More of my silly comments about homework
Remember, The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish equals TCAH for the remainder of the post and unless otherwise stated, the information in quote came from their book, the other stuff is my nonsense babble.
Let’s talk about parental involvement for a minute ok? Many of you may remember when I first took over this site, I referenced a couple of posts. You can read them here and here and they are about parental involvement.
Now, after you skim through that, you can see that I wasn’t delusional with my thoughts. TCAH says that in the 1990’s, parental involvement and parent-teacher partnership were big buzzwords. And, then, then the quote comes, (amazing how they can say in a few sentences what it took me two looong posts to say, eh?):
“Moreover, few parents would call what we have with our kids’ schools a “partnership” when we rarely have a say about our “part” or whether we want to turn our homes into second classrooms at night. Yet, many feel we have no choice.”
Yea, what she said!
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Don’t get me wrong, (or TCAH), I don’t think that the idea is that the child never ever brings another book or assignment home. The idea is that teachers return to a time when the
“whole point of homework is for a child to become an independent learner…..If he’s got to have his mother or father sitting beside him, it defeats the whole purpose.”
Now, that said, I might be wrong but I do believe that the very people who are crying out over the insane amounts of homework that our children bring home would not be so vigilant about it if they felt assured that the above quote were true…homework is to help the child become an independent learner….
Is that brain surgery? Apparently it may be!
The bottom line here is this, and I quote again, from TCAH,
“I think that schools are depending upon parents for a lot of the teaching…..”
And, you already know how I feel about that. If not, read here, here, and here.
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I’ll try to move right along……
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