Comments on: Will Homework Ban Ease Student Stress?

San Francisco Bay Area Schools Move Toward Limiting Homework Assignments

[mamaof03]

I agree that children should have homework - in moderation. My 3rd grader came home today with over 13 pages of homework. That is just ridiculous. It wasn't a punishment - the whole class had to do this. My 5th & 7th graders do not come home with this much work. 5 1/2 hrs a day and 90 minutes of homework is fine - but he is not getting to bed until 9pm (doing homework from 3:30 until dinner then after dinner until the time he goes to bed)to wake up at 6am. He is 8 years old! Something has to be done.

[tvnewsguy42]

Homework should be abolished. There is really no research to prove it helps and can be counterproductive. School lasts about 7 hours a day and that is plenty of time to get everything done. Home is home and school should not be apart of it. Home is meant for family time and to give students their nightly break from school. School is not supposed to be all day, but homework makes it an all day thing.

[knyghtwolf]

My stepdaughter had 3 "F"s on her report card this first nine weeks. What was missing? She didn't turn in her assignments that were being done in CLASS!!! She spends about 15 minutes a night on homework and then wants to watch either WWE or that stupid soap opera channel. We have MTV, VH1, and several other channels barred due to the content of being pure stupidity and it was what she would skip school to come home and watch because school schedules interferred with some of the programs she watched. Physically and mentally she is 17 years old, emotionally she is between 10 - 12. I am trying to fix a problem that others gave up on long ago, she has been diagnosed with ODD and ADHD, but I love her just the same. Drop homework....isn't there a pill for that too?

[musty2u]

Without homework, there will be more time available to play on the "mywastespace"

[Syndicate]

I have no problem with a kid bringing home unfinished school work, but I hate it when teachers assign homework just to assign homework. My kindergartener has homework every night except friday. My 3rd grader never seems to have home work. So I asked him. He gets homework but its so easy it takes him all of 30 seconds to do it. Its rather cool to watch. Its too bad the teacher can't give him 30 seconds to do his math work.

[cjkjmj]

i think less homework is good. I have 4 children in elementary and work as a single parent and can honestly say that i learn something new about my children every "weekend". they are too busy with the "16" hour school. (Homework).
School is school and home is home. My kids are not tv hounds or game hounds. they don't even like them, less family closeness is what equals the mess we have today.

[dvillegas43-2009]

Dumb. Very dumb. Parents are being whiny because little Johnnie can't make his football camp. They want little Johnnie to be a big strong professional athlete and make millions of dollars playing a KIDS GAME. I know my rant is on a different tangent (ooh watch out big word there might need to do some HOMEWORK to figure it out) but that's what it is. Parents are too consumed with all the outside extracurricular activities that school work and homework is not as important as it was when I was in school.

[hotks]

im a student and i like the idea of no more homework. its super stressful. and i already spend 5 1/2 hours a day learning. why do i have to do it at home? it's like the teachers shove stuff down your throat at school. then just to haunt you when you come home.
and omg iochlan. i couldnt agree more.
most kids wont grow up to be some history nerd.
what the heck?

[gunownerdan]

Less Homework = More time for kids to watch "Entertainment Tonight" and "Access Hollywood". The dumbing-down of America is moving right along!

[mitywhity]

What a crock! Kids are now taught that they are the center of their own universe. All this self-esteem hooey is getting out of hand. No wonder people do all the extreme behavior that we see nowadays. They want to continue to be noticed to keep their self esteem up.

Give 'em enough homework to last them 'til nine o' clock and spare them from the TV, video games and the 'net.

[agnim]

"Will Homework Ban Ease Student Stress?"

Consciousness-Based Education is available to American children to reduce stress and promote learning.

No home work is the most foolish idea since breast implants.

Home is usually less stressed than school environment.
So at home, the children should be able to REVIEW and ABSORB what was taught at the stress filled school environment!

[musty2u]

Stress a student...oh my, whatever were they thinking? Oak Knoll? Isn't that where the navy had its main west coast psychiatry unit back in the 60s? Did some escapee go unreported and take over the school board?

[musty2u]

Stress a student...oh my, whatever were they thinking? Oak Knoll? Isn't that where the navy had its main west coast psychiatry unit back in the 60s? Did some escapee go unreported and take over the school board?

[gunownerdan]

Many people in San Francisco are already dumb enough. They voted away a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT for crying out loud. They need MORE homework over there, not less!!!!!

[anopinion1]

agnim u posted that in the wrong log

go away

[anopinion1]

Posted by mtredhawk200 at 02:32 PM : Feb 27, 2007

your kids just pretended to have that much homework every day so they didnt have to do any grunt work...

the all of high school i never left a homework assignment to be done at home except a few papers that needed to be written and then to study for the occasional test that was gonna be hard.....

their is plenty of time to finish things in other classes or during first period which was watching channel 1 in the morning. 3. something gpa to btw

[agnim]

U.S. Urged to Reveal Whereabouts of Prisoners Held in Secret Jails

More information has come to light about the CIA's network of secret overseas prisons. A Palestinian man named Marwan Jabour has told Human Rights Watch that he was held in a secret US prison in Afghanistan for nearly two years. According to Jabour, his clothes were taken from him when he arrived at the prison. He was left completely naked for a month and a half. He was chained tightly to the wall of his small cell so that he could not stand up. He was placed in painful stress positions so that he had difficulty breathing. And he was told that if he did not cooperate he would be put in a suffocating %u201Cdog box.%u201D For two years Jabour spent nearly all of his time alone in a windowless cell, with little human contact besides his captors. Jabour said, %u201CIt was a grave. I felt like my life was over.%u201D Based in part on information provided by Jabour, Human Rights Watch has released the names of 38 men believed to have been held in secret CIA prisons who have since disappeared. The group is calling on President Bush to account for the disappeared %u2013 all of whom are Muslim men

ANY AMERICANS?

[lochlan-2009]

Well most of the world doesn't get homework in their 9-5 jobs, why should kids get it? I do think school days should be lengthened, however, and the curriculum changed. Why do kids graduate without knowing how to do their taxes, or how to buy a house, or how to complain to a government official about rights violations, or how to do the everyday things that it is amazing how many Americans don't know how to do? But don't worry they know who ruled Rome 2000 years ago.

[us_infidel]

This is what happens when you let liberals run the education system. They can teach them all day long how to put condoms on veggies, but don't give them homework or expect them to meet standards. That's asking too much.

[mountainzen]

We are doing a huge injustice to these kids in preparing them for a stress-filed adult life without exposing them to some stress. If you learn to deal with stress when you are young, you might just be better at handling it when you're an adult. Are American kids doing so much better than their international peers to justify %u2018dumbing%u2019 them down a bit more?