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As a lifelong teacher, homework should be abolished.
At every grade level.
No research we have supports homework as being effective, and most of it (like teaching grammar) *ACTIVELY HARMS STUDENTS*.
(Except maybe some very mild homework in math and a couple of highly specific sciences).
@Impossible_PhD wait wait wait
great thread, okay, I'm not arguing with the homework discussion, it's totally there to teach idleness is bad
but, why do you think teaching grammar is ...bad? like...grammar is one of the few things that helps language become comfortably predictable?
@draNgNon @Impossible_PhD I don't think anyone is saying grammar is bad, it's just useless in take-home worksheet form.
Either kids will pick it up organically by reading (hopefully things they enjoy!) or they need someone who can answer questions live, like "why is it 'the big brown cat' but never, ever 'the brown big cat?'"
@pelielios that last is kind of what I was thinking by saying "comfortably predictable", especially for ESL students (since I'm in the US); if a student is/was not able to pick it up organically, having it laid out in class by a good teacher is great.
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