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    Quote Originally Posted by Adolf_Twitler View Post
    It was High School!

    Incidently Dr. Lomas had just recently acquired his Doctor's degree and went on to teach at SMU after our graduation!

    He was everyone's favorite teacher! We were all lucky to be his students!
    Sounds like a great teacher.

    Totally random but my father taught at SMU when I was a kid. Loved that school

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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    This is just another way to dumb down our schools so non-whites and non-asians have it easier.
    What? The guards haven't turned the lights down in your cell yet?

    Well Golly Gomer!
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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    local school boards
    LOL...

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Sounds like a great teacher.

    Totally random but my father taught at SMU when I was a kid. Loved that school
    I took a couple of non-credit IT courses there myself in the 80's. Great school!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adolf_Twitler View Post
    I took a couple of non-credit IT courses there myself in the 80's. Great school!
    We were there from '79-'81. Lived only a block from campus. Good times

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    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.
    Interesting. Do you think many teachers share your philosophy or is it all over the board?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    No ,we do not have government schools @#$&. Never had, never will.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Interesting. Do you think many teachers share your philosophy or is it all over the board?
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    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?

    https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Town-Fan...63277535&psc=1

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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".

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    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?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Totally random but thought of you when I came across this book on OKC. You familiar with it?

    https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Town-Fan...63277535&psc=1
    No, I hadn’t heard of it but it looks like a good read. (I googled it ). The last book you mentioned about OK was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by montgomery View Post
    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?
    Do you know why China in particular and Asian countries (like South Korea) do so well academically, especially in science and math? Please tell us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    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.
    Nothing better than those old flash cards with my dad for getting arithmetic down.
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