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Pass basic calculus without doing a single bit of review or any questions whatsoever at home.
Pass basic calculus without doing a single bit of review or any questions whatsoever at home.
Poll: "There should be NO homework" A petition to get rid of homework in schools.
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A. How come you didn't just burn through it?Berethond said:
B. That's just you. I'm taking Preliminary Calculus in University, and the homework has saved my pasty white derriere... several times.
Homework shouldn't be banned, but a major problem is the spreading out of homework. Because of Thanksgiving, we get a s**t load of homework to make up for lost days! Why don't the teachers communicate so homework doesn't always happen to pile up on one day?!
I don't like the whole thing about homework, though that guy really seems to need to do some. Seriously, he(?) doesn't seem to have the greatest grammatical skills out there.
I guess the reason why we get more and more homework is because it's cheaper than having more time with teachers in school. It's all just numbers anyway. So what if some individuals lose from it, the society saves money from it. (from a strictly over-exaggerated political view =P)
I guess the reason why we get more and more homework is because it's cheaper than having more time with teachers in school. It's all just numbers anyway. So what if some individuals lose from it, the society saves money from it. (from a strictly over-exaggerated political view =P)
Of course there should be homework. Homework is important to reinforcing knowledge learnt at school. The only homework that should be removed is homework for the sake of homework. All homework should contribute to the learning process and if it fails to do that it should be redesigned.
Shit...voted in the wrong one. People really should make the title and poll questions the same so that lazy people like me don't make these mistakes. Anyways, those are pretty poor arguments. Don't overload kids but they need something.
A. There was a freaking TON.lacktheknack said:
I'm talking 2 hours a day. Every day. Several times (AKA once a week) I just say, "Screw this." and go outside.
B. Yes it is just me. And I was referring to high school and before. Obviously, higher-level work is a bit different.
As a self-schooled student for four years (grades 3-6), I can tell you that kids can motivate themselves to do well in school. Self-schooled, for the record, is school by correspondence that says "Here's a textbook and work booklet, your final is in four months, good luck."AndyFromMonday said:
I got an A- on two of the tests, a B on the other (in the Grade Six Departmentals, the tests that actually matter). If kids can't pass the course after being walked through it step-by-step - TWICE, including the review - then they're just lazy.
I've always believed that homework should not be required, but instead used to supplement testing grades.
What I mean to say is that homework should still be offered, and in some cases required, but absolutely should not be used to raise the average grade of the class. The problem with the way we treat homework in the education system stems from the way teachers are regarded financially (in USA, at least).
Teachers are evaluated based on the number of students that pass the course, in addition to the number of students that get high marks. Since not every student is good at taking tests, most teachers supplement the coursework with a significantly weighted homework score to keep the majority of students inside the bell curve. However, this tends to skew the bell curve toward higher average grades - which are not an appropriate measure of learning.
The solution isn't to get rid of homework. What we really need is to figure out how to measure learning retention, and grade based on that. It's no easy task with no simple solution, so homework stays - even though it totally sucks.
What I mean to say is that homework should still be offered, and in some cases required, but absolutely should not be used to raise the average grade of the class. The problem with the way we treat homework in the education system stems from the way teachers are regarded financially (in USA, at least).
Teachers are evaluated based on the number of students that pass the course, in addition to the number of students that get high marks. Since not every student is good at taking tests, most teachers supplement the coursework with a significantly weighted homework score to keep the majority of students inside the bell curve. However, this tends to skew the bell curve toward higher average grades - which are not an appropriate measure of learning.
The solution isn't to get rid of homework. What we really need is to figure out how to measure learning retention, and grade based on that. It's no easy task with no simple solution, so homework stays - even though it totally sucks.
There should be less homework that doesn't help you learn.
If you are in US history, and get an assignment to read something that has nothing to do with what you are learning, that's what I mean, for example.
If you are in US history, and get an assignment to read something that has nothing to do with what you are learning, that's what I mean, for example.
Only eight hours? Pah! When I was in high school I considered that a light work load! Kids these days need to buck it up...[/IBgraduate]Lilani said:
OT: Yeah, no. Homework is a way for students to both retain information that they're currently studying and to learn material that needs to be covered anyway but can't be fully covered in the time allotted for classes. Yes, it sucks, but it's a necessary "evil" if students want "short" school weeks, weekends, and holidays. Plus, as has been mentioned in the thread, kids won't learn commitment and responsibility if they're not given small, unimportant tasks to teach them commitment and responsibility, like homework.
I don't quite understand. I know NO ONE in my Dynamics class who can learn the material without practicing its application in the form of homework.Mr Montmorency said:
In K-12, there were classes that did not require any review of the material at home, but I feel as if that was the exception rather than the rule. I consider homework to have been worthwhile just for it teaching me effective study habits and responsibility that prepared me for college. Homework is infrequently mandatory, but not doing it means making the mistakes on the test that could have been instead made while doing homework.
There should be homework, if there wasn't what would we be in school for, honestly would any of us learn anything without it?