No homework across the pond?

Sharon

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The teachers argue that compulsory homework should be scrapped for primary school children and cut back for teenagers because the pressure it causes is a key factor in childhood unhappiness.

"I think a lot of homework is a waste of time. It puts a huge amount of stress, particularly on children from disadvantaged homes.”

For these poorer children, who do not have books, computers and well-educated parents to help, homework can lead to resentment of school, she said.
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Teachers call for Royal Commission into 'why children are so unhappy' | the Daily Mail

Let's not make them eat veggies either. :duh:
 
Vince

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Homework never hurt anyone. Of course some of my teachers got carried away with it and gave it to you like it was the only subject you had to worry about. I didn't have the best educated parents either and they couldn't help me with alot of the Math, etc., but they did what they could. As far as worrying about the stress these kids are under :bs: Just as much stress today as there was when we were kids.
 
mAlice

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I think homework should be done away with. These days it's an avenue for teachers to get out of doing their jobs. Send it home and let the parents teach them how to do it.
 
Sharon

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mAlice said:
I think homework should be done away with. These days it's an avenue for teachers to get out of doing their jobs. Send it home and let the parents teach them how to do it.
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Homework builds practice and repetition upon the lessons learned during the school day. It's part of the learning process. If the parents can't help them through simple elementary school work, it's probably because they didn't do theirs. :lol:
 
mAlice

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Sharon said:
Homework builds practice and repetition upon the lessons learned during the school day. It's part of the learning process. If the parents can't help them through simple elementary school work, it's probably because they didn't do theirs. :lol:
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That would be fine, if that's what I saw come home, but it wasn't. I was seeing stuff that had not been covered in class...most of the time.
 
Sharon

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It's hard to say what children learn in school these days. I know I was spending 3-4 hours a night helping 3 kids understand what to do concerning their homework. Either they didn't pay attention or something got lost in the translation and the teacher didn't have enough time to help each student individually. I finally decided to home school. If I was going to spend that much time teaching them, a few more hours didn't matter and I knew they were learning something.
 
mAlice

mAlice

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Sharon said:
It's hard to say what children learn in school these days. I know I was spending 3-4 hours a night helping 3 kids understand what to do concerning their homework. Either they didn't pay attention or something got lost in the translation and the teacher didn't have enough time to help each student individually. I finally decided to home school. If I was going to spend that much time teaching them, a few more hours didn't matter and I knew they were learning something.
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Exactly. I often found, while helping with homework, that they hadn't even covered a section of the book they were getting homework on. I know this because I had the schedule that the teachers handed out at the beginning of the year. Assignments due before they had been covered in class.
 
ylexot

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mAlice said:
Exactly. I often found, while helping with homework, that they hadn't even covered a section of the book they were getting homework on. I know this because I had the schedule that the teachers handed out at the beginning of the year. Assignments due before they had been covered in class.
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Maybe we need to teach the teachers how to teach :shrug:
 
Vince

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Sharon said:
It's hard to say what children learn in school these days. I know I was spending 3-4 hours a night helping 3 kids understand what to do concerning their homework. Either they didn't pay attention or something got lost in the translation and the teacher didn't have enough time to help each student individually. I finally decided to home school. If I was going to spend that much time teaching them, a few more hours didn't matter and I knew they were learning something.
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That's one thing that always pizzed me off about homework, the next day the teacher would just bypass it and go on to something else. Or you'd get homework on stuff that wasn't covered in class yet. :banghead: And when you asked it was, "Oh, I just wanted to see how you would do on that, we're covering it today." :doh:
 
ylexot

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Pandora said:
I think we should dump more money into education to fix the problem. :sarcasm:
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I have no problem with dumping money into education. The problem is that the idiots in charge try to fix things by doing things like getting rid of red markers because they hurt the childen's self esteem :wah: They then complain about having to make kids take tests :wah: And we can't fail anyone because it hurts their self esteem :wah:
 
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