EAG: FORT WORTH, Texas – A new homework policy at a Texas school is generating a lot of discussion on Facebook after one student’s mother posted a note from her daughter’s teacher that went viral.
Fort Worth mother Samantha Gallagher posted a copy of a letter from her daughter’s teacher about the new homework policy last Tuesday, and in less than a week it received 51,000 shares.
“Dear parents, After much research this summer, I am trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this year,” the letter read.
“Research has been unable to prove that homework improves student performance. Rather, I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early…” MORE
The best thing evah. I never assigned homework to my 2nd graders.
I wonder if the studies cited also surveyed how much time those kids spend watching television every day after school.
On a scale of 1-10 I give that an 8. Hours of meaningless crap doesn’t do any good. However, a sense of discipline and independent study skills still need to be developed. Also, this approach requires participation from parents.
I like it. Now parents have to parent
Mrs. M taught 6th grade for 30 years in the worst of the worst inner city location. When she first started teaching she was going to change the world. Toward the end of her career she’d walk in the classroom and would find “Mrs. M is a Bicth” and it was then her goal was: “I’m going to teach those kids how to spell bitch if it’s the last thing I do.”
The more time you spend practicing something, the better you get at it. Hence, homework. Gosh. I suspect that may somehow improve student performance at least a little.
The 1950s are gonna be poplar again 🙂
An even better step would be to remove all the progressive misinformation propaganda from the kids’ curriculum. That would restore time for physical ed, music and art classes.
But then the federal DoE (ha!) would be upset at having all their non-educational garbage excluded.
That was the single, biggest problem about bussing aside from a colossal waste of money. Kids that were bussed over to the other side of town couldn’t go home and play with their school-mates after school!
One more failed Liberal experiment we spent waaaay too much money on, but then that was probably the hidden Cloward-Piven objective!!
Read a nice article today which I think echoes the sentiment: http://www.outsideonline.com/2107446/kids-need-downtime-so-embrace-boredom
Bored? You’re bored? Oh I’LL give you some thing to do…..
Sends them scurrying every time, mwhahahahahahaha
I have to admit I hated homework as a kid and rarely did it! But as I got older I bought the notion that it was essential to the general work ethic. Until I saw my own kids sometimes strapped with hours and hours of homework and I began to sense it was just a way for the school to reach into my home and control my kids long after they (the teachers) themselves went home. At that point I reasoned that the school had them for six friggin’ hours and if they couldn’t get the job done in that time there was something wrong with the system.
So, I applaud this teacher. She’s right. Especially the part about family dinner: Everyone at the table, no TV, no phones, no exceptions.