Homework isn't beneficial - Almost Confirmed

Paddycrumlinman · 08-10-2010 04:44PM

I agree to a point with regards homework for kids, especially young kids. My son who is 7 and attends school here in Florida has it rough to the point he hardly has any free time in the evenings.

His school day starts at 7:20am. That's a 6:15 am he is up at in the morning. He finishes school at 2pm. Home work starts at around 4pm and does not finish until sometimes 6 - 7pm depending on what he has to do.

It's ridiculous to the point the kids get burned out and there is no family time because while doing homework, I'm trying to get my daughter to do hers also, while trying to prepare a family meal, get the kids bathed, into bed by 8:30pm since they are up at 6 in the morning. It's very tough on them.

Not sure what Its like in Ireland now, but When I was 7 years old I did not have to do nearly half as much as my son in the American system.

In my opinion, the school system in the states prepares kids for how fooking busy you are in life for an early age. It robs them of their childhood in a way because I see how many kids panicking due to the amount of work they have to do. Their fooking 7 year olds for Jesus sakes... .drives me nuts.

I'm all about kids learning but you have to allow children to be children at the same time. You have to find a balance.

Fionn MacCool · 08-10-2010 04:53PM

Said this for years when I was in school, but as usual you just get told to **** off because you're a child so your opinion clearly isn't worth anything. Same went for the horrendous teachers I had, I was told that I was just a pupil so my opinion meant nothing. I'm 21 now and looking back, I still think some of those teachers were terrible.

I remember in Business class (I did A-Levels) we had a teacher who spent every single lesson making us do practise exam papers in silence, and then our homework was to study the topics. I pointed out that that was pretty much the opposite way around to what it should be and was sent out of the lesson.

spiralism · 08-10-2010 05:01PM

its a waste of time, but we all had to do it... they'll be looking at getting rid of classes next at this rate

maybe they should look into preventing excessive amounts of it, true, but getting rid of it would be a bad idea as well.... when i was in school a few years back the workload was decent but never too heavy and it did prove beneficial for revision and all that

Rebelheart · 08-10-2010 06:12PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

When I have kids I'm making them do homework even if their teacher doesn't give them any.

No child of mine is going to be a moran moreon idiot.

An idiot (indefinite article 'an' comes before a vowel sound)

Pookah · 08-10-2010 06:14PM

WindSock wrote: »

Up With Miniskirts!

Down with school trousers.

Dionysus · 08-10-2010 07:37PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

put your hand up if you want to talk

And that means no shouting 'Sir! Sir!' while your hand is up. That one takes some time to sink in!

The vast majority of kids are great, just as the vast majority of adults are reasonable and fair-minded about what it's like to teach a class of 30 students. But it takes one or two arseholes to ruin the ability of the other students to learn. And it takes one or two arsehole parents to make life hell for a teacher who is trying her/his best. The good parents bring issues up directly with the teacher first. The arsehole parents accept their child's account and try to blacken the teacher's name with the school management first. The average Irish teacher on 22 hours teaches hundreds of students on a regular basis each week. That's a shít load of parents and chances for the teacher to not get everything perfect. All these seemingly perfect parents in their perfect jobs who never make mistakes.

As for homework: it's very good when it reinforces classwork. As somebody said earlier, it is a superb way to encourage "autonomous learning" on the part of the student. The fact that they can work stuff out themselves at home can be a huge source of confidence and self-belief in a child. Anything which encourages that is sound in my book.

FruitLover · 08-10-2010 07:56PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

actually an organisation set up and run by enterprising 9 year olds?

Sneaky beggars.

They've obviously been doing their homework!

Eh, I mean...

Hang on... ...

fonecrusher1 · 08-10-2010 07:59PM

liah wrote: »

Too often teachers shirk actually teaching and just give the kid homework to do out of class so they don't have to deal with interaction or having to actually help the child one-on-one.

This describes a few teachers i had in school.^

Particularly my maths teacher in 5th & 6th year. She was a sh!t teacher. Simple as that & i wasn't the only person to claim this at the time. She'd march in, rant at us for 30 minutes with her piercing monotone scream, answer very few questions & always always give us lots of homework that half the class would get wrong because she didn't properly show us how to work out similar problems in class.

She gave me a report card once because i asked her several questions one after the other & she claimed i was trying to humiliate her????WTF? My parents were called in, lots of talks with the principal & it ended up the report card was revoked.;)

An appalling teacher who seemed very much unable/frightened to interact with students. Bit of a problem really isn't it given her job requirements?...

Smcgie · 08-10-2010 08:05PM

I wonder is it that they just couldnt be arsed with the extra work now as their wages are cut

galwayrush · 08-10-2010 08:08PM

Wife used to be a teacher before she fell ill, but going on her experiences in the staffroom, a lot of teachers are too bloody lazy to correct homework.

galwayrush · 08-10-2010 08:10PM

A dumbing down of our kids will lead to dumber adults which is one sure way of ensuring the future of FF and the Greens.:eek:

Rockshandy90 · 08-10-2010 08:26PM

It does depend on the teacher but if they are a good teacher the homework will be beneficial. Granted maybe for primary school it mightn't have as much of a purpose since everything is done step by step in school with them but in secondary school the students are older and should be a little bit responsible for their own learning.
For my Leaving Cert I didn't do a major amount of study or anything but I always did my homework and properly and I got over 500 points so I would argue that it is very beneficial.

Homework isn't beneficial - Almost Confirmed

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