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Why don't schools simulate a typical 9 to 5 work week for students and remove homework entirely? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I know this is typical for the US so this is more for US people to respond to. I wouldn't say that it is the best system for work, just wondering about the disconnect.

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  1. We shouldn't be forcing our children to spend the majority of their waking lives chained to a desk doing menial work mixed with some valuable education and instead allow them to actually be kids and be outside doing kid things.

I'm a private teacher and I see so many kids who are like, I am in school from 8-3:30, then from 3:50-5 I'm in softball, then I'm in a study group from 5:30-7. I go to bed at 9.

Kids aren't allowed to be kids much of the time anymore. Most everything seems to be in the duality of either "Glued to their devices" or "Endless cycle of extracurricular and studying"

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I absolutely refused to do homework back in the day. I had one math teacher that took your median grade and used that as the final grade. I would calculate to the assignment what it took to get an a, and do that much homework between arriving to class and the time she checked homework in.

    I would always rush to complete my assignments early in other classes do any homework that I could get done before class change. I always aced my tests.

    I think the worst was when the teacher would assign us to read ahead of chapter for the next days lesson. Yeah so you want me to be miserable tonight, and double bored tomorrow.

    I also hated that the teachers never communicated. They would unintentionally group-assign hours of workload in non-GT classes.

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