STOP DOING HOMEWORK
CHILDREN WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPEND TWELVE HOURS A DAY DOING SCHOOLWORK
YEARS OF BUSY WORK yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for replacing free time with MORE SCHOOL
Wanted to learn during your free time anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "THE LIBRARY"
"The assignment is due tomorrow. It is worth 50 percent of your grade." - Statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged
"Sorry can't go out tonight, I have homework"
They have played us for absolute fools
@redsad
Ha. I figured that out in middle school, and stopped doing homework.
I never failed a class, but I made a lot of teachers VERY angry at me. My response was simple: if I knew the material, doing a bunch of busy work was pointless. And they could NEVER prove I didn't know it, because I did.
I'm an advocate of doing enough work to be certain you understand the concept, and then stopping.
If I had kids, their teachers would hate me.
@klardotsh @realtegan @redsad 2.5 GPA, but 2.9 with all the bonus points for Honors and AP classes
Same energy, though
My chemistry teacher admitted I was only the second student she ever had that could pass her class without homework (50% of the grade, but the tests were heavily curved).
@soatok @klardotsh @realtegan @redsad My school's admin was surprised that I got the [high score on state tests] scholarship despite my grades being a C average, simply because they couldn't imagine someone that barely did the homework but had such a rock solid grasp of the material to absolutely nail the tests.
I continued this into college, too: I almost never did the homework in my chemistry class, and yet absolutely nailed the midterm and finals with high 90s. About 20 minutes faster than any other student in the room, too... (although TBF I was hopped up on enough caffeine and prescription stimulants for time to become meaningless...)
My college calc class had a "if you solve some short problems at the beginning of each class, there's no homework for you" policy, and so I got one point shy of perfect in that one...
@bunny_jane @klardotsh @redsad
Doesn't work for everyone, sadly. I ended up in conferences with most of my teachers over homework issues. I told them what I thought of homework, and most of them were reasonable, if utterly exasperated. I recognize that I was lucky.
The one time I couldn't understand something, I spent every day for a week after school with the teacher to figure it out. Word kind of spread. I would put in the work if I had to.
But mostly I didn't have to.
@realtegan @redsad I had a fantastic math teacher who never checked homework. Her policy was that homework is for our benefit - do it because you'll need the practice for the test, or don't, you decide.
I almost never did any because it just didn't work for me (I had other ways of practicing), and as a result massively enjoyed that class more and did better at it than if I did do homework!
She also had the fantastic cheating policy of "if I don't catch you you've earned it", and had a bit of an anarchist spirit, sometimes telling us crazy stories of demonstrations she participated in... What an amazing woman.
I found doing homework problems enormously useful… when I was studying calculus.
There were a couple of other times I probably should have done it, for instance when studying languages, where repetition really does make a huge difference.
But overall, I literally had a teacher once send home a note saying "He is very bright and a joy to have in class, but I cannot recall that he has ever handed in a homework assignment."
@redsad high school homework was the one thing I hated the most out of everything in my life.
i still have nightmares sometimes that I'm failing high school; that I've forgotten to finish homework, go to class.
hell world
Study: Homework achieves nothing, standardized tests are garbage, and students do better with less class time. Here’s 14 pages of evidence.
Schools: We are cutting recess so we can spend more time going over the mountain of homework that we are assigning to prepare for the next standardized test.
(To be fair, often the schools know this is insane, but can’t convince others of it - particularly politicians and, frustratingly, parents.)
Children shouldn't have homework.
There are so many reasons:
Some are carers for disabled or ill parents.
Some don't have supportive parents or even abusive ones.
Some have parents who work shifts and odd hours, or are simply just busy trying to make ends meet.
What about single parents who may have three children who all have homework? It's hard enough as it is.
You can have the best support at home, but ultimately, let children be children!
@redsad
For example, in Poland, teachers were forbidden from giving students homework, but they can still ask students to prepare for a task they'll have to do in class.
So, for example, they can't say
"do exercises 3.10, 3.11 a-d and 3.12 a-b on page 24 and hand them in by tomorrow"
but they can say
"tomorrow I'll be asking random people to do exercises 3.10 3.11 a-d and 3.12 a-b from page 24 by the blackboard, feel free to try doing them at home if you want to be prepared"
Is that better?
@redsad on one hand, it emphasizes the abilities children learn, instead of the grind of adding two numbers 20 times.
So I think that's good.
On the other hand, it frees up the time of those who already know how to do the exercise, could do it in seconds and have the rest of the day off. But it doesn't do anything for those who struggle.
So it doesn't really solve anything for the children who need a solution the most.
@redsad i emigrated to NL and was asking about homework next year (when my child is 6 turning 7) and the teacher and my partner were absolutely bewildered because there mostly just ??? isn't homework until high school age ???
so much better this way my goodness
100% agree!!!
And this is why I rarely did any homework in the 90s!
Everybody thought I was just lazy. Nope, I've got that increased sensitivity to injustice.
And that view, when I got to adulthood, became an understanding homework is designed to prepare you, and desensatize you, for your employer squeezing unpaid labor out of you... stay late, clock in after prepping your station, just send that email...
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