Homework
So the new school year has started - kidlets are all back in to routine. And now homework starts.
Herein lies the problem. I have fundamental issues with homework. I don't believe in it.
Children spend what - seven hours at school. Then they're expected to do homework. When are they expected to be kids? The kids spend so much time at school and quite a bit of it they spend watching videos and playing games...why can't they use *that* time to do "homework"?
I think year 10 and up can start doing homework, and I wouldn't have a problem with an assignment or project maybe once a term, or finishing work that hasn't been finished in class, but I don't agree with doing pages x to y in some book. For everyone else, I think the maximum should be maybe a reading book and learning your times tables. And possibly a spelling list of troubling words.
Herein lies the problem. I have fundamental issues with homework. I don't believe in it.
Children spend what - seven hours at school. Then they're expected to do homework. When are they expected to be kids? The kids spend so much time at school and quite a bit of it they spend watching videos and playing games...why can't they use *that* time to do "homework"?
I think year 10 and up can start doing homework, and I wouldn't have a problem with an assignment or project maybe once a term, or finishing work that hasn't been finished in class, but I don't agree with doing pages x to y in some book. For everyone else, I think the maximum should be maybe a reading book and learning your times tables. And possibly a spelling list of troubling words.