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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]everyone passes 
even in high school no homework or test everyone gets A & B,  
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As a HS math teacher, I can assure you this is not true.  Around 60% of my students have As and Bs. 30% have Cs, and 10% have Ds and Fs.  This is across the board, even in my AP classes.  People on DCUM like to whine that grades are so inflated and anything less than an A basically means you're failing, but it's not true.[/quote]

The kids come to you unprepared from elementary and middle school. If they had homework they would be better prepared.  On top of this the high school classes are now much easier.  AP is now the new honors. AAP the new regular ed. It is just all much less rigor and practice.[/quote]

Wrong. As someone who used to assign homework religiously, the kids who needed the extra practice either: a) didn't even attempt, or b) attempted it completed wrong.  The ones who didn't need it tended to do it to fluff up their grade even further.

Homework helped a very slim section of my classes who sort of got it, sort of didn't and had someone (parent, tutor, sibling) at home who could support them in working through problems.  The ONLY homework that was beneficial to everyone was pre-reading/watching--that's why some teachers flip their classes.  Now? I assign enough problems IN CLASS that once they are completed I am confident the student knows how to do the skill.  If it takes them 40 minutes, they have free time at the end of class.  If it takes them an hour, they use the whole work time.  If it takes more than that? We work together in class to get as far as we can, and then they come back in study hall, after school, or lunch for additional help.

My AP curriculum is harder/more stringent today than it was 10 years ago.  The criteria to pass the test is far more rigorous than it used to be.  I give minimal homework there, but always have opportunities for students to do it with me. It is a program that allows them to take the 5 question homework quizzes a dozen times until they get a valid score.  Usually they learn real quick to attempt it in my presence so they can ask questions/get support.[/quote]

Okay, but that's just for high school students. Now do elementary. For those 3rd graders who get a week to learn their multiplication tables. Or the 5th graders struggling with multiplying fractions.  You don't think those kids would benefit from having some homework sent home?[/quote]

No, because they still don’t know how to do it at home so as one of the PP’s mentioned, they’re either getting them all wrong and/or they’re doing it incorrectly.[/quote]
Parents can help with this.  :wink: [/quote]

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