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One of the funniest threads ever...
On Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:27 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 5/24/2013 2:23 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:38 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 1:05 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:25 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:55 AM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:15 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:34 AM, Hank© wrote: On 5/24/2013 10:03 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 7:08 AM, Eisboch wrote: "JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message ... On 5/24/2013 6:08 AM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 6:02 PM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:36 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 2:52 PM, wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 -0400, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private charter schools erodes the funds available for public schools. === Public schools are not failing from lack of funding. They are failing from lack of parental committment to the educational process. When sports and student "self esteem" are a schools top priorities, the parents are inevitably to blame. A big part of the problem is the number of kids who do not have functioning families. A big part of the problem is teachers and districts that spend too much time preaching and not enough time teaching, expecting the families and kids to make up for it at home at night. It's not like it used to be, our names are not all Cleaver, and a lot of kids don't have a mom or dad at home at night to guide them. With the money and resources we give them, they could do a lot more. Homework is part of education. How many folks do you think graduate from a decent program in college without homework? And yes, parents should be making sure the work gets done. John H. In college no problem, and even in public schools..... .... 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. 'SOME' families are not constructed to do homework. That's one reason most teachers stay after school to help kids with their homework. Most families, again in my experience, are properly constructed and ensure their kids do their homework. My daughters, with seven kids between them, are well able to construct their lives such that their kids do the homework. John H. Wow, aren't they special.. I am so glad they are the model for all parents out there... LOL! So happy all families have the time and schedule they do.... ---------------------------------------- Your expressions presented here sound more like an excuse than those of a philosophy. You need to relax... What makes you think he's not an accomplished relaxer? The fact that he seems to be looking at this place from a loogie point of view lately... Take the "homework" thing. Although I didn't pull out my calculator before my initial comment, I think any reasonable person would understand that what I was saying was "there is no reason for elementary and middle school kids to come home with 3-4 hours of homework, two to three days a week". Now remember, rarely do kids get homework on Friday so we are putting it all into four nights. If an elementary kid has an hour or a half hour most nights, and then some projects (in some cases the parents are "required" to be involved in) is ok, but still most teaching should be done in School... The home time is for the values and education that parents want to give, that are not bothered with during the school day... The teaching is done in school. The learning should take place both in school and at home. One of the values parents should pass on is the work ethic. That means kids do their job - which is to succeed in learning. That means doing their damn homework. John H. And all of my kids did... but it was not easy or necessary in some cases.. Especially in the old school system where elementary kids routinely got over two hour a night... That system is still doing that and others in the district too from what I hear. It shouldn't be 'easy' - that would be 'make work' crap. It's necessity should be driven by the standards of learning developed by your school system. If it doesn't support those, then it's unnecessary. The necessity of the individual standards is driven by the school system. John H. OK, you are all right... elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school... even if it does keep them up a couple hours later than they should be up. No time left for chores or God forbid, family time/play time... but you are all right, I am wrong. Why do they need 3-4 hours of homework, if that's what you're referring to? John H. I told you why they didn't need 3-4 hours a night in my first post! LOL! And yes, the District 14 SS often sent young kids home with well over two hours of homework, many times it was to "watch a program with your parents" type stuff too, and parents were required to participate... But you just said, "...elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school". I guess that's what had me confused. I'm really not sure what you're trying to say anymore. My bad, I guess. John H. -- Hope you're having a great day! |
One of the funniest threads ever...
SNERK....as Dr Phil always says....
"you can't make sense out of nonsense". You guys are chasing rainbows trying to get Snotties position. It is amusing, though. |
One of the funniest threads ever...
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ... We had "projects" in 5th and 6th grade that required work at home, but mostly at the library or the museum or some other venue. Real homework started in junior high, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, at least a couple of hours a night every weeknight. I got an A+ on a junior high science class project, a working cloud chamber, made from a glass cylinder cut down from a jug, two bands of copper, wire, a cookie sheet painted flat black, dry ice, a spark coil from an old ford, a battery, radium scraped off an old alarm clock dial, and use of the class filmstrip projector. I spent a lot of time researching and building that one. Got a dad from my scout troop who worked at a Yale bio lab to cut the glass cider jug into a cylinder. ----------------------------------------------- I helped my son with a "cloud chamber" also except I used an entirely different approach. Had a small glass "bell jar" to which a vacuum pump was attached. When you start lowering the pressure within the bell jar the water vapor contained in the atmosphere cools and expands almost instantaneously, creating a very visible vapor cloud. Similar process to what occurs naturally due to transitions from high to low pressure areas in the weather. The "cloud" doesn't last long. It's referred to the "Wilson Cloud", I guess named after some dude or dudette named Wilson who first observed it. |
One of the funniest threads ever...
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says... On Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:27 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 2:23 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:38 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 1:05 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:25 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:55 AM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:15 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:34 AM, Hank© wrote: On 5/24/2013 10:03 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 7:08 AM, Eisboch wrote: "JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message ... On 5/24/2013 6:08 AM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 6:02 PM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:36 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 2:52 PM, wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 -0400, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private charter schools erodes the funds available for public schools. === Public schools are not failing from lack of funding. They are failing from lack of parental committment to the educational process. When sports and student "self esteem" are a schools top priorities, the parents are inevitably to blame. A big part of the problem is the number of kids who do not have functioning families. A big part of the problem is teachers and districts that spend too much time preaching and not enough time teaching, expecting the families and kids to make up for it at home at night. It's not like it used to be, our names are not all Cleaver, and a lot of kids don't have a mom or dad at home at night to guide them. With the money and resources we give them, they could do a lot more. Homework is part of education. How many folks do you think graduate from a decent program in college without homework? And yes, parents should be making sure the work gets done. John H. In college no problem, and even in public schools..... .... 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. 'SOME' families are not constructed to do homework. That's one reason most teachers stay after school to help kids with their homework. Most families, again in my experience, are properly constructed and ensure their kids do their homework. My daughters, with seven kids between them, are well able to construct their lives such that their kids do the homework. John H. Wow, aren't they special.. I am so glad they are the model for all parents out there... LOL! So happy all families have the time and schedule they do.... ---------------------------------------- Your expressions presented here sound more like an excuse than those of a philosophy. You need to relax... What makes you think he's not an accomplished relaxer? The fact that he seems to be looking at this place from a loogie point of view lately... Take the "homework" thing. Although I didn't pull out my calculator before my initial comment, I think any reasonable person would understand that what I was saying was "there is no reason for elementary and middle school kids to come home with 3-4 hours of homework, two to three days a week". Now remember, rarely do kids get homework on Friday so we are putting it all into four nights. If an elementary kid has an hour or a half hour most nights, and then some projects (in some cases the parents are "required" to be involved in) is ok, but still most teaching should be done in School... The home time is for the values and education that parents want to give, that are not bothered with during the school day... The teaching is done in school. The learning should take place both in school and at home. One of the values parents should pass on is the work ethic. That means kids do their job - which is to succeed in learning. That means doing their damn homework. John H. And all of my kids did... but it was not easy or necessary in some cases.. Especially in the old school system where elementary kids routinely got over two hour a night... That system is still doing that and others in the district too from what I hear. It shouldn't be 'easy' - that would be 'make work' crap. It's necessity should be driven by the standards of learning developed by your school system. If it doesn't support those, then it's unnecessary. The necessity of the individual standards is driven by the school system. John H. OK, you are all right... elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school... even if it does keep them up a couple hours later than they should be up. No time left for chores or God forbid, family time/play time... but you are all right, I am wrong. Why do they need 3-4 hours of homework, if that's what you're referring to? John H. I told you why they didn't need 3-4 hours a night in my first post! LOL! And yes, the District 14 SS often sent young kids home with well over two hours of homework, many times it was to "watch a program with your parents" type stuff too, and parents were required to participate... But you just said, "...elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school". I guess that's what had me confused. I'm really not sure what you're trying to say anymore. My bad, I guess. John H. He just doesn't like the fact that parents have to get involved in their children's school work, as you can tell by his rant above. |
One of the funniest threads ever...
On 5/24/2013 3:31 PM, Eisboch wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ... We had "projects" in 5th and 6th grade that required work at home, but mostly at the library or the museum or some other venue. Real homework started in junior high, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, at least a couple of hours a night every weeknight. I got an A+ on a junior high science class project, a working cloud chamber, made from a glass cylinder cut down from a jug, two bands of copper, wire, a cookie sheet painted flat black, dry ice, a spark coil from an old ford, a battery, radium scraped off an old alarm clock dial, and use of the class filmstrip projector. I spent a lot of time researching and building that one. Got a dad from my scout troop who worked at a Yale bio lab to cut the glass cider jug into a cylinder. ----------------------------------------------- I helped my son with a "cloud chamber" also except I used an entirely different approach. Had a small glass "bell jar" to which a vacuum pump was attached. When you start lowering the pressure within the bell jar the water vapor contained in the atmosphere cools and expands almost instantaneously, creating a very visible vapor cloud. Similar process to what occurs naturally due to transitions from high to low pressure areas in the weather. The "cloud" doesn't last long. It's referred to the "Wilson Cloud", I guess named after some dude or dudette named Wilson who first observed it. My dad and I built a generator powered city once... and I built a small computer that could do math based on a game I saw on TV... |
One of the funniest threads ever...
On 5/24/2013 3:12 PM, John H wrote:
On Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:27 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 2:23 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:38 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 1:05 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:25 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:55 AM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:15 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:34 AM, Hank© wrote: On 5/24/2013 10:03 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 7:08 AM, Eisboch wrote: "JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message ... On 5/24/2013 6:08 AM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 6:02 PM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:36 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 2:52 PM, wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 -0400, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private charter schools erodes the funds available for public schools. === Public schools are not failing from lack of funding. They are failing from lack of parental committment to the educational process. When sports and student "self esteem" are a schools top priorities, the parents are inevitably to blame. A big part of the problem is the number of kids who do not have functioning families. A big part of the problem is teachers and districts that spend too much time preaching and not enough time teaching, expecting the families and kids to make up for it at home at night. It's not like it used to be, our names are not all Cleaver, and a lot of kids don't have a mom or dad at home at night to guide them. With the money and resources we give them, they could do a lot more. Homework is part of education. How many folks do you think graduate from a decent program in college without homework? And yes, parents should be making sure the work gets done. John H. In college no problem, and even in public schools..... .... 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. 'SOME' families are not constructed to do homework. That's one reason most teachers stay after school to help kids with their homework. Most families, again in my experience, are properly constructed and ensure their kids do their homework. My daughters, with seven kids between them, are well able to construct their lives such that their kids do the homework. John H. Wow, aren't they special.. I am so glad they are the model for all parents out there... LOL! So happy all families have the time and schedule they do.... ---------------------------------------- Your expressions presented here sound more like an excuse than those of a philosophy. You need to relax... What makes you think he's not an accomplished relaxer? The fact that he seems to be looking at this place from a loogie point of view lately... Take the "homework" thing. Although I didn't pull out my calculator before my initial comment, I think any reasonable person would understand that what I was saying was "there is no reason for elementary and middle school kids to come home with 3-4 hours of homework, two to three days a week". Now remember, rarely do kids get homework on Friday so we are putting it all into four nights. If an elementary kid has an hour or a half hour most nights, and then some projects (in some cases the parents are "required" to be involved in) is ok, but still most teaching should be done in School... The home time is for the values and education that parents want to give, that are not bothered with during the school day... The teaching is done in school. The learning should take place both in school and at home. One of the values parents should pass on is the work ethic. That means kids do their job - which is to succeed in learning. That means doing their damn homework. John H. And all of my kids did... but it was not easy or necessary in some cases.. Especially in the old school system where elementary kids routinely got over two hour a night... That system is still doing that and others in the district too from what I hear. It shouldn't be 'easy' - that would be 'make work' crap. It's necessity should be driven by the standards of learning developed by your school system. If it doesn't support those, then it's unnecessary. The necessity of the individual standards is driven by the school system. John H. OK, you are all right... elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school... even if it does keep them up a couple hours later than they should be up. No time left for chores or God forbid, family time/play time... but you are all right, I am wrong. Why do they need 3-4 hours of homework, if that's what you're referring to? John H. I told you why they didn't need 3-4 hours a night in my first post! LOL! And yes, the District 14 SS often sent young kids home with well over two hours of homework, many times it was to "watch a program with your parents" type stuff too, and parents were required to participate... But you just said, "...elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school". I guess that's what had me confused. I'm really not sure what you're trying to say anymore. My bad, I guess. John H. I was being sarcastic. What I am saying is elementary and even middle school kids do not need 2-4 hours a night of homework... High School is different, but still, two is plenty if the teachers are doing their job. There may be projects, and finals etc, I am talking about general every day homework.... |
One of the funniest threads ever...
On 5/24/13 5:15 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 5/24/2013 3:12 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:27 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 2:23 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:38 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 1:05 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:25 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:55 AM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:15 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:34 AM, Hank© wrote: On 5/24/2013 10:03 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 7:08 AM, Eisboch wrote: "JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message ... On 5/24/2013 6:08 AM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 6:02 PM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:36 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 2:52 PM, wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 -0400, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private charter schools erodes the funds available for public schools. === Public schools are not failing from lack of funding. They are failing from lack of parental committment to the educational process. When sports and student "self esteem" are a schools top priorities, the parents are inevitably to blame. A big part of the problem is the number of kids who do not have functioning families. A big part of the problem is teachers and districts that spend too much time preaching and not enough time teaching, expecting the families and kids to make up for it at home at night. It's not like it used to be, our names are not all Cleaver, and a lot of kids don't have a mom or dad at home at night to guide them. With the money and resources we give them, they could do a lot more. Homework is part of education. How many folks do you think graduate from a decent program in college without homework? And yes, parents should be making sure the work gets done. John H. In college no problem, and even in public schools..... .... 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. 'SOME' families are not constructed to do homework. That's one reason most teachers stay after school to help kids with their homework. Most families, again in my experience, are properly constructed and ensure their kids do their homework. My daughters, with seven kids between them, are well able to construct their lives such that their kids do the homework. John H. Wow, aren't they special.. I am so glad they are the model for all parents out there... LOL! So happy all families have the time and schedule they do.... ---------------------------------------- Your expressions presented here sound more like an excuse than those of a philosophy. You need to relax... What makes you think he's not an accomplished relaxer? The fact that he seems to be looking at this place from a loogie point of view lately... Take the "homework" thing. Although I didn't pull out my calculator before my initial comment, I think any reasonable person would understand that what I was saying was "there is no reason for elementary and middle school kids to come home with 3-4 hours of homework, two to three days a week". Now remember, rarely do kids get homework on Friday so we are putting it all into four nights. If an elementary kid has an hour or a half hour most nights, and then some projects (in some cases the parents are "required" to be involved in) is ok, but still most teaching should be done in School... The home time is for the values and education that parents want to give, that are not bothered with during the school day... The teaching is done in school. The learning should take place both in school and at home. One of the values parents should pass on is the work ethic. That means kids do their job - which is to succeed in learning. That means doing their damn homework. John H. And all of my kids did... but it was not easy or necessary in some cases.. Especially in the old school system where elementary kids routinely got over two hour a night... That system is still doing that and others in the district too from what I hear. It shouldn't be 'easy' - that would be 'make work' crap. It's necessity should be driven by the standards of learning developed by your school system. If it doesn't support those, then it's unnecessary. The necessity of the individual standards is driven by the school system. John H. OK, you are all right... elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school... even if it does keep them up a couple hours later than they should be up. No time left for chores or God forbid, family time/play time... but you are all right, I am wrong. Why do they need 3-4 hours of homework, if that's what you're referring to? John H. I told you why they didn't need 3-4 hours a night in my first post! LOL! And yes, the District 14 SS often sent young kids home with well over two hours of homework, many times it was to "watch a program with your parents" type stuff too, and parents were required to participate... But you just said, "...elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school". I guess that's what had me confused. I'm really not sure what you're trying to say anymore. My bad, I guess. John H. I was being sarcastic. What I am saying is elementary and even middle school kids do not need 2-4 hours a night of homework... High School is different, but still, two is plenty if the teachers are doing their job. There may be projects, and finals etc, I am talking about general every day homework.... I am still trying to figure out how you elected yourself arbiter of how much homework is enough or too much and whether a teacher is doing his or her job. On what basis are you qualified to post such grandiose positions? |
One of the funniest threads ever...
On 5/24/2013 7:52 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 5/24/13 5:15 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 3:12 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:27 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 2:23 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:38 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 1:05 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:25 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:55 AM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:15 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:34 AM, Hank© wrote: On 5/24/2013 10:03 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 7:08 AM, Eisboch wrote: "JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message ... On 5/24/2013 6:08 AM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 6:02 PM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:36 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 2:52 PM, wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 -0400, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private charter schools erodes the funds available for public schools. === Public schools are not failing from lack of funding. They are failing from lack of parental committment to the educational process. When sports and student "self esteem" are a schools top priorities, the parents are inevitably to blame. A big part of the problem is the number of kids who do not have functioning families. A big part of the problem is teachers and districts that spend too much time preaching and not enough time teaching, expecting the families and kids to make up for it at home at night. It's not like it used to be, our names are not all Cleaver, and a lot of kids don't have a mom or dad at home at night to guide them. With the money and resources we give them, they could do a lot more. Homework is part of education. How many folks do you think graduate from a decent program in college without homework? And yes, parents should be making sure the work gets done. John H. In college no problem, and even in public schools..... .... 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. 'SOME' families are not constructed to do homework. That's one reason most teachers stay after school to help kids with their homework. Most families, again in my experience, are properly constructed and ensure their kids do their homework. My daughters, with seven kids between them, are well able to construct their lives such that their kids do the homework. John H. Wow, aren't they special.. I am so glad they are the model for all parents out there... LOL! So happy all families have the time and schedule they do.... ---------------------------------------- Your expressions presented here sound more like an excuse than those of a philosophy. You need to relax... What makes you think he's not an accomplished relaxer? The fact that he seems to be looking at this place from a loogie point of view lately... Take the "homework" thing. Although I didn't pull out my calculator before my initial comment, I think any reasonable person would understand that what I was saying was "there is no reason for elementary and middle school kids to come home with 3-4 hours of homework, two to three days a week". Now remember, rarely do kids get homework on Friday so we are putting it all into four nights. If an elementary kid has an hour or a half hour most nights, and then some projects (in some cases the parents are "required" to be involved in) is ok, but still most teaching should be done in School... The home time is for the values and education that parents want to give, that are not bothered with during the school day... The teaching is done in school. The learning should take place both in school and at home. One of the values parents should pass on is the work ethic. That means kids do their job - which is to succeed in learning. That means doing their damn homework. John H. And all of my kids did... but it was not easy or necessary in some cases.. Especially in the old school system where elementary kids routinely got over two hour a night... That system is still doing that and others in the district too from what I hear. It shouldn't be 'easy' - that would be 'make work' crap. It's necessity should be driven by the standards of learning developed by your school system. If it doesn't support those, then it's unnecessary. The necessity of the individual standards is driven by the school system. John H. OK, you are all right... elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school... even if it does keep them up a couple hours later than they should be up. No time left for chores or God forbid, family time/play time... but you are all right, I am wrong. Why do they need 3-4 hours of homework, if that's what you're referring to? John H. I told you why they didn't need 3-4 hours a night in my first post! LOL! And yes, the District 14 SS often sent young kids home with well over two hours of homework, many times it was to "watch a program with your parents" type stuff too, and parents were required to participate... But you just said, "...elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school". I guess that's what had me confused. I'm really not sure what you're trying to say anymore. My bad, I guess. John H. I was being sarcastic. What I am saying is elementary and even middle school kids do not need 2-4 hours a night of homework... High School is different, but still, two is plenty if the teachers are doing their job. There may be projects, and finals etc, I am talking about general every day homework.... I am still trying to figure out how you elected yourself arbiter of how much homework is enough or too much and whether a teacher is doing his or her job. On what basis are you qualified to post such grandiose positions? I am still trying to figure out why you think I am going to answer any of your stupid questions... |
One of the funniest threads ever...
On 5/24/13 7:59 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 5/24/2013 7:52 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote: On 5/24/13 5:15 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 3:12 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:27 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 2:23 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:38 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 1:05 PM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:25 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:55 AM, John H wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:15 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 11:34 AM, Hank© wrote: On 5/24/2013 10:03 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/24/2013 7:08 AM, Eisboch wrote: "JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message ... On 5/24/2013 6:08 AM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 6:02 PM, John H wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:36 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: On 5/22/2013 2:52 PM, wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 -0400, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private charter schools erodes the funds available for public schools. === Public schools are not failing from lack of funding. They are failing from lack of parental committment to the educational process. When sports and student "self esteem" are a schools top priorities, the parents are inevitably to blame. A big part of the problem is the number of kids who do not have functioning families. A big part of the problem is teachers and districts that spend too much time preaching and not enough time teaching, expecting the families and kids to make up for it at home at night. It's not like it used to be, our names are not all Cleaver, and a lot of kids don't have a mom or dad at home at night to guide them. With the money and resources we give them, they could do a lot more. Homework is part of education. How many folks do you think graduate from a decent program in college without homework? And yes, parents should be making sure the work gets done. John H. In college no problem, and even in public schools..... .... 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. 'SOME' families are not constructed to do homework. That's one reason most teachers stay after school to help kids with their homework. Most families, again in my experience, are properly constructed and ensure their kids do their homework. My daughters, with seven kids between them, are well able to construct their lives such that their kids do the homework. John H. Wow, aren't they special.. I am so glad they are the model for all parents out there... LOL! So happy all families have the time and schedule they do.... ---------------------------------------- Your expressions presented here sound more like an excuse than those of a philosophy. You need to relax... What makes you think he's not an accomplished relaxer? The fact that he seems to be looking at this place from a loogie point of view lately... Take the "homework" thing. Although I didn't pull out my calculator before my initial comment, I think any reasonable person would understand that what I was saying was "there is no reason for elementary and middle school kids to come home with 3-4 hours of homework, two to three days a week". Now remember, rarely do kids get homework on Friday so we are putting it all into four nights. If an elementary kid has an hour or a half hour most nights, and then some projects (in some cases the parents are "required" to be involved in) is ok, but still most teaching should be done in School... The home time is for the values and education that parents want to give, that are not bothered with during the school day... The teaching is done in school. The learning should take place both in school and at home. One of the values parents should pass on is the work ethic. That means kids do their job - which is to succeed in learning. That means doing their damn homework. John H. And all of my kids did... but it was not easy or necessary in some cases.. Especially in the old school system where elementary kids routinely got over two hour a night... That system is still doing that and others in the district too from what I hear. It shouldn't be 'easy' - that would be 'make work' crap. It's necessity should be driven by the standards of learning developed by your school system. If it doesn't support those, then it's unnecessary. The necessity of the individual standards is driven by the school system. John H. OK, you are all right... elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school... even if it does keep them up a couple hours later than they should be up. No time left for chores or God forbid, family time/play time... but you are all right, I am wrong. Why do they need 3-4 hours of homework, if that's what you're referring to? John H. I told you why they didn't need 3-4 hours a night in my first post! LOL! And yes, the District 14 SS often sent young kids home with well over two hours of homework, many times it was to "watch a program with your parents" type stuff too, and parents were required to participate... But you just said, "...elementary kids need 3-4 hours of structured "teaching" after school". I guess that's what had me confused. I'm really not sure what you're trying to say anymore. My bad, I guess. John H. I was being sarcastic. What I am saying is elementary and even middle school kids do not need 2-4 hours a night of homework... High School is different, but still, two is plenty if the teachers are doing their job. There may be projects, and finals etc, I am talking about general every day homework.... I am still trying to figure out how you elected yourself arbiter of how much homework is enough or too much and whether a teacher is doing his or her job. On what basis are you qualified to post such grandiose positions? I am still trying to figure out why you think I am going to answer any of your stupid questions... I don't, because I don't believe you to be capable of coherent thought. |
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