Why School Districts Across the Country Are Banning Homework - The Wall Street Journal
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Homework or no homework?
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I have no problem with homework. Make it age appropriate. My son is in kindergarten and he has homework and it’s fine. He has to practice writing a sentence with his “popcorn” words or draw a picture of something that starts wth the letter of the week or work on a computer “game” the teacher assigned.
With that said I think it can be a little excessive at times but i think it’s necessary to
Get extra practice at home
With that said I think it can be a little excessive at times but i think it’s necessary to
Get extra practice at home
Kentucky is still fighting to hang on to corporal punishment.
https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/B...punishment-in-Kentucky-schools-502510782.html
https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/B...punishment-in-Kentucky-schools-502510782.html
I think 6-8 hours a day should be plenty of that time is being used effectively.
Outside of maybe random projects where there can be some benefit to be working with parents, I see no reason for a kid to have homework until 8th or 9th grade.
Outside of maybe random projects where there can be some benefit to be working with parents, I see no reason for a kid to have homework until 8th or 9th grade.
homework should be to practice what the kids already know. sending things home with kids when they don't know how to do it does them no good as chances are, most of the shit for brained parents don't either.
people crying about kids having homework . . . what the hairy fvck................................................
people crying about kids having homework . . . what the hairy fvck................................................
“The goal of the changes is to give students more time to read, sleep and spend time with family...”
Seriously....it’s to eliminate extra grading work for teachers.
The end result: give students more time to watch YouTube, play video games, and post to Snapchat.
Seriously....it’s to eliminate extra grading work for teachers.
The end result: give students more time to watch YouTube, play video games, and post to Snapchat.
Every article I’ve read on it says the teachers oppose it. You find something to show this is pushed by teachers? I’d be interested in reading that if you could provide it.
For example this was the quote from the linked article....
“Homework changes have been met with concern by some teachers, who say it takes away a tool to reinforce the day’s lesson, and parents who feel left out of the academic process”
I guess we should expect another teacher walkout demanding students continue to receive homework if this policy continues to spread.
And he has no experience teaching, and his immediate family has no experience teaching, but dammit, his daughters referred preferred acceptance to ITT.
You have to remember, liarherdfan is the expert on every topic ever brought up on this board, because in his own words, he has lunch daily with leaders in all of those industries.
Forget about any logic in his argument seeing that teachers can whip through grading papers, especially at the elementary level. Forget any basis for his argument in that teacher actually oppose this ban.
Liarherdfan knows that teachers just want more pay for less work, and that's that!
No evidence??? The evidence is in the headline. “School districts across the country...”
Are not the administrators who make these policy decisions, not....“educators” ? (aka “teachers”)
Like I said, if teachers are so concerned about no homework policy, i’ll expect them in mass to rise up, walk out and start protesting “across the country”.
Not to change the subject, but since the OP is a teacher, just wondering if anyone saw WSAZ at 6:00 pm this evening on the school district (in Seattle?) decided to move their start time from 7:50 am to 8:45 am? They tracked a select number of students and found they got 34 more minutes of sleep per night, reduced tardiness and absenteeism and increased test scores by 5%. I know 5% isn’t a lot but it is an increase.
My first grader has Spanish hw once a week and while it takes ten minutes at most to complete, it is an act of Congress to get him to do it. He’s a chip off the old block for sure.
I saw that as well. I’m not really sure what to make of it. There’s been a lot written about the negative effects of sleep deprivation over the last few years not only with school children, but with the general population as well. We live in a sleep deprived society. A lot of it is self imposed. We could simply go to bed earlier, but we allow our busy lives to dictate our sleep patterns or simply choose to stay up later. I’m as guilty as anyone. I’ve been going to bed earlier but end up waking up between 3:30 and 4:30 wide awake. I just grab my kindle and read till 5:00 and then get up. My choice. So I think we have the ability to get more sleep without changing schedules. But if those numbers are correct and continue to hold up under repeated studies, I guess there could possibly be some value. Good luck with the upset parents who would have to figure out supervision of their kids for an extra hour in the morning when it conflicts with their work schedule.
If the kids wouldn’t play video games or snap chat or text until midnight or later starting at 750 wouldn’t be an issues
I never remember school starting to early. That was just the deal. You got up and went to school. I don't remember a lot of homework until maybe junior high.
We started high school at 720 and was out by 230. Go to bed at a decent hour and it was no problem
It's not just the starting time, but when the bus actually picks up these kids. That's especially an issue in rural counties. Because the routes are so spread out, some of these kids are being picked up well before 6am.
I'll throw another school item for discussion into it. In the county and school I teach in, every single kid gets free breakfast and free lunch. When there is an after school program they are fed again after school free. It used to be free and reduced lunches were based on income. The schools even have programs where they put together food packages for needy kids that go home with them on Friday. That program isn't paid for by the school system, but all the others mentioned are.
It's hard to be against feeding kids, but that used to be just for the needy.
I'll throw another school item for discussion into it. In the county and school I teach in, every single kid gets free breakfast and free lunch. When there is an after school program they are fed again after school free. It used to be free and reduced lunches were based on income. The schools even have programs where they put together food packages for needy kids that go home with them on Friday. That program isn't paid for by the school system, but all the others mentioned are.
It's hard to be against feeding kids, but that used to be just for the needy.
Exactly. In elementary school the bus arrived at the house at 6:45 a.m. and dropped me off after school at 5 p.m. I was not the first kid on the bus, nor the last to get home.
i'm all for it. it's proven that many kids on free/reduced wouldn't eat for fear of being made fun of. make all student breakfast/lunch and after school snacks &/or dinners, if the system provides them, free and it erases the issue of student's being embarrassed for that reason. and, since child nutrition reimbursements from the federal government is based on student participation in the program, the reimbursements increase substantially in effect paying for the lost revenue from charged students. a local district is actually putting fewer local funds into the child nutrition program now because of going this route than they did when they were charging.
1) I would ride the bus for almost an hour while a student at Pocahontas County High School. Got all my homework done during that time.
2) My kids do nothing but homework.
3) 99% of the "problems" in both stories could be fixed by parents and teachers working together and firing 95% of administrators.
2) My kids do nothing but homework.
3) 99% of the "problems" in both stories could be fixed by parents and teachers working together and firing 95% of administrators.
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