dare2Bsquare
19 Answers
FISH-O
Ed1530
fjoel
jhharlan
Bob/PKB
Not sure where it was invented, but when my sons (now 21, 24, 25) were in school, the teachers were REQUIRED to give 20 minutes of homework per evening. It got harder when they hit junior high and high school because they had 5-6 teachers....20 minutes from each one!!!!!
The point of homework is to provide "practice" time to reinforce the concepts you were supposed to have been exposed to during class time.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
daren1
robertgrist
Homework predates all other forms of work. From home work skills were developed. Among the first homework jobs that have endured to this day are such mundane tasks as taking the trash out, and organizing one’s personal belongings. Tasks such as mending clothing and tending the fire have fallen out of vogue recently due to prolific production in supporting industries. Homework as a school assignment is to give proof that you can think and learn on your own, away from the school environment. As a result of homework you will demonstrate that you have gained enough skill to learn on your own in various subjects. If you choose to love learning new things you will find the task of homework fun and at times challenging to your interest. When I was assigned a difficult task as my homework assignment, such as analyzing a poem or sonnet, I would tear into it and look up every word and phrase. I would go to the library and find other peoples opinions and read the authors biography. I consumed my education and what was offered was not enough I wanted more…an acquired appetite. I left hight school in the 10th grade and my teachers were glad to see me go.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
Headless Man
coolandy2000
Teachers who are overworked and underpaid, they are taking out their frustrations on the whole human race by making students pay for it :). To help overcome a time frame on a "syllabus" because they have not done sufficient during class hours. As a method of repetition therefore reminder, therefore well understood and to find out whether the students have got the idea that they want to convey on the subject material given as homework. The least likely, to give the mothers some time to themselves while the kids grind!. :).
| 12 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
eggplant
Our three sons did their homework everyday. I chased them into their rooms to do it and I checked to see if they were doing it. Guess what! It paid off as they are all medical doctors now. One is a heart specialist, one is an emergencey doctor and the last one works in a hospital. Now if kids didn't do their homework where would doctors, pilots and all other professions come from? Everyone would be deadbeats walking the streets at night.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
digger
valR
doolittle
Hmmm...Lets just think about this. Dare2besquare- you are one student how many are in your class? How many classes (or subjects in your class) does your teacher Have. I am going to give you a public shchool example for a middle- school or High School teacher. Each teacher has to teach 5 of the 6 class periods a day. There are 30 students per class. that is 150 students per teacher...you have to do the homework for this calss once a day as do all of the other students. Your teacher has to read 150 student's homework, grade it, mark the grade in the grade book, return it to all of the students, and speak with every student that disagrees with their grade. Who had the harder job...the Teacher!!!!!! So, be thankful you aren't the teacher!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Clonge
I did. I'm the Octomom! While the kids are busy with homework, I think I'll go and make more babies!
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