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- LongShlong, on 03/11/2008, -37/+200Here's a plan... Why not just get your ***** together? Stop going on Myspace/Facebook, being lazy, drinking and/or doing drugs after school and do your damn work, or you get beaten. Unless you want to get dominated by the more educated countries later (or sooner) in life.
- Continuum, on 03/11/2008, -63/+171"Children should be able to explore, experiment and enjoy their learning without feeling pressurised," it says.
I think someone should have been more "pressurised" to do their English homework. - swazo, on 03/11/2008, -4/+84stop trying to learn me things.
- DonWigler, on 03/11/2008, -11/+90Sounds like the teachers want to do less work.
- whatthefu, on 03/11/2008, -7/+72That is really cynical and a ridiculous generalization. They pile on homework these days, and usually it's busy work.
- eggsovereasy, on 03/11/2008, -2/+54Not having homework is the only thing I like about being an adult... don't take this from me too!
- dubloe7, on 03/11/2008, -4/+55They couldn't have done this when I was still in school?
I aced almost all of my tests but only did half of the homework for most of my classes. - 808kick, on 03/11/2008, -22/+69It's spelt correctly and the usage is correct. What's wrong?
- colonelpanic, on 03/11/2008, -0/+46When I was in middle/high school, homework was random crap out of the book, which often contained errors itself, explains things poorly (if at all), not to mention the teacher barely looked at it before it was assigned.
Now in college, my homework assignments often do help me understand concepts better, as they are taught better, and the material is laid out well. - sagat, on 03/11/2008, -1/+46The Germans eliminated homework years ago. The idea being that if a student can't cover everything they need in a 6 hour school day then the teacher is inefficient and 1 extra hour at home isn't going o make a difference.
- korea, on 03/11/2008, -13/+50When I was in school, homework helped concepts click better than the teachers could sometimes.
- 9bpm9, on 03/11/2008, -12/+45The only class that ever gives constant homework is math. This union needs to pull their heads out of their asses, doing homework helps you remember something because you are doing it repetitively. I've had classes where teachers don't teach and give little homework, but still give hard tests, which makes kids fail.
- gwisawesome, on 03/11/2008, -6/+37seriously? pretty soon you are going to be able to pass high school for writing your name on your diploma.
my high school was way too easy, 4.0 in high school turned into a 1.9 first semester of college - adml_shake, on 03/11/2008, -2/+33Teachers seem to think that massive amounts of quantity seem to be the way to go. I've always felt that only a few problems, but the kind you have to think about and work at to finish were the way to go.
- cgm1985, on 03/11/2008, -5/+34It is a British article, hence the British spelling.
- Tyr7BE, on 03/11/2008, -6/+33No, they don't. I finished high school 8 years ago, and I didn't crack a textbook once. Sure, that's hyperbole, but literally I would open up the books maybe once every two weeks, for an hour absolute tops. The fact that it's busy work is what makes it possible to do exactly this. I always just did the work in class. The teacher teaches the lesson, and you do your busywork while that's going down. 4 times out of 5 I could get a full assignment done while the lesson is being taught. When that's not possible, just do it on the bus on the way in in the morning.
Let's face it, high school isn't exactly rocket science. It doesn't really require you to be hanging off the teacher's every word to understand. Read what's in the book, understand it (remember it's high school, it ain't hard), and do the assignment while the teacher is teaching the lesson. Look up time to time to make sure you're on the right track. It's what I did, and it effectively gave me 6 hours per day where I did homework and learned on my own. Then I got home at 3 in the afternoon or whenever school ended, and called it quits for the day.
Goddamn kids need a lesson in efficiency. - BingoPower, on 03/11/2008, -2/+26"A Royal Commission should be established to investigate why so many children feel unhappy"
Because it inteferes with their World Of Warcraft Raids, of course. - syphondex, on 03/11/2008, -10/+34Wow, um, just, wow.
Oh noes, life can be stressfull and pressured, what is this world coming to!!1!
Fark, people need to grow up and realise, homework is generally useless, but provides life skills for kids and teaches them about deadlines and how to deal with pressure - Aooogah, on 03/11/2008, -0/+22RTFA. It says they're proposing banning homework for the young'uns and reducing the amount for teens.
- koko775, on 03/11/2008, -6/+27Formally, it's supposed to be pressured. I have the distinct impression that every human living on Earth or in a space station feels 'pressurized'.
Edit: LOL, seems like a fair number of diggers need to do their English homework too. - Justice101, on 03/11/2008, -0/+21Your both right, it's really heads or tails. Really depends on the teacher, and what they assign, but more often than not, sadly, what you get is just busy work.
- nyx210, on 03/11/2008, -9/+29Why are people so anal about spelling? You understand what they mean anyway...
- rhbama13, on 03/11/2008, -4/+24this is all about the teachers because 1 assignment for the student is 30-200 assignments for the teacher
- peestandingup, on 03/11/2008, -3/+22Do your homework or get beaten.
Hmmm. Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot! - emartin24, on 03/11/2008, -1/+20Yes, the point of homework is to learn, but there is a big difference between homework for learning and homework to meet quotas. We've (in the US) somehow come to think that shoving information down our children's throats so that they can regurgitate it for standardization testing is a good thing.
- osmaker, on 03/11/2008, -1/+19This is an important bit:
"... calling for homework to be abolished for younger children and cut back for teenagers" - TheZorch, on 03/11/2008, -1/+18First off, I agree with the whole thing about homework. It does indeed cause a lot of problems. Second, schools need to stop trying to force conformity onto students and let them be who they are. Everyone is different, each person learns in a different way and at a different rate than everyone else. Standardized tests and cookie cuter standardized curriculums are not only a waste of time but also cause stress on students and contribute heavily to early drop-out rates and failure rates. A major change must be made to the US educational system if our nation is to have a future in the world economy. There is no other option.
- koko775, on 03/11/2008, -0/+17You forgot to quote the full thing: http://www.answers.com/pressurized&r=67
"# Informal. To subject to excessive stress, strain, or vexation: an executive who was pressurized by a heavy workload."
INFORMAL. As in, _negation_ of formal. It's even the same entry. - ThE0eNiGmA, on 03/11/2008, -1/+18You are an idiot. This is taking place in England. Hell, does telegraph.co.uk say anything to you?
- LanceUppercut, on 03/11/2008, -7/+23Me fail english?, that's unpossible!
- jlebrech, on 03/11/2008, -3/+19Anyone seen Idiocracy?
- NikoKun, on 03/11/2008, -0/+16This is a tough topic... On the one hand, Homework helps children study, and retain more of the knowledge they learn in school (supposedly anyway)...
But on the other hand, homework forces itself upon the free time of a child, the time in our lives when we shouldn't be forced to spend all our free time working... Homework takes away a child's playtime, a vital part of development. It causes extra stress, and further problems which come with too much stress.
What's worse, is kids who choose to live more freely, and spend their free time NOT doing homework, suffer in school because teachers expect kids to do work at home.
In the working world, how often are we expected, to take our work home with us, and work on it in OUR freetime, without being paid for that time? I would say, most jobs don't do that... Because people refuse to waste their freetime, without getting paid for it.
But a child is not paid to go to school, so how come we expect them to spend their home time, continuing to work on school work?
Kids should be encouraged to study on their own, but if we are to solve this problem, turn-in homework, probably should be banned as an old, unnecessary practice. Why can't all the educated learning, take place at school? Is our education system so ***** up, so unproductive, that we have to force children to spend every waking our working, rather than playing (which again, is a vital part of growing up!)
I'm sure alternatives to homework, could be created... But it's going to take a lot of work, experimenting, and a lot of testing out.
On a side note, I feel like I should be re-reimbursed for the time of my childhood, which was wasted because I was forced into doing pointless school work, at home, in MY freetime... Which served very little purpose in helping me in life later. Most of the important knowledge I've learned, I learned because I was enjoying it. - skubiszm, on 03/11/2008, -1/+17Are you sure it wasn't the booze?
- kuzotz, on 03/11/2008, -0/+16Pretty much the dumb kids fail because they can't think critically.
repetition does not equate to education. - mattmcm, on 03/11/2008, -8/+24Simply put: British English. Although the Z version is way more common.
- vertinox, on 03/11/2008, -1/+15Know why it turned in 1.9? Because taking tests, memorization, and homework has nothing to do with critical thinking and independent work. They don't teach those skills in high school and no one will admit that you can do 5 hours of homework a night memorizing the periodic table and the entire dictionary, but as soon as you step into college and you don't know critical thinking and research... Well... You get 1.9s
- saranagati, on 03/11/2008, -2/+16Many classes aren't like that though. I remember in high school and prior I would get assignments to do during class, then homework to do after class, while other classes wouldn't allow me to be doing homework while the teacher was teaching. To claim that high school isn't rocket science is a bit naive, it's the hardest schooling that person has done so far. It's easy to say, oh any moron should be able to learn it very easily, but you're saying it after you've finished high school and possibly a higher education. In many classes you would have to listen to what the teacher was saying as well as read the book, otherwise the format of the question on a test wouldn't make sense.
The article however focused on younger kids. Young kids need to be learning about things like motor skills, critical thinking, and how to be social. Giving a young child 2 or 3 hours of homework to do after class takes away from the time they can be learning to do what they need to learn in order to become functional humans. - s0nicfreak, on 03/11/2008, -4/+17Kids spend all day working at school, they SHOULD be able to come home and take a break, hang out, party, go on myspace/facebook, etc.
- surKaz, on 03/11/2008, -2/+15The say homework can be useful in the article, it's too much homework that can cause problems.
- Mehster, on 03/11/2008, -5/+18This is from the UK... That's how it's spelled.
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -2/+14One hour of a germany class in any subject is equal to 6 weeks in an american school in the same subject.
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -3/+15I have to disagree. Repetition is not something that should be associated with learning.
In schools where students come from high income families, students are trained to create solutions to problems (ie. creating formulas to find the area of a rectangle from scratch).
In schools where students are from lower income families, students are trained to follow steps to get to a solution (ie. being given the formula to find the area of a rectangle, and asked to repeat the process a hundred times over)—repetition is a skill associated with lower income jobs.
Homework can be helpful, but not if it's the same math problem over and over again with different numbers. - scottstevenson, on 03/11/2008, -0/+12Maybe there's a middle ground. They could assign projects periodically, but not complusively assign tasks every single night. I think the latter leads to too much busywork, which is a complete waste of time.
- Blandyman, on 03/11/2008, -0/+11Too bad no teacher just teaches. All of them teach for 15 minutes and then give you an assignment for the next 45, and on top of that, most add MORE ***** to your list. Not to mention, after middle-school, the only classes that teach curriculum that should be worked on past the "teaching" phase are Sciences and Mathematics. Beyond that, it's memorization of facts and good listening skills. I think English is important, mind you, but the fact that we read five pages of "Catcher In The Rye" over the course of 40 minutes because we take turns reading aloud, makes the class take longer than necessary and overall, creates a bigger workload once we're out of school.
It's a shame only teachers in the UK are crying out for this. The stupidity that is homework (for senior high schoolers and SOME middle school classes) is astounding.
Honestly, though, I think homework in elementary school (at much LOWER levels than the ***** they assign now) is very necessary. - conjugator, on 03/11/2008, -0/+11Do any of the above five diggers have kids in their home. Are any of you the main person responsible for the child's education? I am and I can tell you the level of homework is one reason we are home scholars.
- cromulent742, on 03/11/2008, -1/+12An overheated private removed his flak jacket, revealing a T-shirt with an iron-on sporting the Mad slogan "Up With Mini-Skirts". Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it.
- LongShlong, on 03/11/2008, -6/+17Are you actually sticking up for idiots that can't handle homework? Wow. Well, there you have it. Then again, there is a slight flaw in what I first said, as homework isn't all part of education, but also partly motivation... Which is what a lot of people are lacking. If anything, homework should be allowed, but only if you're slipping with the course load, or it spills over.
In any case... if you're celebrating not having to do homework, that's just lazy and ignorant. And who cares who runs the country... Look out for yourself: Education and motivation will help with that. - CaptainHarlock, on 03/11/2008, -3/+13I hate feeling "pressurised". 15 PSI is FAR too much.
- apc3161, on 03/11/2008, -4/+14I call on a ban to teachers unions creating political influence because they are ruining the education in this country. There is nothing wrong with people coming together in unions to be stronger in principal. That's fine. But thats not what we have going on in this country. Teachers unions are exerting political influence and pushing laws that benefit them at the expense of education in this country. Watch these two documentaries if you want a better understanding of this.
Free to Choose: Education by Milton Friedman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bxeP-krUrdU (Part 1)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw (Stupid in America)
There are some case studies where it can take up to 3 years to get a union school teacher fired, regardless of how bad they are. It is incredible. - highstriker, on 03/11/2008, -0/+10That may be true in some places, but my mom works at an elementary school, and I have a number of friends who are going into elementary education. I can hardly believe how much stuff some kids are being forced to do. More than three hours of homework every night for someone in second grade is completely absurd, and far more homework than I, or my parents, or even my grandparents, ever had at that age.
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