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After Studying Homework, Teachers at One Canadian Junior High Cut Way Back on their Assignments
A principal from Edmonton, Alberta, asked the teachers at his junior high school to do their own summer reading on whether homework actually works.
The result, as reported by Toronto, Canada's, Globe and Mail: "With their return to the classroom this fall, teachers at the affluent Edmonton school are thinking twice about the pages of homework they would have automatically assigned last year, casting doubt on the age-old wisdom that practice makes perfect, that rote drills lead to deeper understanding instead of boredom or frustration. A math teacher with 26 years under her belt, Judy Hoeksema now assigns half the work she would have and fewer routine textbook exercises. Some colleagues are handing out no homework at all.
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Posted in: News on October 23, 2006 @ 12:00 AM
Tags: School
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hey how would you teachers like it if you had to do 10 pounds of work each nite?!?!
They do idiot. They have to mark each and every single students homework. That may be over 200 pages in a night. And what do you have to do? 2 or 3 pages? Grow up.
You do realize that doing 2 or 3 pages of work may take longer to do than actually checking it, right? Also, students have to do homework for every subject while the teachers teach only one. Sure they do it three or four times a day, but the kids have more work. Teachers get a prep period and kids don't.
Let's just say that homework is a waste of parent's, student's, and teacher's time. But as the kids get older they need less help with their homework and less of the parents time is wasted. And Alex, I have a teacher that hands out a shitload of homework that she doesn't even grade, no matter how she says she will. You do realize that teachers can be immature and lazy when they put their mind to it? YOU grow up, idiot