The Polish government has introduced strict limits on the amount of homework pupils must do in a bid to modernise the education system. But some parents and teachers aren't convinced by the changes. #EuropeNews
Y’all must have had horrible teachers in this thread.
Homework is a tool to train the concepts you learned at school and teach you some self management.
It should allow you to learn the concepts by repetition and apply these concepts to similar problems to the ones already learned at school.
You can’t ‘learn concepts by repetition’, that is not how learning works. You can learn a concept & repeat its application to be faster at it.
And that’s the problem. What if the student didn’t catch the concept during the lesson? He or She needs help by a guardian or be punished for not completing the task.
Same thing with the supposed self management skills. What if the student fails at it? He or she needs help by a guardian or will be punished.
At the end of the day homework is a tool to offload tasks of the school to the guardians of the student. A schools system, that relies on homework, is a system that fails in its task of creating a level playing regardless of socioeconomic background of the student.
A kid should be able to get taught everything they need in the confines of the school day, outside of that time they shouldn’t be given any more work, it’s ridiculous. No one would put up with being expected to work for free outside of office hours, so why is it acceptable for children?
Y’all must have had horrible teachers in this thread.
Homework is a tool to train the concepts you learned at school and teach you some self management. It should allow you to learn the concepts by repetition and apply these concepts to similar problems to the ones already learned at school.
You can’t ‘learn concepts by repetition’, that is not how learning works. You can learn a concept & repeat its application to be faster at it.
And that’s the problem. What if the student didn’t catch the concept during the lesson? He or She needs help by a guardian or be punished for not completing the task.
Same thing with the supposed self management skills. What if the student fails at it? He or she needs help by a guardian or will be punished.
At the end of the day homework is a tool to offload tasks of the school to the guardians of the student. A schools system, that relies on homework, is a system that fails in its task of creating a level playing regardless of socioeconomic background of the student.
So extend the school day then?
A kid should be able to get taught everything they need in the confines of the school day, outside of that time they shouldn’t be given any more work, it’s ridiculous. No one would put up with being expected to work for free outside of office hours, so why is it acceptable for children?