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Originally Posted by Jamie
A lot of jobs do require you to work at home regardless. I think there does need to be a difference between home and school, but is a small bit of homework that takes 30 minutes is not out of the question. I also think it's important to reinforce things- primary school (not sure what the american comparison is) is generally a place for fun and kids don't really focus that much on the work and this is where they pick up key skills, such as addition and spelling. They *have* to learn these things to be successful and study after study will show that the best way to remember things, is through reinforcement- and one bit of homework a week can make all the difference.
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A few things, first, I'm not sure of many jobs that
require you to work at home? Unless it's an entire stay at home job, but usually you're provided with an office that you're able to go into to work, and aren't required to take work home.
Another thing is.. WHOA! Did you only get thirty minutes of homework a week? And have you reviewed the learning curriculum for primary schools? [Here they're elementary schools] My brother and sister probably get an average of 3 or 4 hours of homework a week, not including the time fighting them to make them do it. If it was 30 minutes once a week, I have to agree that'd be an entirely different story. And I had a class working as an elementary school teacher aid for a while, and they don't do all the crafts, let's sit around and play kind of stuff. That's actually been a complaint around here for a while. They go to school and work all day besides recess which is rather short compared to a child's attention span and the amount of work they're doing in class.
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Originally Posted by thebigmole
That's not what I'm saying. In high school it gets to a point where we are required to take classes that not all of us need for our careers. The kids who actually bother to remember what they learn in those classes are the ones who plan to use that information later in life. For those who don't plan to what's wrong with them doing enough to pass the class, even if the information doesn't stick.
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What's wrong with them doing just enough to pass the class? It's wasting their time, the teachers time, the school's time, and money. We're also not talking about high school classes, we're talking about kids under 11.
And just to regard high school, we're mostly required like two years of science, four years of english and for the most part you can pick the classes you want from within those categories, which is how I think it should be.
I think the system in the UK is entirely different too within the secondary schools?