Should homework be banned ?

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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?

See the VADOE Youtube channel for Grading and Equity.

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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?

What are they grade on? Test can’t be too much of a grade either ?

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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?

What are they grade on? Test can’t be too much of a grade either ?

In middle school, the grade is assessments, and some classwork still counts, at least for now. Homework is optional. The high school is now using skills-based grading and nothing counts but assessments and some get dropped and replaced. It’s very confusing. I wish I could spend 50k on private school to escape this. It’s frustrating because I moved to a specific area for the schools, then the school implements this nonsense.

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I think the FCPS grading and equity policy is racist and skills-based grading is racist. Basically you’re saying that you’ve given up on groups of people to do the work and that they shouldn’t be penalized for not doing the work. If I was in one of these groups, I would sue FCPS. The job of the school is to educate and a kid needs to understand that in order to learn they will have to do the work.

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What Hw? They don’t get much at all.

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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.

Because your DC doesn’t like homework, you want homework to be banned for my children and all FCPS children? What else does she/he not like and you want banned for all of us?

She has sports and she also have 90,000 YouTube subs and 40,000 TikTok subs, she makes $600-800 a month depending on how much time she spends on videosz

What kind of parent would choose for his/her child to opt for sports and social media over academics? NO parent; I guess this student had a little extra time today since school is out.

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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?

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.

When you are a student, your "job" is schoolwork. 8 hours a week sounds fine for MS, and probably keeps some kids from getting into trouble online and out of the home.

[Anonymous]

We should just drop the “school” part of the signs on half the schools in this country, call them daycare, and let the parents who want their kids going to school send the kids to school (with the highest expectations for academics and behavior) and let the other parents send their kids to daycare.

It would be so much easier for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:We should just drop the “school” part of the signs on half the schools in this country, call them daycare, and let the parents who want their kids going to school send the kids to school (with the highest expectations for academics and behavior) and let the other parents send their kids to daycare.

It would be so much easier for everyone.

It actually seems like we’re already headed that way with privates and charters and homeschooling. Soon public schools will just be daycare centers and everyone will know that.

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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?

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.

When you are a student, your "job" is schoolwork. 8 hours a week sounds fine for MS, and probably keeps some kids from getting into trouble online and out of the home.

We really need to stop the idea that all MS kids will be nothing but trouble unless kept busy at all times. Their kids, and they should act like it. My friends and I had no problems being kids when we were in MS. No trouble and still had tons of fun.

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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.

Definitely for the core subjects. It doesn't have to be hours every night.

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If your kid doesn’t want homework in HS, boy do I have news for them about college.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid doesn’t want homework in HS, boy do I have news for them about college.

What kid wants homework in any grade? Some isn't bad, but alot of kids get way too much. Once they are in college, they're adults and should be able to figure it out.

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In fourth grade, I had a LOT of homework. The teacher was extremely tough--too tough really, But, I skated for the next few years. My mom still talked about it years later. She remembered it better than I. But, she never would have gone to the school and complained.

I think some homework is appropriate. It sets good habits. Not hours and hours, however.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid doesn’t want homework in HS, boy do I have news for them about college.

What kid wants homework in any grade? Some isn't bad, but alot of kids get way too much. Once they are in college, they're adults and should be able to figure it out.

Time management is still the problem in college, partly because they had every afternoon and weekend free in K-12.