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Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
If the current education system wasn't such a joke, they could probably get away with giving less homework, but I think it would still be necessary to have it. There is only so much you can learn by listening to someone talk. The rest, you have to go out and do it.
Originally posted by sympthons_WDF
Look at it this way, have you ever got a really good grade on a test witout studing?
Originally posted by Shamanator
Theres no excuse for lazyness if it was up to me I would make school 7 days a week and extend the hours and homework. The youth of today wouldnt know working if it came up and slapped them with a wet fish. Sometimes I really think the human race is de evolving I could swear every year the youth look more and more like apes.
More schooling might be the only way to pull our country back from disaster as well as a forced enlistment in the Armed forces for a few years.
Originally posted by sardion2000
Originally posted by chissler
Up to 5 hours of homework a night? I'm not buying that for a second.
It depends on the student. Me personally, what one normally would finish in a couple of hours would take me like 40 minutes, but the kid who sat next too me worked twice as hard and finished half the work in twice the normal time(4 hours normally, I used to help him in English). That's why individually tailored lessons are needed. All kids are treated equal depending on the class, this is bad because we aren't all equal learners even though we are all equal in our right to education. There are people out there that are increadibly slow learners, but they have eidetic memories. A lot of these people end up either feeling harried by the pace or neglected and left behind. The result is they usually drop out and get a low wage job until they realize they need that piece of paper to make money so they go and get a GED(Good enough diploma) to get themselves into a trade. Some of them are truely wasting their potential. Some have found it through this way(which could have been guided and encouraged by the system instead of trying to fit everyone into a static mold...erm "curriculum"...)
[edit on 26-9-2006 by sardion2000]
our kids are getting dumber and you want to stop homework????
Originally posted by 7Ayreon
Hypathetical example:
There is a constant problem; a battle with the strong and weaker minded (no offense). The stronger minded are well off than the ones who fall behind, resulting in selfish ignorance for those who have to deal with the pressure pressed against them. I don't see those 'well off' helping to find a solution other than modifying classes for those 'not so well off'. This all results in a negative outlook! We as a society should all work together, not in separation because of our differences. We should be able to cope with one another positively, equally; in a fashioned manner where interfering issues become less of. That is where my verdict steps into place:
School work done only during school hours of operation. We are encouraged to take less of 'workaholic' overtime with the relief of time off/rest//refreshness so on so fourth. That being done improves our stamina and efficiency.
[edit on 27-9-2006 by 7Ayreon]
a battle with the strong and weaker minded (no offense). The stronger minded are well off than the ones who fall behind, resulting in selfish ignorance for those who have to deal with the pressure pressed against them.
I don't see those 'well off' helping to find a solution other than modifying classes for those 'not so well off'.
This all results in a negative outlook! We as a society should all work together, not in separation because of our differences. We should be able to cope with one another positively, equally; in a fashioned manner where interfering issues become less of.
That is where my verdict steps into place:
School work done only during school hours of operation. We are encouraged to take less of 'workaholic' overtime with the relief of time off/rest//refreshness so on so fourth. That being done improves our stamina and efficiency.
ahh help out the weaker minded, you mean giving you my resources because you, for some reason, can't generate the outputs that I do? Take some responsibility and just accept your failure, not that you failed because I didn't help you.. In the end, someone is succeeding without any help, and that should be you.
Originally posted by chissler
Homework is used as a component to create responsibility.
When you enter university, 95% of the work your required to do is at home or on your own time. Most students are in school 25 hours a week, lets say you do 1 hour of homework a night. Your left with a total of 30 hours a week of work to do. Enjoy this while you can.
Originally posted by 7Ayreon
I believe it's time that adults finally listen to the youth and take there word for it that homework SUCKS. Therefore, teachers should not issue studying, homework etc. be done at HOME. School takes a large portion of our lives as it is, and half of our bloody day. So what I'm saying is that once school is over for the day - that is IT! No homework or anything to do with school until we go to school the next day. Studying for tests should only be done at school, period. Why do I think it should be this way? Because I believe this will SIGNIFICANTLY end students from skipping school. Homework = skipping school, no homework = ends skipping school significantly (not completely because of bullying etc. etc).
Take the message from the Media themselves for example, "ReFresh". They are telling employees to Relax more during lunch hour and STOP over working. Its the same thing with education. Get the point I'm trying to make?
Originally posted by sardion2000
So basically, what you're saying, is let the weak swimmers drown, right? Social Darwinism doesn't work because those that fail simply don't die like they do in nature. A weak, uneducated mind is a drain for society as a whole.
[edit on 27-9-2006 by sardion2000]