No More Homework
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Here is an article about how 1 Jr. High is dealing with not lower grades. They eliminated homework because the students didn’t do it anyway. Read the full article here.
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Junior high students at the Marya Yates School in Matteson simply had too many crushes to attend to, Web sites to surf, and television shows to watch in order to sit diligently at their kitchen tables and crank out homework.
School administrators saw they were fighting a losing battle outside their walls. But they were confident most students were absorbing the lessons in class. So what did they do? They virtually eliminated homework. |
The article makes this all sound so natural and that the kids are learing the material in the classroom. I don’t agree. What are the kids being taught? This teaches them that if you don’t do the work it’s ok, we’ll jsut change the system to help you out. Isn’t one of the jobs of school to teach a good work ethic and pride in their work? This will have the opposite affect. How can schools even justify a policy of no homework? How can they even present the argument, “They’re not doing it anyway.” This is not a good practice.
