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I think, most people who leave school want to come home and relax and not worry about homework and stuff like that. Some teenagers wanna do something FUN after school! And we have to do homework?
Too much man... Who wants 20 homework assignments due the next day? Not me.
But I do agree that many teachers go over-board with the assigning of the homework (for both good and bad reasons). Some teachers use homework as a learning tool (I know one teacher who would teach Unit 1 in class and then assign Unit 2 for homework on the premise that the students would teach themselves).
Depending on the teacher and the school system in general, I can both agree and disagree that teachers should give less homework.
If you would go to my school, you'd see big heavy backpacks on people's back AND true fact, most of it is OUR HOMEWORK! They say:
'Don't throw it away, you'll need it for a test' or some crazy bullcrap like that. If someone throws away papers they need, let that be their problem. Someone actually has NO time at home at my school. They have to go to activities and by the time they come home, it's time to go to sleep. And so far, he has detentions for missing assignments. It's not HIS fault! He has a job too! He's gotta make money for the dang family!
Anyway, I still think for those who need it, should get the extra work. For some subjects, I'd take extra work, might not do it though. Also, I am (or I think I am) dyslexic and when you give hard homework, it's tough stuff! I remember in 5th grade, I stayed up until 1 A.M JUST to complete missing assignments AND homework. Not to mention is was nearly 7 assignments!
But still, it's allot of homework and they need to cut down on it. Save some trees, you know?
In the elementary school, most grades (with the possible exception of fifth grade) generally give a half hour of homework a night, an hour tops. By middle and high school, the homework load obviously increases. But if by high school you are doing three hours of homework every night, in my opinion, that is far too much, even for over achievers, especially if you want students to get involved in after school activities and community work and other things that colleges look for. Students often have to give up these extracurriculars because they have too much homework to do, or are on academic probation for not completing their homework, and this should not happen.
There's a brilliant movie - "link" - that addresses the stress that standardized tests and other things are putting on our students, and how it is not the way to help them learn. Studies have shown that after a certain amount of academic reading at a time, students plateau and don't do any more learning until they're rested.
EDIT: Love that xxXsk8trXxx brought up Race to Nowhere before I did. Glad someone saw it through the corporate veil of Waiting for Superman.
I think if they DID take them out, school would be LONGER and we'd get more homework. We also get homework for gym at the end of the unit here in my middle school. Teachers DO want the best because WE ARE the next generation.
But they also have to see, our future starts in our childhood. If we don't have a good childhood, the LAST thing I want to remember is that WE had loads of homework and bad backs! (My doctor was surprised to see my cousin's back).
But MCHopnPop is right. We don't need homework 24/7 in our lives.
Is this because of budget reasons? Or because your school isn't meeting AYP or some other standard? Because I just sat in on a budget meeting, and one of the proposals was to either expand our art program (which right now consists only of art) by hiring a new art/drama teacher to teach some drama classes for the middle school. Being a drama major, I was super on board with that idea, because I remembered how important the subject was to me in middle school. HOWEVER, if we did that, then we wouldn't be able to hire either A) a reading specialist to be an interventionist with poor reading skills for students in all grades OR B) A school counselor to be a resource for our middle school students for any issue from abuse to fights with friends.
I felt like I was making Sophie's Choice. I didn't want to sacrifice the arts for reading and counseling, but those issues are clearly more important. And, when they voted, they chose not to hire a drama teacher. Which hurt me as an artist, but as an educator, I understood.
But THAT was a budgetary decision, and if things work out, we actually might have enough money to hire a drama teacher next year after all (fingers crossed). It was not a decision made because my school was not meeting standards in math and reading. If it were, I probably would not have voted for nixing our art program, because I think that art and drama can often help supplement math and literacy by teaching similar skills. Shakespeare, for example, can easily be taught in drama. My drama teacher, not my English teacher, was the person to finally teach me how to read, understand, and perform Shakespeare, because you have to understand what you, as an actor, are saying if you're going to communicate it to the audience. Because of her, I now have a deep and inappropriate affection for the Bard.
Not to mention that art is the perfect vehicle for which to teach geometry.
The point is, I do understand cutting programs for budgetary reasons, but I do not agree with cutting programs to meet state or national standards. In fact, I have a beef with state and national standards in general, but I won't get into that. (Note: Google "Race to the Top". It's the new No Child Left Behind, but jazzed up by the democrats and slapped with a new brand.)
But Fuck it.
Less homework, please.
The fact that students now define "useful work" as whatever will help them pass the test further underscores what emphasis on testing has done to our educational system.
Ideally, teachers and students ought to define "useful work" as whatever helps foster a deeper understanding of a subject matter. Alas, this is not the case.
Though I know you live in the UK, LoopyLuna, and have a different system, I think that several countries have an over-dependence on standardized assessments. Education shouldn't be about passing tests - but that's what it's become. I don't blame you for it, either. The importance we as a society place on these things is what I blame.
Some studies showed that we retain more information and understand better after taking a break from it, so homework does make you smarter. If you don't do at least some of it you're more likely to forget what you learned.
About an hour of homework most evenings and maybe an essay or project every weekend should be good.
I think some teachers give way too much homework, but a lot don't give enough.
My Dad (who is a headteacher) told me that he thinks homework is the most pointless thing ever, but he has to give. I don't agree with the fact that pupils should HAVE to have homework, they should try and do most of it in the lesson, when we have the teachers to help us. ;L x
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