I saw a tweet that said: Adults keep complaining about "work life balance" but look their kids in the eye and with a straight face tell them to do their homework after 7 hours of school.
As a relatively new dad (two daughters, the youngest 8 weeks), I've been reading articles on parenting and seeing a lot of stuff about hyper-schedules and talks of 4 hours of homework a day. WTF. Uh no, My children won't be doing homework.https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1109225010332209152 …
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Generally a myth. My kids have never had more than 30-60 minutes max up through 8th grade.
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Also I ran school systems for a while. We never wanted the kids to have more than 90 at high school level. And even then less is better. Now to read at home - that we wanted.
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Depends on the type of courses the student is taken. I have almost 2-3 hours of homework each day average. This excludes project work.
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Yes. I would assume you’re taking advanced level courses which of course demand homework. Pretty sure mike was talking about fifth graders.
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There is no reason for children to ever have homework. The hours spent at school are sufficient to acquire basic knowledge. Insisting children do more work at home is simply a way of extending the power of the state into the arena of the home.
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Homework has never been proven to increase test scores or intelligence. This is from a former teacher. It's nothing more than a method of keeping kids in "check" and teaching them to be submissive to the requests of others.
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I’ve got a seven year old with at least two hours nightly. Tempted to pull him out and homeschool him. They get 8 hours a day to educate him, if they can’t do it in that time they are incompetent. Teachers are infringing on my time with him and like I said he is seven.
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I'd totally homeschool him if I were you and could manage it.
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My kids are in a strict charter school & their average is less than an hour.
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This is one of many reasons so many parents homeschool now.
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Government indoctrination day camps are no place to learn. Nor is the homework they set.
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I homeschooled my older children. Took them out of school when they had learned to read and we literally devoted no time to schooling at home. They learned math by cooking, handling $$. We’re allowed to read whatever they wanted. Tested for hs placement in 8grade. We’re ahead....
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....of of their class by a couple of grade levels. This proved to me how much time school wastes. Today one is a registered nurse and the other a master electrician. Don’t let the thought of homeschooling scare you, we basically didn’t do any.
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...if you immerse them in a positive environment and give them lots of real world experiences they will learn way more than they would in school. I made my two oldest get jobs by age 12 (illegal I’m sure) and pay 5% of household bills. They learned real fast ...
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....that working all week and still not having enough money to cover bills was not a way they wanted to spend the rest of their lives and they better start thinking about a profession that would keep them out of poverty. There are a lot of ways to educate your kids without school
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They catch on quick, their homework will be done before they step off school property. Remain active at your child's school, you have a right to influence curriculum, never wave the benefit of that right. And you should know your child's teachers.
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*waive
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