On Wed, 22 May 2013 21:03:50 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:

On 5/22/2013 7:33 PM, Eisboch wrote:




On 5/22/13 7:18 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:


.... thirty years ago... Families are not constructed to "do homework"
anymore, it's just a fact of life. My mom realized that some 40 years
ago and helped insititute unwritten policy that stands in my home town
to this day and I rarely saw my girls come home with more than a half to
one hour of work, and many times, none... At the same time, our town is
a high rated system when it comes to diplomas... so, it can be done. At
the same time they don't fool around with a lot of ****, everybody gets
a voice, I will leave it at that.

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I am not exactly sure what you are implying. It sounds like you are
saying that your mom helped institute a policy that all but guarantees a
HS diploma, regardless of academic achievement or qualification. Is that
what you are saying?



Wow, I think you are channeling loogie but I will spell it out for you.
Schools can in fact teach the students without 40 plus hours of homework
a semester. Our system has been doing that for over 50 years and our
system is constantly among the highest rated educations in the state...

I would believe that only if your students take three or four subjects, and have a lot of in-school
time for homework. If your middle- and high school students are not given a few hours during the
school day for homework, then I don't believe the students are doing as well as you say. I believe
this - the way to learn math is to do math. Your 40+ hours of homework a semester amounts to less
than a half-hour per day. Perhaps your school day goes from 7:30 AM to 6:00PM? Then I'd believe you.

John H.
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