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cawacko (12-12-2018)
My kids get homework at least three nights a week. I try to limit it to about 20 minutes for the average kid. If they can’t give math 20 minutes worth of practice sometime during the day I don’t feel sorry for them. They spend more time than that practicing layups and free throws.
I never give homework on weekends or over extended breaks.
Every objective that I or any other teacher is required to teach comes from a government entity either in OKC or Washington DC. Every dime that pays salaries, electric bills, books and everything else needed to run a [public] school comes from both state and federal government. Cawacko is right ... they’re government schools.
Stretch (12-12-2018)
I really don’t know. Kids can’t learn math without doing math though. I have just learned sometime along the way during 32 years in the classroom that kids do better if you cut them some slack on the homework along the way.
I had tons of homework when I was a kid. Every afternoon (I couldn’t do anything else after I got off the bus until it was done) I’d spend at least an hour, most of the time a little more than that, on homework. We tend to teach like we were taught so when I first started I dished out the homework. I attended some of that boring staff development stuff and in one meeting a guy actually made sense as he made the case for less homework. I tried it and it works for me and my kids. I don’t think you can cut it completely out though.
Totally random but thought of you when I came across this book on OKC. You familiar with it?
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Homework not appropriate for grade school maybe through 8th. Too much growing and developing apart from academics. After that, better be preparing them for what comes after. Not just college, but real life "homework".
Let America's children spend a couple of years figurinng out if the earth is reallly 6000 years old, while China's children are getting into physics in their second year in school! Less homework makes it even more a leadpipe cinch that America can't produce their own high level professionals in the fields of science.
America needs to bring in Chinese people as quick as possible or the US gets left behind. And the really sad thing about it for America is that all the top level brains are going back to China!
Where's Trump when Americans need another minority to hate on?
Bringing reform and decency from Canada, one forum at a time.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
TOP (12-13-2018)
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