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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that we don't know our kids were having a problem with the homework, quizzes, etc. until it's too late. Maybe the schools need to hire people whose job it is just to grade the daily work/worksheets and quizzes. Or bring in honor roll high school students who need volunteer hours and let them grade the worksheets. The unit tests can be graded by the teachers.

But things need to be graded fairly quickly so we can help our kids if they are struggling. I don't trust the teachers to let me know.[/quote]

Without homework tests or any sort of feedback we've got no clue what is going on. Makes me wonder what is stressing teachers out at the elementary level without these things.[/quote]

You have no idea why an ES teacher is stressed? How about 3 hours during the school week to plan, make copies, and grade because 2 hours are used for useless meetings where we are told what to do. How about 25-28 kids with a huge spectrum of needs and abilities. That is why they are stressed. [/quote]

No homework means less stress for the teacher.

It also means I have to assign my kid to do work, or pay for a tutor, so they can get re-enforcement and have a clue what they're actually learning and to what degree they have actually mastered it.

[b]American schools are a joke compared to back home[/b] where they have far more students per classroom and far less funding per student.[/quote]

And yet you are here. [/quote]

Yep, and somehow a lower resourced school system outperforms the US system.  We should demand far better.[/quote]

Do you think your ideas are new? Good luck with your demands, come back and tell us how it goes.[/quote]

That's ok, it means there will continue to be a demand for people like me from outside the states because the k-12 system can produce enough STEM ready students.[/quote]

Which is fantastic--the US has always thrived through immigrants.  But it doesn't mean we have to recreate the institutions of other countries that produced immigrants.  For better or worse, US culture is not that academically focused at the K-12 level.  Somehow it has still always both developed and attracted top talent, developed strong businesses and industries with high productivity levels, and has some of the best colleges and universities in the world.  Will it last? Maybe, maybe not.  But it did all these things without ever having a super-cram intensive focus on K-12 academics.  Students rise to the top in college and graduate school or they go out in the world and do something else.  I think we should learn from others' practices, but also recognize that practices always occur within a broader culture.  [/quote]

While all of this is true, I think there's been a shift as of late where even the top college students don't seem to want to do a lot of work and aren't as interested in graduate school as they used to be. I work with the best and brightest undergrads in my department.[b] In the past 10 years there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of these students who want to pursue graduate degrees.[/b] Many of them don't even know what they want to do and say they'll just take a gap year after graduation. They kind of shrug and say it all sounds like a lot of work. I'm not sure if this is due to a watering down of K-12 (and subsequently higher ed, because they aren't as prepared for the rigor now), this new trend of "quiet quitting" and everyone making TikTok videos about how burned out they are, or what. I am curious if people at other universities are seeing this trend.[/quote]

I think this has more to do with the costs of college and the perception (in many cases accurate) that graduate degrees won't pay off in the same way as they used to. [/quote]

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