myrmepropagandistHow old were you when you finally realized that teachers don't like homework or eat it or really want it, but rather just want you to do it so you might learn something and that we don't really want to grade it but do that since otherwise you might not do it?
Kelsey Jordahl@futurebird I am not sure this ever occurred to me until I graded homework as a TA in college.
Queen of Anxiety@futurebird My mom was a teacher so I pretty much always knew.
keith@queenofnewyork @futurebird same - mom & stepdad were profs. grading papers and tests was a chore for them often done on the dinning room table.
Joe ❌👑@futurebird Homework is beneficial but too much is assigned, especially to younger students, and the trend has been to assign more and more. I understand that a number of European countries have cut back on it considerably and the kids still do well.
ProcrastinatorExtr@futurebird I went to public school during the golden age of US educational experimentation - mid-60’s to early 70’s. New math and learning pods etc. Our teachers didn’t believe in homework either. We rarely had any. It was glorious.
@BLA @futurebird ditto. No letter grades in elementary school either. Such freedom.
@futurebird
I thought this was the case until about age 15.
I thought that they hated correcting homework, but loved us more and were putting in the work only so we could improve.
At 15, I thought that was only true of most teachers & still do.
My biology teacher had students, mostly girls, at his house to get drunk.
Mt social studies teacher wouldn’t give lessons or homework, & just talked about how he was 2 years from retirement.
My chemistry teacher other issues.
…but most.
I thought this was the case until about age 15.
I thought that they hated correcting homework, but loved us more and were putting in the work only so we could improve.
At 15, I thought that was only true of most teachers & still do.
My biology teacher had students, mostly girls, at his house to get drunk.
Mt social studies teacher wouldn’t give lessons or homework, & just talked about how he was 2 years from retirement.
My chemistry teacher other issues.
…but most.
Rory@futurebird myrmepropagandist: I think I was probably seven or so. Up till then, I thought homework was something grownups only did.
deilann v -0.2.1. 
8, when my mom was a TA and gave me a rubric and class assignments to pregrade for her
it was reinforced by college math classes where most homework was ungraded
Jen Costillo 
@futurebird somewhere in my mid-50’s I guess.
yelling jackal@futurebird was pretty young when I realised no one liked homework at all in any part of the process, maybe 8? For the "you might learn something" the only point I ever felt that from a teacher was in university third year. Up until then homework was busywork, and any other extraclass work was project based that was less "learn stuff" and more "do this to prove skills". Never felt that any teacher cared that I finished it other than to tick a box or to make sure I ticked a box and didn't get into issues with exam committee or whatever.
The only reason I did it was that I'd get into trouble otherwise, or because I liked the teacher and for some reason they cared about me passing things, couldn't have cared less about grading.
The only reason I did it was that I'd get into trouble otherwise, or because I liked the teacher and for some reason they cared about me passing things, couldn't have cared less about grading.
Janne Moren@futurebird
Way too late. Because no teacher ever actually *told* us.
Just be upfront about it, please.
🌺@futurebird The way I would ace every test, show understanding of the lesson and still fail the class or just barely pass with a D makes me believe they were eating it. And not just the paper, there had to be some special property of home hours spent and student suffering for the meal to have any sustenance.
I get some kids seemingly needing homework as well as teachers not being able to personalize the curriculum much, but the way homework hindered my education and wasted my time makes me think there must be a better way.
KanaMaunaPretty early on as two of my grandparents were teachers. Also my grandmother use to take me to help her organize the school library on the weekends.
Jayne 
🇪🇺🏳️🌈In my secondary school, it was called “preparation” rather than “homework” and the emphasis was that it would consolidate that days’ learning and prepare you for the next sessions of learning.
This was at a private school in the UK from 1967-1975.