Abolish Homework!: ccr1138

ccr1138

Sep 25, 2010 15:50

I truly do think homework, except in special cases, should be abolished. Here are some links I found for those interested, but I'll give my reasons:

Kids need time to relax and digest what they've learned, engage in reading and play and other activities for their own pleasure, and spend time with their families.
With the obesity epidemic in this country, anything that causes children to be indoors in a chair focusing on close work until well after dark is creating "homework potatoes."
Homework makes the divide between students with involved parents and those with busy/uninterested parents worse. By shunting off part of the learning process to the home, we are hurting the already disadvantaged.
Piling on rote work makes kids hate school and hate learning.
Big Brother already controls my child's time and what goes into his head for 35 hours per week. (Plus, they use truancy laws to make sure I can't decide to take him out for a week's vacation, even if the trip would be educational and enriching.) When he gets home, he is MINE, not the state's.