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Is Homework Detention necessary?

Is homework detention necessary

  • yes

    Votes: 14 66.7%
  • no

    Votes: 7 33.3%

  • Total voters
    21
Yes, they do.
People are required to pay for schools and thus use them, it's only right that they try to get the best possible outcome for their kids.

Um, yeah they do. Gov't mandates a lot of things on curriculum and whatnot even for private schools and homeschool.

Actually, there are a number of programs that allow a parent to pull their children from a school and send them to a private school using the tax dollars they paid. Plus, they could do what most people do...MOVE TO A GOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT. Public school is not a guarantee of a bad education.
 
Actually, there are a number of programs that allow a parent to pull their children from a school and send them to a private school using the tax dollars they paid. Plus, they could do what most people do...MOVE TO A GOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT. Public school is not a guarantee of a bad education.

Sorry, there are no such options here.
I can home school, send my kid to public school or private school.
Of course no matter my choice, I still don't have the choice, to not pay for the crappy public school.
 
Just do the HW and there won't be a problem :shrug:

If they know of the consequences of not doing the work and don't do it anyway then that is their fault.

Here's the issue: People who think kids should be on detention for missing homework assignments care too much about Homework. Back when my school did detention (two school years ago), people only got Saturday Detention based on their behavior and tardies. Now nobody at my school, not even the school principal, gives out detentions for any reason. If they still do, it's very rare.

Also, detentions would only be served if there's going to be buses available to take the child home. I'm shocked there hasn't been a lawsuit where a child was given after school detention but had no way home.
 
And the whole point of homework is the student is free to buck the education standards, they can complete the task as they see fit without the confines of a dictatorial teacher. The purpose is they attempt to tackle the work and manage their time accordingly. Strengths or weaknesses be damned and be punished accordingly if they haven,t.

It may be hard for the clever ones who have to set aside ten minutes of their time to a useless pursuit (no matter how many times a better person than that is required to waste time in the real world), the not so gifted have to better themselves over corresponding hours and improves themselves.

If that's the case, why can't homework be extra credit?
 
Many schools need to bring back the concept of "discipline".

And no, suspending students or forcing them to skip class is never a good form of discipline. It baffles me that schools think that kicking someone out of the school for a week or two is a punishment... Most kids that are misbehaving have bad family situations to begin with. What makes the school think the parents will even care? In reality the school administrators just don't want to do their jobs...
 
This thread is full of flawed beliefs: There's the flawed premise that forcing students to do homework is the same as educating them. There's the flawed premise that the stuff that they're learning is adequately preparing them for the real world, if only they'd do their homework. And there's the flawed premise that even pointless homework assignments teach students "responsibility," and that this is somehow a good thing.

As an independently-minded entrepreneur, and as someone who cares about critical thinking and creativity, that last point is especially infuriating to me...as it is exactly the OPPOSITE lesson students should take away from such experiences: If someone is wasting your time, the "responsible" thing to do is to avoid it if possible, and do the bare minimum if it's unavoidable. There will always be people trying to waste your time, and the best course of action is to shut them out of your life as much as possible.
 
This thread is full of flawed beliefs: There's the flawed premise that forcing students to do homework is the same as educating them. There's the flawed premise that the stuff that they're learning is adequately preparing them for the real world, if only they'd do their homework. And there's the flawed premise that even pointless homework assignments teach students "responsibility," and that this is somehow a good thing.

As an independently-minded entrepreneur, and as someone who cares about critical thinking and creativity, that last point is especially infuriating to me...as it is exactly the OPPOSITE lesson students should take away from such experiences: If someone is wasting your time, the "responsible" thing to do is to avoid it if possible, and do the bare minimum if it's unavoidable. There will always be people trying to waste your time, and the best course of action is to shut them out of your life as much as possible.

This 1000x.
 
A whole bunch of fail in this thread, I'm sorry I read it. If doing just enough to get buy is what passes for education nowadays, I'll be hiring more Asians well into the future.

Make sure those Asians know the difference between "buy" and "by", as long as you're busy criticizing everyone else's education, lol! :mrgreen:
 
A whole bunch of fail in this thread, I'm sorry I read it. If doing just enough to get buy is what passes for education nowadays, I'll be hiring more Asians well into the future.

So, uh I guess you can't run it all by yourself then. Isn't that the montra? "I built it myself". But then again, you spent your educational years just to make the football team.
 
I think homework has gotten WAY out of control. The kids can barely carry all the books they have to carry home as it is. They have like 30 pounds of books in their backpacks. I think homework is a waste of time. Most kids don't do it, or don't do it right anyway. The teachers only check to see if the children did their homework, they don't check each and every paper to see that they're right. I think that 6-7 hours of school a day is MORE than enough for children. They need time to be kids and play too.

Kids aren't sitting and doing academics for 6-7 hours a day. At least 1.5 hours of that time is socializing, playing or doing some creative (lunch, recess, music, art, etc.). I give my first graders one or two things to do for homework every night. I don't think that's asking too much.
 
So, uh I guess you can't run it all by yourself then. Isn't that the montra? "I built it myself". But then again, you spent your educational years just to make the football team.

Very clever, are you an airplane engine? The rest of your post is gibberish in search of a point. As for buy, a silly autocorrect that the above poster with hours of entertainment. I aim to please.
 
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