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Originally Posted by Dion
How is no homework the same as less homework?
IMO those parents are over reacting. I got my fair share of homework and it didn't hurt me. When it did it was because I was too lazy to organise my time better and always leaving projects to the last minute.
If your struggling in a subject how is a student going to get better without any homework. I was bad at math and often had homework in that area to improve my skills.
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A better system to teach you how to learn properly, and not just push it on your home life?
Its not about laziness, its about skills and a solid education system with teachers who know how to teach and classrooms built around what works in teaching our children.
Not saying any homework is a bad thing, but too often its not about the kids needing it, its about inefficient and ineffective teaching methods. Our teachers have classes that are way too big, we have been repeating the same methodology that continues to fail most of our children for many decades, and we are expecting different results??
This is a symptom of the problem, not an issue, if people could focus on the real issue here we could deal with the real problems, the way our education system is set up, our failure to fund it properly, our failure to have real accountability to our teachers, and to profoundly change the system that yields such a poor result when compared to European kids.