Is homework good for kids?

[msc545]

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[rigmarole]

Since most parents don't really parent, the reverse model is better. You get them to preread the chapter at home. Then you give them a warm up before you start lecturing to prime their brain for the day that reflects back on what they read at home. Then lecture with structured active note taking in class with some sort of outline they have to tackle while you are lecturing. When they don't understand they can ask questions in the moment. Then give them "in class homework" and time to work on it. They just heard the material, then they have to reference their note that they had to take and answer questions and solve problems with that information, and they have access to an expert to mentor them. It only works with block scheduling though. The majority of kids don't do homework at home, because the majority of kids have absent parents that just on't give a fuck about their kids. So you end up with like 10% doing the homework and 90% copying the homework before they get to your class. It doesn't really do anything in that sort of environment. If parents held their children accountable, then homework might be effective, but the reality is that they do not.

[lightbulb27]

Norway I hear has no homework and they do well... but then again, USA isn't going to Norway to get our scientists and engineers and they aren't producing AI chips.

Given that school has a large swath of things they don't teach that are the practical aspects of life, I'd say yes. Homework is a way to encourage parents and children to communicate and work together so the parent can teach the child rather than watch reruns of TV.

[msmissydc]

I dont think so. At least not in the form that most homework today is.
I can see homework making sense that will make the actual lessons more time efficient. e. g. prereading texts with taking notes.
Doing some research for a specific topic maybe resulting in preparing a speech for the topic.
All of this wouldn't be daylie homework. I can see some non mandatory homework as a way of assisted learning like it is today. If you need better understanding of a topic some things can be learned with just Doing it more. Not everyone needs it though or at least the students in one class would probably need help in different subjects, so if everyone would be able to only do what they need help in that would not overwhelm students and make them actually put work into it as it does have a purpose beside grades.

[loves2learn]

Depends on the degree and the age. Our school district just encourages 20 min of reading each night K-5. Middle school so far just has math homework. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t think kids need to be bogged down at a young age.

[slatyb]

No, it's not. Most adults don't take work home. Children need free time to relax, or to pursue their own interests. We pretend that a diploma is somehow magical and will raise the market value of those who possess it, but it's not. The market doesn't pay for diplomas, it pays for delivered value.

[RealMarek]

Not much of what the schools are doing today is good for kids. I notice schools sending homework with little kids, like five years old, which I think is ridiculous. Trying to get a high-pressure head jump on learning is not the correct response to abject failure to teach from grade three onward. If the curricula were half way decent, homework could be good. Repetition is one method of learning.

[goaded]

It's OK for kids with engaged, educated parents with free time, not so good otherwise. Which means that it maintains class structures.

One of my daughters loved homework so much, I set up a video camera the first time she got some because I was worried the teachers might think I'd forced her to do the whole book and not just the expected couple of pages.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Yes and no. I had a lot of busy work homework. I stopped doing homework in high school, but there's a difference between learning something and just doing something for the sake of their being a grade to average in.

[exitseven]

I never liked homework but it reinforces what has been taught at schoolm

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Homework should be done in school and be called Classwork.

[OfMiceandMen]

Yes, it is. It prepares them for real life later on. Not everything work-wise fits in a 9-5 situation or in their case a 9 to 3.

[Astarlessnightsky]

No.

It even isn't very beneficial for learning. (According to the big meta study)

Its more of a punishment with little to no benefits.

[MementoMori777]

Yes, punishing for not doing it isn't tho

[KrakenAttackin]

I think homework sucks.

[midnightmoon05]

Yes. Very