School Homework Debate

Why dont these parents realise they can assign as much 'homework' to their own kids as they want?

As a parent, I'm hoping this will reduce the at-home workloads and shift more work towards school. What's the real life value of having students go to school and then spend all-nighters trying to do homework and all the expected extra-curricular?

My wife and I are contemplating unschooling our kids. The longer our son is in primary school, the more we see the deterioration of his willingness to learn anything school-related. He hates homework (as do most kids), and this is even more painful to see given that it has been shown that homework is essentially useless for learning performance. He still likes to write and do math, but as long as he is in school, we have to take care that his interest doesn’t go south.During school holidays,

No idea... But I could come up with a few hypothesis off the top of my head. Perhaps they were assigned homework as kids and haven't ever wondered if it was good or bad for their own education. Or, slightly more precisely, they think working hard at school (or later in life) means taking and completing work at home. Or, they're not as well informed on the topic as to what the research is suggesting.

You're conflating "selfwork" and homework. Doing the work yourself is indeed critical. It's the bit where you take it home when you're exhausted that is perplexing. Why can't we provide the time and space to do the self work at school?

I was pretty unreliable about homework, but the school I went to didn't necessarily take it out of my grades. At the time, I felt that the homework was unnecessary to learn the material being taught, so it was a waste of time.Now, with kids of my own, I'm wondering if the reason I have so much trouble doing work that I find uninteresting, even when I intellectually believe that I'd be happier having done it, is that I never practiced doing boring work while everyone else was. So even if hom

I'd blame homework, not education in general. Kids have gone to school since Shakespeare's time. But they went home and either helped their dad on the farm, helped their mum do the housework, got a part time job, or read books and hunted crawdads.Now, many people would consider it abuse, forcing a child of 14 to help out at work. Especially if they were only paid a nominal fee. They should be doing their homework, getting one-up on their peers. Unless they are from a family that doesn't value

In the grownups vs children the grownups win often enough. So the kids won some ground. ChatGPT could learn what assignments students are currently working on. (That is intelligence!)We could also come to our senses and consider if homework is a reasonable demand? It creates a disadvantage if the home situation isn't ideal.Not a lot of jobs require additional work from home hours after the shift. If it is so sensible why not add it to every job?If one could chose most would

in this case maybe force the student to complete homework during school hours. instead of expecting kid to do it at home.

I think I had a pretty similar experience in school to the authorI regret having that attitude nowkids hold adults to unrealistic expectations, they expect them to be omniscient (tbf adult don't really discourage this), and then become disillusioned when they realize that isn't the caseadults are human too, they make mistakes, they're not perfect, its really hard to figure out how to manage 30 some odd kids and figure out to best reach as many of them as possible, if they