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elleng

(135,687 posts)
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 12:39 PM Aug 2016

Letter on homework policy goes viral.

'After much research this summer, I am trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this year.

Research had been unable to prove that homework improves student performance, Rather, I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eating dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early.'

http://www.9news.com/news/nation-now/letter-on-homework-policy-goes-viral/305135015

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Letter on homework policy goes viral. (Original Post) elleng Aug 2016 OP
I rarely had homework in elementary school because I could complete... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #1
Cool but safeinOhio Aug 2016 #2
There has to to be a balance exboyfil Aug 2016 #3
My daughter has several teachers with this POV AwakeAtLast Aug 2016 #4

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,026 posts)
1. I rarely had homework in elementary school because I could complete...
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 12:49 PM
Aug 2016

... all of it at school. It was supposed to be homework, however.

My elementary school years were mostly a waste academically because the teachers weren't very good.

I had a teacher confiscate a coin from New Zealand that I was showing to another student at recess as punishment for me "lying" about it being real money! I was only in first grade, yet I knew even then that various types of coins existed in the world. A third-grade teacher confidently told us that the sky was blue because it reflected the color of the oceans! I knew that she was an idiot too.

Thank goodness that my junior high and high school teachers were smart and competent. I started to enjoy school at about that time as well.

exboyfil

(17,923 posts)
3. There has to to be a balance
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 01:08 PM
Aug 2016

but no way someone becomes proficient in writing or mathematics during the time allotted in class. I would be a fan of flipped lectures at the high school level though. The students watch the lecture on the subject before class, and the class period is taken up with applying the information provided in the lecture (ie homework, class projects etc).

AwakeAtLast

(14,242 posts)
4. My daughter has several teachers with this POV
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 09:21 PM
Aug 2016

Guess which classes she eagerly enjoys and is most successful in?

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