Homework *groan*

[joebryant]

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Thanks! I think that this is proof positive that something has to be done legally about children's having to tolerate such.

I taught for school from the time I was 19 until retiring at 59. Almost always, the only homework my students had to do was what they didn't have time to finish in class.
I wonder how many adults would want to work 40 hours and be expected to take work home with them.

LEGALLY?

WHAT?You mean you're actually going to complain about HOMEWORK?

You're darn right that I'm against it when it's nothing more than homework for homework's sake. Children are on buses and in school for more than eight hours a day. Classes should be planned for the time allotted, and kids should practice what was taught in CLASS immediately after, not hours after when they're at home unless they didn't have time to finish IN CLASS. No child should have to transport home anywhere close to 40 pounds of ANYTHING.

 

[77horses]

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LEGALLY?

WHAT?You mean you're actually going to complain about HOMEWORK?

You're darn right that I'm against it when it's nothing more than homework for homework's sake. Children are on buses and in school for more than eight hours a day. Classes should be planned for the time allotted, and kids should practice what was taught in CLASS immediately after, not hours after when they're at home unless they didn't have time to finish IN CLASS. No child should have to transport home anywhere close to 40 pounds of ANYTHING.

Agreed. Although usually the homework I get is work I don't finish in class and/or projects to work on. Other than that I sometimes get French homework.

 

[Emzyyy]

I have the same problem. See we have day ones and day twos though with 8 different blocks 4 on each day. So I have half my books one day and half the other day some people own 2 different backpacks. We have halls A-Q so its a bit hard to use your locker inbetween classes with only 5 minutes and people pushing to get places. Most people don't even know where their lockers are at...I use my gym locker for my running stuff thats about it. My straps ripped on my old backpack thats how much I carried.

 

[joebryant]

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The teachers do. I just read 30 essays this weekend.

Yep, I did the same thing for 40 years. It's no wonder that teachers in other countries call us work hogs. Not only do we have to grade papers at home, we have to do grades, chaperone sports games, etc. with no extra pay usually. That's why Anne and I told our two kids when they were ready for college that we would pay all of their expenses, but if they wanted to become teachers, we wouldn't give them a dime. If teaching had been anything like it is now when I began teaching, I'd've walked out the first morning. It just got worse and worse during the last 30 years. In spite of all that, Anne and I liked teaching, but now that we're retired and look back at how society used us, we'd flip hamburgers before we'd do it again.

 

[Kesta]

joebryant if u can make it illegal to give homework for homeworks sake i will forever be in your debt!

 

[chickenlittle32]

I have 2 third graders that have more homework than my 7th grader. About 2 hrs worth EVERY night (except for Fridays). My oldest son has bout 30-45 mins of homework a night. (not counting projects) It's crazy for them to have this much.

 

[silkieluver_07]

My american literature book weigh 7 pounds 8 ounces. That's one more ounce then I was born!! Oh, and thats not including all my other English books and novels.

 

[chickenmum]

Wow, is it good for me that I'm home-schooled!!

My sis and I take school around with us places and the bags can get pretty heavy, but that's not every day.
And my school work usually lasts all day but that is at home or around at places.
And I reeeeeeeeeeely love my teacher!

The thing is, we get behind pretty easily, now we are still finishing up last year's school!
(Although we did take a break for the fair)
chickenmum

 

[eaganchickens]

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A Macbook weighs 5 pounds.

Sorry, I couldn't help it

 

[warmfuzzies]

I think it is rediculous. If they need to have homework to learn responsibility (which I thought was the parents jobs but whatever) they should cut an equivelant amount of time out of school hours.

Homeschooled children can get an exceptional education in 4 hours (for elementary grades) to 6 hours ( For upper high-school grades) a day. Historically, as time progressed from the beginning of mandated schooling, more and more has been required.

More days in school, then older and younger children in school, then more hours each day. An increasing amount of homework is just another extention of the requirements. And another intrusion into the parents control over their children's days.

And has any of this increased the quality of education? No, as time has gone on, the literacy rate, and the overall level of education has dropped dramatically. Now it takes 12 years (or more) to learn a fraction of what our great-great-great-great-great grandparents learned, in some cases, in a matter of weeks of formal schooling.

I think that teachers and school workers in general are doing a pretty much thankless task against the worst possible odds, and thus deserve our utmost respect and appreciation.