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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just started teaching in FCPS.  We give minimal homework and only because they said we have to this year.  I have 90 minutes of planning time twice a week to get ready for 6 hours of teaching a day, plus all the ridiculous nonsense admin insists we do that does nothing but add work.  We haven't even started the year and I've barely slept all week, hardly had time to eat, and am already feeling like I'm going to either cry or throw up at the amount of work I am expected to do before Monday. I haven't seen my children or husband all week, and the year hasn't even started.  It's going to be a million times worse next week.

So no, I'm not sending a bunch of work home so you can feel good about it and it can add to my already enormous grading workload.  I'm at my limit.  Your kid doesn't need homework.  Studies show it doesn't even make any difference.[/quote]
It works if it’s done right. Curious. What did teachers do 20 years ago when they were regularly assigning homework?[/quote]

Very good question.

What did they do when teacher workdays weren't a thing either?[/quote]

Back then we had 6 periods every day.  I had 3 classes, 2 planning periods, and a lunch. Sometimes one of my planning periods was a study hall, but I never had less than one planning period a day.  Lunch was 50 minutes (not the 20 I have now).  Admin never came into class and we had very few meetings.  We had textbooks for everything and were expected to use them.  ESL and SPED were in separate classes and kids were ability grouped for advanced classes.  We did take home grading, maybe once or twice a week, and that rarely took more than a few hours a week max.  And that's if it was an essay or something.  We all had classrooms in the building and no one was out in a trailer that required a 5 minute walk just to get to your next class.  No one expected us to stand outside the door to our classroom during transition periods (we used them for bathroom breaks, which apparently aren't a thing anymore).  It was always a job that required a lot of work and engagement, but it was never impossible to the absurd point that FCPS has made it.  [/quote]
So the real problem seems to be student demographics are too difficult. Supporting parents are limited to ~20% of the students. And admin does even less to support teacher’s teaching.

Students have advisory/homeroom that they didnt have before and zero days also eat into usable hours. I’d argue that current block schedule provides even less time to teach material.

I’d say homework still works, and you admit so, but just not for our current demographics. Many grades in FCPS dont assign reading homework either. I suspect it’s for the same reasons.  [/quote]

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