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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a high school teacher. Homework is educationally useless. Reading, studying and working on essays and projects is plenty.

Busywork is not education. [/quote]

Math and foreign language homework are not useless at all. Neither are science labs / lab reports as homework. Good luck getting a kid into a STEM field without doing homework.[/quote]

I have a PhD in STEM and very rarely had homework in high school.  I also never took AP classes.  
I did have a lot of work outside of class time at university but I also was only in class for 4-6 hours a day.  My kid is at high school from 8:30-4:45.  
I have 30 peer reviewed publications so excessive homework in high school is not required for a STEM career.  My co-workers probably have very similar stories.

For most STEM careers, where you go to high school and undergrad doesn't really matter.  Where you go to grad school and the skills that you focus on there are FAR more important.  One of my most successful employees went to community college before heading to a state school to finish off her BS and MS.  [/quote]

You do recognize the world is more competitive now than back in the Regan years?  My child just started at CMU for engineering. You absolutely will not be getting in CMU or any competitive engineering school these days without taking APs and DEs or an IB. Of course my kid didn’t find value in his AP stats class but he also knew he needed to at least be top 5% of his class to get into the schools he was targeting. Being top of your class means a high GPA which means A in all classes and as many weighted classes as can be handled.

Kids are much much smarter and way more advanced than we were it’s just a fact.  They have so much access to information at an early age when their brains are still developing. There a big difference between a 50yr old and an 18yr old and what they are expected to know and the drive they are supposed to have what was expected of you.

And no my son didn’t have busy work homework. You actually have to study to get an A in multivariable Calc at age 16. Probably a disciple you didn’t even touch until your junior year in college. [/quote]

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