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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love this! DS has a debate tournament coming up and homework should be banned in ES is one of the topics. Keep it coming, because I plan to pass along a link to this thread. [/quote]

ha ha.  A perennial discussion topic. 
Here is some good information for your son:  http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar07/vol64/num06/The-Case-For-and-Against-Homework.aspx

Is another topic about students having cell phones at school?  Just curious.  [/quote]

Lol. Close. Last debate tournament had a is texting evil topic. One of the teams stood up there and kept yelling "Texting is death!!!" (Because of car crashes caused by texting). And this time around, there is a the US should be required to protect extraterrestrial microbial life on other planets topic (I mean, wtf?). Watching middle schoolers debate is mostly about trying to keep a straight face when your child says something like, "my opponent says that that X causes teenage pregnancy. But judge, why is teenage pregnancy a bad thing?  After all, the world needs new babies." [/quote]

I’m not sure the microbial life topic is a good one for MS.  But, it gave me a chuckle.  
Debating is a great skill.  It forces one to look at a topic from all perspectives.  Homework is a great debate topic since there are positives and negatives on both sides.  There are a lot of people who could benefit from looking at topics from multiple perspectives.  [/quote]

Debate is a great activity.  I was iffy on it at first, but have been won over. Even if a middle school debate is the equivalent of a 4th grade strings concert to observe.  Public speaking, poise, thinking on your feet, learning to construct and rebut arguments, working as a member of a team. There's a lot of good skills there. Which is why, back to the actual topic,it would be nice if more homework, even in middle to upper ES, involved things like preparing for a class debate on homework, or cell phones, or uniforms, rather than memorizing spelling lists.  Some amount of really challenging substantive work doesn't bother me. Inane busywork drives me nuts. [/quote]

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