The Polish government has introduced strict limits on the amount of homework pupils must do in a bid to modernise the education system. But some parents and teachers aren't convinced by the changes. #EuropeNews
Education at later levels is pretty much all homework. Teachers go over tricky to understand parts and practical explanations whilst the child does the actual studying independently.
My kids grew up with homework and it was never received as much of a chore. Mostly was completed in less than an hour. The trick is to pay attention in class and do the homework pretty much as soon as it is assigned.
Now they are at university, having the ability to study independently is paying off.
Not sure of the ages of your children, but as a 52yo who grew up in the States, I averaged 2-3 hours of homework a night in grade school. They’d tell us “oh, it’s only about 15-20 minutes per class” which doesn’t sound terrible, except that it was more like 20-30 minutes of work x 4-6 classes. By 7th grade I burned out and realized that the world didn’t end if I started skipping homework, and my test grades remained about the same. I just had to live with the stifling anxiety over getting in trouble for not getting my homework done.
Thankfully by the time my kids came along schools started pulling back on the volumes of unnecessary homework. I also never pressured them to get every assignment done, but instead asked them if they understood what they were doing. As adults having completed further educational programs, they did just fine. I’m glad that as time goes on, kids are getting more of a chance to be kids.
I can’t imagine learing math without running equations myself. Once reading and math skills are proficient students need to be doing some independent study.
That is to be expected and is something you can prepare for. Easiest solution is that those kids could read the stuff in class and do the practical stuff at home. They’ll soon learn to prepare if they don’t want to get extra homework. There’s probably better solutions though.
No that wouldn’t work at all. Kids would show up without having learned the concepts, except for the most studious.
Education at later levels is pretty much all homework. Teachers go over tricky to understand parts and practical explanations whilst the child does the actual studying independently.
My kids grew up with homework and it was never received as much of a chore. Mostly was completed in less than an hour. The trick is to pay attention in class and do the homework pretty much as soon as it is assigned.
Now they are at university, having the ability to study independently is paying off.
Not sure of the ages of your children, but as a 52yo who grew up in the States, I averaged 2-3 hours of homework a night in grade school. They’d tell us “oh, it’s only about 15-20 minutes per class” which doesn’t sound terrible, except that it was more like 20-30 minutes of work x 4-6 classes. By 7th grade I burned out and realized that the world didn’t end if I started skipping homework, and my test grades remained about the same. I just had to live with the stifling anxiety over getting in trouble for not getting my homework done.
Thankfully by the time my kids came along schools started pulling back on the volumes of unnecessary homework. I also never pressured them to get every assignment done, but instead asked them if they understood what they were doing. As adults having completed further educational programs, they did just fine. I’m glad that as time goes on, kids are getting more of a chance to be kids.
I can’t imagine learing math without running equations myself. Once reading and math skills are proficient students need to be doing some independent study.
That is to be expected and is something you can prepare for. Easiest solution is that those kids could read the stuff in class and do the practical stuff at home. They’ll soon learn to prepare if they don’t want to get extra homework. There’s probably better solutions though.
Are you disconnected from reality?
Homework. You’ve just described homework.
You don’t seem like a very nice person to have a discussion with. So I’ll leave it at that, that’s how disconnected from reality I am.