Homework, a Help or Hindrance?

[Flamewhisker]

I'm sorta on the middle of this, but first off i wanna get one thing stright

 

1- I HATE HOMEWORK!!!!!

 

 

 

but I have found it helpful, it has ocasionally made things "click" but I hate it when teaches give you stuff and its taken you hours to complete, and the next day they don't even take it up or do anything with it. When they do that, i have the bad urge to yell "Then why the heck did we do it in the first place?!?!?!" but i don't...

[Furah]

It has nothing to do with work ethics. The workload can be gradually increased once the kids grow older. It's absolutely insane to keep a kid confined to a desk after a long day of school to do more tedious, repetitive excercises for multiple hours. The small minority who are silent & obedient may go along with it for a while. You can destroy kid's minds from the inside who are active by nature & are forced to do even more schoolwork after they get home.

 

 

 

I think this may be the missing link to my somewhat insane habits, I am wanting to kill someone one moment then having dillusions the next, I have no logical thought patterns, I will always try to battle authority, even if it is for no reason, I am always aggrovated and can be very nasty if you are acting how I don't want you to act.

[Hawks]

Homework is almost always useless. The only times it's not is when it's in a class that requires memorization of words or whatever, like a foreign language.

 

 

 

This reminds me, I especially hate it when a teacher will talk for the whole hour about stuff that's totally unrelated to what we're supposed to be doing and then he assigns us to do what we were supposed to do in class at home. And this particular teacher thinks it's our fault he keeps talking about pointless topics. :wall:

[megakiller32]

I think it's useful in small doses just to reassure that you've actually learned something in the lesson.

 

But if you're good at the subject, then you shouldn't get it, as it's an annoying hinderance.

 

Coursework on the other hand, has more sense.

[Roseiah]

I willingly go away and do work for school, outside school. When I am behind on my notes, or just don't fully understand something, I will go over it. On the other hand, when my teacher gives me work to do and I have a ton of work to do already, and unless I work into the night there is no way it will get done, I despise it. If I am falling behind, give me work, fine by me, but don't give me work especially on something that is as easy as the back of my hand. If only homework was optional.

[Quoi_Tu]

There's far too much pressure on children to perform well in school these days, and not enough emphasis on letting them just be kids and explore the world for themselves. They receive test after test after test, with homework on top of the revision. We don't let young kids go out of 100 yards from our front doors because the media's scared us into thinking there's some pervert waiting for them. We force them through this academic factory, and then get surprised after they get out because they've no idea how to deal with the world around them (basic tasks like cooking, socialising, cleaning, looking after health). What's wrong with making them work harder at school, and when they get home, just letting them play out, watch TV or whatever?

 

 

 

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

 

 

That was kind of unrelated, but I do agree that the amount of busy work (useless/minimally productive homework) seems to be increasing with the idea that it is "preparing" kids for the future.

[jjrox32]

Homework definitely helps me. Granted, I don't get [cabbage] tons like some of you do (roughly 15-20 minutes per class at most). But overall, it really has helped me in subjects like Math, Science, and French. It makes a lot of things click for me, and helps me remember massive piles of data that some teachers give out.

 

 

 

Math especially is something I always do my homework in. 20-30 minutes a night reviewing what I did during the day helps me to understand it better, helps me to correct mistakes and cement correct formulas/applications to solving different problems, etc.

[BlueLancer]

 

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

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Think it happened around the time when the internet and more realistic and deeper 3-d console games became available, maybe between 1996-2001. Since such high quality entertainment now is available at home even during horrible winter storms, a lot of kids lost incentive to spend time together in reality, throw snowballs, run around prank-ringing house door bells... It's pretty sad.

 

 

 

Go to a country where those electronic advances aren't available for the wider population; It's like comparing day and night. I got family in poorer areas of Europe, and all the younger kids have is an old TV and a 8-bit Nintendo. Needless to say they spend about all of their spare time with friends outdoors, playing football and doing 'normal' stuff instead of staring at screen for 10 hours daily.

[rangeor]

I believe that homework can either help or hinder depending on the type of homework.

 

 

 

For example, in my AP European History class we pretty much have to teach ourselves through homework. We are forced to take notes on every chapter, and they MUST be Cornell notes, and we are graded on the quality of our notes. Not to mention this is weekly and the assignment often takes between 5-10 pages. In class, all she does is clear up any questions we had on the homework then gives us busywork, which we should also complete for homework providing we do not finish it in class. I don't see how she couldn't just teach us like my other classes, since we move pretty slow in that class.

 

 

 

Although in my Algebra 2/Trig class things are different. The class covers all of algebra 2 in only three quarters, then triggonometry in one quarter, so it moves much faster than a standard class. Pretty much all class time is spent lecturing and learning new material, and homework helps give us some much-needed review.

 

 

 

I can't really complain though, since I only have three classes that assign homework nightly. All the other classes only assign homework once or twice a week.

[Quoi_Tu]

 

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

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Think it happened around the time when the internet and more realistic and deeper 3-d console games became available, maybe between 1996-2001. Since such high quality entertainment now is available at home even during horrible winter storms, a lot of kids lost incentive to spend time together in reality, throw snowballs, run around prank-ringing house door bells... It's pretty sad.

 

 

 

Go to a country where those electronic advances aren't available for the wider population; It's like comparing day and night. I got family in poorer areas of Europe, and all the younger kids have is an old TV and a 8-bit Nintendo. Needless to say they spend about all of their spare time with friends outdoors, playing football and doing 'normal' stuff instead of staring at screen for 10 hours daily.

 

 

 

It's strange because I pretty much grew up during that era (90's) and I don't really like playing video games all that much. I gladly play them socially, but otherwise I never really play them. I've always found greater entertainment elsewhere. Like constructing a brick and sand dam in my creek with old pipes (I don't remember what they were from) to allow some water through. I eventually got in trouble beause the raised water level (I clogged up the pipes) was eroding the sides of the creek. Good times.

[Lenticular_J]

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

All me and my friends do is be outside during the summer. I don't know how to ride a bike (particularly with no handlebars), so we're building a chariot. With a paddle. It's almost done right now, and [bleep]ing awesome.

 

 

 

When we get tired or something though, it is fun to play video games, even though we pay more attention to talking/listening to music/dirty jokes/wondering which of our teachers decided we're on drugs.

[ThurinEthir]

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

It's quite ironic (Am I using it right?), my friends and I, aka the geeks, play sports on our days off, and sometimes when we get out of school. On the other hand, the jocks seem to usually play video games during those times. (I think it's because normally, we're the ones who game and the jocks are the ones playing sports, and we take advantages of our free time to do the opposite...)

 

Though when it does get cold, we go inside and game all day. But we still have snowball fights. And one time, we had an epic capture the flag game with real flags, against the "nerds." In a forest. On a hill.

 

 

 

While I do agree kids need more kid time, up until sophomore or junior year, if someone struggles to finish their homework (Consistently spending hours...), then they either need that homework as otherwise they'd struggle in school too, or they need to set their priorities straight. I see 7th graders complaining about how much homework they have. :wall:

[Furah]

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

 

 

Too hot here during summer, and my 360 isn't turned on without the aircon on, due to the heat it generates, infact it is hot all year round :-k

[Quoi_Tu]

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

 

 

Too hot here during summer, and my 360 isn't turned on without the aircon on, due to the heat it generates, infact it is hot all year round :-k

 

 

 

Where I lived when I was young, it averaged around 98 deg F during the summer, so we just would go out in the afternoon/evening when it was a little cooler or just muck around in the forests where it was at least out of the sun.

[Furah]

When I was a kid and got home from school, I dropped my stuff at the house then ran around outside (playing with other kids, climbing trees, just generally moving around) until dinner time. Now I see a lot of kids come home, drop their stuff at the house, then sit inside and play video games or watch TV. When did people start fearing the outdoors?

 

 

 

Too hot here during summer, and my 360 isn't turned on without the aircon on, due to the heat it generates, infact it is hot all year round :-k

 

 

 

Where I lived when I was young, it averaged around 98 deg F during the summer, so we just would go out in the afternoon/evening when it was a little cooler or just muck around in the forests where it was at least out of the sun.

 

 

 

where I am it is hot WAY into the night...

[deathdrow]

i personally think if you don't finish your work in class, you should have to do it at home.

 

but i don't think teachers should assign work for you to do at home, other than projects/assignments.

[Ginger_Warrior]

i personally think if you don't finish your work in class, you should have to do it at home.

 

but i don't think teachers should assign work for you to do at home, other than projects/assignments.

 

That doesn't work though. All that means is teachers will fill the lessons with more work then use that as an excuse to give you homework. In other words, it's an excuse for lazy teaching.