Magpie Girl (Rachelle Mee-Chapman)
distracted by sparkly things since 1969
After spending TWO HOURS in the piano teacher’s waiting room helping two second graders spell EVERY SINGLE WORD of their report on bumblebee bats (which are so rare, no one even knows what the eat), my fourth-grade daughter hit me with this one:
“I can’t believe you and Dad think things like making dinner and doing dishes are more important than helping me with my logic homework. I guess you two are just willing to jeopardize my educational future!!!!”
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You know… I really don’t get homework??? We home school and it just really isn’t that hard to get the work done in the time alloted for each class. I don’t understand why public school teachers pile so much work on kids to have to do at home.
Several of my family members homeschool, and one of their comments is always that it take less time to homeschool than to get through the same material in a traditional classroom.
My mother is a public school teacher, as are several of my friends, and my take on it is that it’s a lot harder to get work done in a given time if you are working with 30 kids (some of whom have learning or behavioral difficulties), than when you are working with 2-3 kids at home. This creates some “busy work” at school as teachers help children of different skill level. (Remember doing dittos while the slower readers worked with the teacher?)
Plus, now that schools are being relied upon (culturally) to teach a lot more than reading, writing and ‘rithmatic, school teachers have to cover material in class that homeschooling parents would just see as part of their everyday interaction with their kids. For instance, my kids spend time at school every week learning about bullying, how to take care of their bodies, and how to solve conflicts. This is stuff that is ‘every day life” at home, but is part of the curriculum at school.
I don’t think homework is usually about ‘getting through’ a particular topic. I think it is to help children who are learning at a slower pace get more reinforcement on a given topic, to enlist parents in the teaching/learning process, and to let parent see what kind of things their kids are working on and how they are doing with those topics.
Also, homework that involves research reports lets kids with hungry minds dive deeper into a given topic. My “gifted” nine year old LOVES homework (most of the time.) It’s just mom that wants to blow a fuse! Which tells me loud and clear that homeschooling in Denmark needs to be taken OFF the list of options for us! :-)
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