don’t do formative work, but don’t come complain to me when they don’t do well on assessments because they have not practiced.

DC doesn’t have any IEP or 504, but just doesn’t like doing homework when she can do something else.

Then you child can choose to do something else and suffer the appropriate academic consequences. Not everyone needs to be a scholar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a high school teacher and have received a few of these emails over the years, usually referencing an IEP or 504. My reply is always that I won’t count it if they don’t do it but it’s the mastery of material that is important.

Parents think homework is busy work and they know better than the teachers. I don’t care if kids don’t do formative work, but don’t come complain to me when they don’t do well on assessments because they have not practiced.

DC doesn’t have any IEP or 504, but just doesn’t like doing homework when she can do something else.

Such is life.

[Anonymous]

Curious: is it helpful to a kid to be given more time? Is it teaching him that he can always have accomodationgs in excess of other people? Is he willing to work nine hours a day for the same pay as those working 8 or is he expecting to be required to do less work?

This may sound snarky--but, my point is that we may be misleading some kids to beleive that they deserve special dispensations.

[Anonymous]

My kids' FCPS schools are no longer counting homework towards grade - it's optional. Also not counting classwork in high school. My kids are learning less. If your kid's school is counting homework, please lmk the school. Does your school use textbooks too?

[Anonymous]

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

--math teacher

Such a good point. How do we get better at soccer? We practice. How do we get better at the violin? We practice. How do we get better at writing? We practice.

It doesn't have to be 3 hours every night, but a few worksheets a week. An extra writing assignment here and there. Practicing your language vocab with flash cards....this can be done.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids' FCPS schools are no longer counting homework towards grade - it's optional. Also not counting classwork in high school. My kids are learning less. If your kid's school is counting homework, please lmk the school. Does your school use textbooks too?

Are you talking about only HS? Elementary schools aren’t supposed to for the academic grade, but can for effort.


https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/elementary-school/elementary-grading-and-reporting-handbook-1