Quebec elementary school bans homework for one year - Polidicks

When it comes to maths, homework is usually quite important if you don't do exercises in class

i never did homework and finally in senior year, realizing i wasn't going to graduate, i transfered to a charter school that didnt assign homework at all, and you went to class on your own schedule i graduated in like 3 months

[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;45869232]I hated homework. Homework was an excellent catalyst in making me hate math, physics and chemistry. Almost all the time the homework was "Whatever, do EVERYTHING on the next 2-4 pages" from all three classes (usually they all had the same teacher too). And it sure as shit was fun doing homework pretty much for the rest of the day at home.[/QUOTE]I was fortunate in that I had a fairly cool physics/chemistry teacher throughout junior high, and a similarly likeable one in high school. The junior high one got replaced around the same time I left the school, and my brother noted that the new one was the standard Finnish pure theory dullard. What a waste of a surprisingly well decked-out lab.

I always ended up doing my homework in class or just not doing it. It was always just a repeat of the same shit I'd just learned in class so there was no point in repeating it since I already knew it. I can only remember a single class where homework was important and even then only 1-2 people bothered doing the homework at home so we ended up going over it at the start of class every time for everyone else since the homework was the actual classwork and the rest of the class was spent going over everything we needed to learn. (Precalculus in year 12 for those who are curious.)

From the sounds of it I got it pretty easy here in England :v: In Primary I'm pretty sure that most of the time I got no more than a single piece of homework a week that would have taken about 30 minutes to an hour at best, and could easily have been avoided

There was one year I had to miss about a month of school because my mom almost died from her achohol addiction. So our family kinda stopped what we were doing and took my mom to rehab as a family and tried to participate to help her out. When I got back to school, all my teachers were pretty accommodating with me catching up on the homework but the math teacher. She literally wanted me to every assignment I had miss within a week since I returned, even tho I had taken the test for the material before leaving and made a 87. I just didn't do it and somehow she either forgot or didn't care. 17 assignments of basically, "Do 1-50 odd, 61, 62, 64 plus the word problems" kinda shit is usually pointless.

I don't think I did any of my homework in highschool, or when I did it was totally half-assed. Still passed somehow, but the system is terrible, "kept" very little of what I learned and the homework was just complete trash I went to summer-school once because I failed a grade 10 english class, and I really loved the pace of it. It was about a 3 weeks long, and you'd get maybe 3 in-class assignments per day that you'd do then and there, with barely any homework. All the shit I remember from all my english classes was the stuff I learned in summer-school, the intensive pace and minimal homework really drills the knowledge into you and leaves you free to do your own thing at home. IMO regular school should be something like 8 months of the year, 8 different topics, and have cycling rotations of a mono-class structures for 3 weeks of each month, and a one-week break at the end of each month, then cycle over to the next intensive topic the next month. Summer vacation for 2 months. I think there's definitely a problem with having like 4-6 class topics a day, and a bunch of mixed up homework. It makes it really hard to actually keep track of and absorb what you're being taught by the teachers. Doing just math for 3 weeks, or just science for 3 weeks would probably make it easier to learn stuff at an intensive pace without getting confused or disoriented, and then a one-week cooldown before the next intensive program.

From my experience homework really does wonders. Then again homework at my schools was pretty sensible.

I failed a class because I hadn't got the homework book and wasn't given another one; the homework always being an absurd number of problems to the point of it being impractical to copy in the tiny amount of free time we had anyway

The real motives behind the "homework" were to make Ministers of Education and School Boards appear to care about childrens well-being. There is no credible evidence that there are not better ways to educate than terrorize children with stupid homework.

tbf, in both year 10 and 11 in my school, they just gave up handing out homework to us since most of the time it was either half done or just forgotten about.

I grade 12 my social studies teacher would give out homework then forget about it and then just give everyone full marks once he remembered. It basically became a thing in the class where if you reminded him he'd assigned homework you'd get death glares.

The punishment at my school was that if you didn't do your homework, you'd get no homework for a month It worked - everyone usually did their homework so as to keep up with the class

for us in secondary school, homework was just basically shit you didn't manage to finish in class. the only thing they'd tell you to bring at home is shit to study.

[QUOTE=RockmanYoshi;45868195]It would be nice if most assignments actually went over the stuff done the previous days before rather than just focusing on that one particular thing you learned in class. Sounds mundane, but it would help more during final tests. Or another alternative is to at least go over the lessons several times, because my teachers never were great at explaining anything (and it seemed like they just didn't want to).[/QUOTE] I had a college professor who told me that his homework was straight up to prepare us for the following class, understandably this only lasted a few weeks till mutiny ensued and the dean put him on notice as every student complained about it as nobody had a fucking clue what to do on the homework [editline]4th September 2014[/editline] This was a thermodynamics class not like a philosophy class or a history class where preparing for class would be reading the material to discuss in class, nope this was straight up mathematical problems using stuff we dont know and bonus: none of it came from the text book as he had no text book in that class

For those of you in the United States who claim to have had over 6 hours of the stuff in highschool, could you specify what state you went to school in? Living in PA, I never [i]ever[/i] have had assignments that took me more than an hour.

only teacher who seems to bother is my maths teacher, and he does it with good reason.

Thanks god I'm in philology highschool. The only homework I get is reading books and documenting myself on people and concepts.

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