Homework! A burden

[Caribeing]

Do you think children get too much homework!
apart from them it is a burden on parents {and grandparents} My granddaughter is in school form 9am to 3.30. and then comes home to do hours of homework! Granted they need to do revising but some of the work takes hours! They are all expected to have computers cameras etc! Reading is very important but they don't have time to read a book! Should homework be compulsory!

[Lil O'lady]

I could not agree more. It's serving no purpose other than to knock the joy out of learning for kids. I have known cynical teachers set 'basketwork' ie thats where it will end up, in the wastebasket - and many other teachers are ground down by the relentless pontlessness of it.

[sara3]

I feel more stressed trying to make sure my kids have done their homework than I ever remember feeling about my own homework.. about 300 years ago!

[Twenty20]

What's the problem doing a few hours homework in the evening? Is it interrupting her tv viewing, or her texting friends or messing about on facebook?

Just think, she might learn something useful by doing it!

Sorry, not the answer you wanted?!

[cazzz1975]

my daughter quite enjoys her homework, she works very hard and the work is graded at school, its not pointless busy work, she is trying to collect merits for a trip to alton towers!

[cazzz1975]

my daughter does have tiome to read and when planned right the homework does not see too bad, its preparing them for the volume of work they will get at college/uni

[sara3]

hey Twenty.. you can still send kids up chimneys, I believe...

[Caribeing]

Twenty20 no TV only when all homework finished no facebook, only recently have had a computer! Knows loads of useful material! Works hard and has also a Saturday job for extra pocket money! So definitely not an idler!

[Hymie]

Many, many years ago, when I was a student at school � my teachers were lazier than me (I�m sure things have not changed over the years) - your granddaughter needs to work smarter not harder.

At the end of the lesson, our teachers would invariably announce that the last five questions on the page were homework. During class lessons, I started by answering the last 5 questions first; by the end of the lesson I had completed my homework.

[Lil O'lady]

When my kids' secondary school was Ofsted-ed I asked the inspector, in the parents meeting, what the scenario was if a child had completed all the classwork and the homework provided fo them. His respnse was, they should be given more work to do.
Have you ever heard such nonsense?

[terambulan]

Depends on age of child and their study situation, GCSEs etc require intense work.

[cassa333]

If nothing else homework shows a commitment to work, an ability to self disipline, time management etc etc etc.

Sometimes it's not about what they learn but how they view learning.


Perhaps if you would prefer less homework then the school hours should be extended for an hour and a half then?! It would probably help working parents though lol

The attention span of the average student is about 10 seconds nowadays and they can't fit everything in in the school day.

We have the options of 1. Homework 2. Longer school hours 3. no homework and less educated people leaving school.

Let's vote shall we and see what happens in say ten years time... another social experiment doomed to failier I think.

[kinell]

As many parents have a problem with working around school leaving times that early, why not let them do their 'home' work at school and finish around 5.30 pm.

It will be good preparation for when kids get a job.

[teddybon]

I have known parents of four year olds who expected daily homework. There are two sides to every argument. By the way I don't like setting homework unless it's relevant and cannot be covered during the school day.