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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm also a PhD in STEM and recognize that education has changed since we were there.  The cohort had gotten more competitive in areas that don't actually help a STEM career - like really did I need the AP Psyc or History class? No, I didn't for my career but now they are necessary for competitive colleges.  My kids don't actually do much homework because I send them to selective private school that recognizes extra is not always better.  The elementary kid has 10 min a day and the MS kid has about 4 hrs a week total, including projects on weekends. Because publics are catering to a larger band of abilities a lot of work gets sent home to learn.  I've seen many kids come to private from public for this reason.  Work is taught at school and a few things are sent home to practice or study.  The kids at the school achieve top marks in standardized tests (ACT/SAT/AP) and still have time for extracurriculars.  Too much homework comes at the expense of other things need need to learn, like being a productive member of their community and family, sports, art, music, etc.[/quote]

Usually private schools give more homework than public FYI[/quote]

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