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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one who questions the value of homework?  By 5th grade, I probably had some math problems most nights (it's so long ago, I may not remember correctly) but that's probably all.  I was ten years old.  I did not have an hour or more per night and 5 hours on the weekend.  I got into an Ivy anyway.  Is all of this work of actual instructional value?  The Finns don't do this to their children, and they're among the top scorers in the world.  Does anyone else wonder if we're beating the love of learning out of our children, instead of encouraging it?[/quote]

Keep in mind that the BASIS curriculum in accelerated.  A BASIS fifth grader should probably be doing the same amount of homework as a sixth or seventh grader at another school.  Also, that BASIS fifth grader can usually graduate after 111th grade with up 10 APs under his belt, so he can probably skip most of freshman year at college as well.[/quote]

What does that get us?  Little automatons that can test out of the first year survey courses at Maryland?  What is the goal?  Knowledge and the desire to pursue education?  Or just college credits?  Obviously these aren't the well-rounded students that highly-respected universities desire.  Is the point of creating these little robots simply to avoid a year's worth of college tuition?

Maybe we should be discussing college tuition.  How is it sensible that the cost-of-living index can rise at 1 - 2% per year, and yet college tuition rises 10 - 12% per year?  (Student loans - which schools then factor into their budgets and tuition, and it allows them to never cut costs.  If you want to see the tuition start to align with reality, then some departments & administrators need to be let go.  But, however obvious this is it is still an argument for another thread.

In the meantime, little Basis robots are not going to be prized at highly selective universities.  
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