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Spideyman

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Wayoftheredpanda

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Well, in the classroom, the teachers have to "teach to the test" since we've implemented the onerous method of teacher review. Hopefully, one can use their reasoning and thinking skills and go deeper into the subject.
I look at it this way: Anything you want, or would like for your child, to do well in takes practice.

If you are learning a new sport someone shows you how to do it then you practice on your own to become more proficient.

Homework to me is just that, practice.
I can see your points, but it’s not really practice if all it does is teach students that there’s only one answer to everything and makes them regurgitate information onto paper that they’re going to forget anyways. All homework does for a lot of students is just build up an unnecessary amount of stress. I already have to stay after school almost every day due to one class I have, meaning I spend around 11-15 hours a day already at school, by the time I get home I’m either too stressed or tired to care and I don’t need 7 sheets of homework due the next day to add to that. I think that not making homework mandatory and instead having it as an option for students struggling with a certain subject to practice with would do a lot better.
 

Alexandra M

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I can see your points, but it’s not really practice if all it does is teach students that there’s only one answer to everything and makes them regurgitate information onto paper that they’re going to forget anyways. All homework does for a lot of students is just build up an unnecessary amount of stress. I already have to stay after school almost every day due to one class I have, meaning I spend around 11-15 hours a day already at school, by the time I get home I’m either too stressed or tired to care and I don’t need 7 sheets of homework due the next day to add to that. I think that not making homework mandatory and instead having it as an option for students struggling with a certain subject to practice with would do a lot better.

Wayoftheredpanda
Spnding 11-15 hrs/day at school is excessive. While I think you have a valid point about homework and its ramifications, I thinking that is secondarry to your time spent at school each day. I would be talking to (enlightening them) someone in the School System about that.
 
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