Anonymous wrote:Did you ever email a high school teacher and asked them to stop giving homework?

I don't mind reasonable HW. Busy work and projects I could do without, and they are not very effective. That said, I wish they'd limit the HOURS per night of HW. It's college level but without the free hours of college to do it. It gets to be way too much.

Anonymous wrote:I begged our school and child's teacher to send homework last year when he tanked the math assessments. They refused. Said they were a proud "no homework" school. Then they said my child was missing a lot of math he should have learned during Covid. Then they said they weren't responsible for teaching that information as it was from a previous grade and that we should hire a tutor.

You can easily print homework sheets for free online if you want more. Or get a workbook on Amazon and work your way through it.

This was the standard for me. I got Cs in MS and As in HS.

MS: Get home from school... mess around and start watching TV and knock out easy homework. Eat dinner and/or go to county bball practice for an hour or two.
Get home and watch some more tv/eat dinner/do homework, talk on phone, play sega genesis.

HS: Go to practice after school. Wait for your ride, get home and eat dinner and watch in living color or seinfeld reruns and do about 60-75 minutes of homework. procrastinate as much as reasonably possible based on assignment dates. wait until sunday afternoon to try and read all the chapters of whatever book you were reading, so that you could answer the quiz questions the next day.

I also worked Math homework usually by doing the homework in class and ignoring most lectures.

Kids waste a lot of time these days.

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Anonymous wrote:No. We need to go the opposite direction and restore it in ES and MS.

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I agree! Restore homework, especially in upper ES and in MS!

If MS students had 20-30 minutes of homework for each class they take each day, they'd only have 60-90 minutes of homework each night because they only take 4 classes each day, and certain classes (PE and Mascot Time) do not have homework. So even if a kid had a tough schedule (four core classes in one day), that means their other day is much easier, so they can split the homework up over the two days.

The schools not giving homework is contributing to the laziness of this generation.

4 x 30 is 120 minutes aka 2 hours. You want 12-14 year old kids to spend upwards of 8 hrs per week on homework?

Do most MS kids have enough other things going on that an hour or two of HW a day instead of Insta/TikTok/YouTube is going to be problematic? That should not be a problem for mine, as long as the weekend can be used for doing the work as well.

Middle school is when sports get serious, kids start finding and focusing on ECs and they can start volunteering on their own

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Anonymous wrote:No. We need to go the opposite direction and restore it in ES and MS.

+1

I agree! Restore homework, especially in upper ES and in MS!

If MS students had 20-30 minutes of homework for each class they take each day, they'd only have 60-90 minutes of homework each night because they only take 4 classes each day, and certain classes (PE and Mascot Time) do not have homework. So even if a kid had a tough schedule (four core classes in one day), that means their other day is much easier, so they can split the homework up over the two days.

The schools not giving homework is contributing to the laziness of this generation.

4 x 30 is 120 minutes aka 2 hours. You want 12-14 year old kids to spend upwards of 8 hrs per week on homework?

Do most MS kids have enough other things going on that an hour or two of HW a day instead of Insta/TikTok/YouTube is going to be problematic? That should not be a problem for mine, as long as the weekend can be used for doing the work as well.

I begged our school and child's teacher to send homework last year when he tanked the math assessments. They refused. Said they were a proud "no homework" school. Then they said my child was missing a lot of math he should have learned during Covid. Then they said they weren't responsible for teaching that information as it was from a previous grade and that we should hire a tutor.

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Anonymous wrote:No. We need to go the opposite direction and restore it in ES and MS.

+1

I agree! Restore homework, especially in upper ES and in MS!

If MS students had 20-30 minutes of homework for each class they take each day, they'd only have 60-90 minutes of homework each night because they only take 4 classes each day, and certain classes (PE and Mascot Time) do not have homework. So even if a kid had a tough schedule (four core classes in one day), that means their other day is much easier, so they can split the homework up over the two days.

The schools not giving homework is contributing to the laziness of this generation.

4 x 30 is 120 minutes aka 2 hours. You want 12-14 year old kids to spend upwards of 8 hrs per week on homework?

Yes.

Our elementary school does not provide much homework at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to "practice makes perfect?"

Isn’t it “Perfect practice makes perfect”? If the child is incorrectly practicing math hw for example, won’t that just make it more difficult to undo the misunderstanding?

But, if he turns in the homework, the teacher will see the problem.

Teachers rarely have time to actually look at daily homework from kids. They go over it whole class and have kids mark it correct or incorrect themselves. They know some parents help anyway so it’s not a true representation of what the student can do. They rely on in class assignments and quizzes/tests to determine a child’s true understanding of the subject.

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Anonymous wrote:No. We need to go the opposite direction and restore it in ES and MS.

+1

I agree! Restore homework, especially in upper ES and in MS!

If MS students had 20-30 minutes of homework for each class they take each day, they'd only have 60-90 minutes of homework each night because they only take 4 classes each day, and certain classes (PE and Mascot Time) do not have homework. So even if a kid had a tough schedule (four core classes in one day), that means their other day is much easier, so they can split the homework up over the two days.

The schools not giving homework is contributing to the laziness of this generation.

4 x 30 is 120 minutes aka 2 hours. You want 12-14 year old kids to spend upwards of 8 hrs per week on homework?

Anonymous wrote:Most MS "homework" is work kids were supposed to do in class, but they wasted their time there and then have to finish at home (if they do and hand in the work at all).

Or they are given time to start at the end of the period and expected to finish at home. It doesn’t mean they wasted time. It means there wasn’t enough time given in class because it was given at the end of the period. Or it’s a longer assignment and they can’t devote any more class time to it so they have to finish at home.

Most MS "homework" is work kids were supposed to do in class, but they wasted their time there and then have to finish at home (if they do and hand in the work at all).

Anonymous wrote:Homework in ES is not appropriate most of the time and is busy work. HW in highschool is needed for practice and mastery of concept. HW in MS is preparation and learning how to manage time

My kids are in lower ES and do not get homework from school (aside from the suggested 20 min of reading/day), so they ask me to come up with things for them to do and they call it “homework.” They like to play teacher and give out homework assignments, get quizzes on simple math problems, etc… I wish they would give out age-appropriate homework assignments to normalize it as part of their day.

Anonymous wrote:All of my students in ES who don’t do any homework are all below grade level. They just don’t get enough practice at school.

My 6th grader has an reading report and a math packet every week. I prefer what I had in college/grad school- assigned readings and problem sets, but ungraded.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to "practice makes perfect?"

Isn’t it “Perfect practice makes perfect”? If the child is incorrectly practicing math hw for example, won’t that just make it more difficult to undo the misunderstanding?

But, if he turns in the homework, the teacher will see the problem.

Teachers rarely have time to actually look at daily homework from kids. They go over it whole class and have kids mark it correct or incorrect themselves. They know some parents help anyway so it’s not a true representation of what the student can do. They rely on in class assignments and quizzes/tests to determine a child’s true understanding of the subject.