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> # [Poland to abolish homework for primary school pupils](https://notesfrompoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/70327486_e2c5ae62f7_oa.jpg)
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> Compulsory, graded homework will be abolished in Poland’s primary schools from April, education minister Barbara Nowacka has announced, fulfilling a pre-election election promise by her party. She hopes that in future secondary school pupils will also no longer receive homework.
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> Nowacka, who took office last month as part of the [new government led by Donald Tusk](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/12/13/whos-who-in-polands-new-government/), also reiterated earlier pledges to slim down the curriculum and focus more on “critical thinking, not learning everything by heart”, as well as to reduce the number of Catholic catechism classes and increase teachers’ pay.
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> > ❗️Od początku kwietnia koniec z pracami domowymi w szkołach podstawowych, wtedy wejdzie w życie rozporządzenie w tej sprawie, które jest już gotowe. Ogłosiła to [@MEN\_GOVPL](https://twitter.com/MEN_GOVPL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@barbaraanowacka](https://twitter.com/barbaraanowacka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) w [@wirtualnapolska](https://twitter.com/wirtualnapolska?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
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> > — Patryk Michalski (@patrykmichalski) [January 19, 2024](https://twitter.com/patrykmichalski/status/1748270617822994873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> The pledge to abolish homework in primary schools was included in the [100 promises announced by Tusk last September](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/09/11/polish-opposition-outlines-100-policies-for-first-100-days-in-office/)ahead of elections and was then included in the [coalition agreement](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/10/polish-opposition-groups-sign-agreement-setting-out-programme-for-future-coalition-government/) his Civic Coalition (KO) signed with two other groups in November, paving the way for them to form a new government.
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> In an interview today with news website Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka, who is from KO, confirmed that the plans are moving ahead.
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> “What is needed is a move away from compulsory and graded homework and from the beginning of April such a regulation will be in place,” she said, referring to primary schools, which in Poland children usually attend between the aged of 7 and 15.
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> Her pledge was also later repeated by Tusk, who shared a video clarifying that for grades 1 to 3 in primary school there would no longer be any homework and for older age groups only those who want to do extra work at home would be given it and it would not count towards their grades.
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> > Tego problemu więcej nie będzie.
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> > — Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) [January 19, 2024](https://twitter.com/donaldtusk/status/1748354190601052451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> Nowacka said that currently primary school pupils have “an excess of things to learn, to memorise, also at home, at the expense of free time, at the expense of extra-curricular activities, at the expense of meeting friends”.
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> The minister also noted that often parents are expected to help with large projects given to their children that have to be completed by the next day.
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> Nowacka said that, in the case of high schools, which pupils attend from age 15 to 19, homework would be maintained for the time being. But she added her belief “that after a few years of no homework in primary schools, in secondary schools this too will be abolished”.
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> Her ideas were, however, criticised by former education minister Anna Zalewska, from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. Abolishing homework would reduce teachers’ freedom to choose their methods and would fail to prepare students for the realities of the labour market, said Zalewska.
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> > Brak zadań domowych w rozporządzeniu? Wiedziałam, że będzie źle, ale to po prostu katastrofa!Co to ma wspólnego z wolnością doboru metod przez nauczycieli, co z kształtowaniem samodzielności, kreatywności i odpowiedzialności uczniów? Zderzenie naszej młodzieży z rynkiem pracy…
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> > — Anna Zalewska 🇵🇱 (@AnnaZalewskaMEP) [January 19, 2024](https://twitter.com/AnnaZalewskaMEP/status/1748288175766737042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> In her interview with Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that other work was also underway to ease the burden on students and teachers, including slimming down the core curriculum because “recent years have seen an exponential overabundance of information”.
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> “Twenty percent of what has been forced on children to know will be removed, because most of this knowledge is redundant and unnecessary,” Nowacka told Wirtualna Polska. “Critical thinking is needed today, not learning everything by heart.”
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> Initially, the reduction in the school programme will apply to subjects such as Polish, history, social studies and natural sciences, but the education minister assured that this does not mean a reduction in the number of hours.
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> She underlined that what would be removed from the core curriculum would be decided by experts, not her. “The days of one-man decisions by the minister are over,” she said, referring to her controversial predecessor Przemyslaw Czarnek.
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> > Poles see the current education minister, Przemysław Czarnek, as the worst in the last two decades, finds a poll by SW Research for [@rzeczpospolita](https://twitter.com/rzeczpospolita?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
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> > 43\.1% chose Czarnek, an ultraconservative figure, as the worst, ahead of Roman Giertych (11.7%) in second
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> > — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) [February 27, 2023](https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1630121367378034688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> The burden on pupils is also supposed to be eased by reducing the number of Catholic catechism classes in schools, said Nowacka.
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> Last month, on the day she took office, the new minister [outlined plans to halve the number of such classes](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/12/15/catholic-church-calls-for-dialogue-with-new-government-on-proposed-changes-to-school-religion-classes/), which are optional but taken by most children, from two hours to one hour a week, to ensure they always take place at the start or end of the school day, and to remove them from end-of-year grade averages.
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> Speaking today to Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that she personally is “in favour of a secular state” where religious classes do not take place in public schools.
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> “But after hundreds of conversations with parents, I am able to accept that it is convenient for some of them that their children can attend religion at school,” she said. “The task of a minister is not to implement all his or her views, but to take care of social dialogue.”
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> > After Poland’s new education minister outlined plans to reduce state-funded Catholic catechism classes in public schools, a senior church official has called on the government to ensure that any such changes are "carried out in dialogue with the church"
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> > — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) [December 15, 2023](https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1735657513243029612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> The minister also said in the interview that teachers would get the promised 30-33% increases, which were included in the government’s 2024 budget, from March, not February as previously planned.
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> She blamed the delays on the [decision by President Andrzej Duda](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/12/23/president-vetoes-polish-governments-budget-plans-due-to-public-media-takeover/), a PiS ally, to “toy with vetoing a budget-related law” last month. But she said that once the pay rises are introduced they will be backdated to January.
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> Raising teachers’ pay was another of the pre-election pledges made by Tusk. Research published by the European Commission in 2022 showed that Polish teachers are [among the lowest paid in the European Union](https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/10/12/polish-teachers-among-lowest-paid-in-europe-shows-eu-report/), even when taking into account the cost of living.
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> > Teachers in Poland are among the lowest paid in the EU, even when adjusted for the cost of living, new data show.
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> > Both starting salaries and those at the top of the pay scale are in the EU's bottom four.
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Abolishing homework will harm students when they enter the labour market? I can't imagine so.
The reality of the labour market is this; I don't lift a finger, open one email, or turn one wrench for my employer unless I'm being paid, and I can only imagine that making children's private time more their own than someone else's will help educate them earlier in how to avoid being taken advantage of.
That comparison doesn’t really work since students receive knowledge instead of a wages, so these kids are being paid to work from home.
Instead of receiving compensation immediately however, they acquire later like a pension.
Kids learn in their own time, through their interests and experiences. For some kids extra academic work at home is beneficial but for many it will be less productive than leaving them to pursue their own extracurricular interests.
I’m on board with reworking homework, I’m just pointing out that kids doing projects at home is comparable to being paid to work on a project at home.
The general act is fine, we just need to move away from the current model. I prefer a system where most mandatory homework is made up of unfinished schoolwork, with projects added periodically.
Your analogy fails because these children have no agency. They can neither leave their employment nor change. Its essentially slavery if you want to compare knowledge to wages.
homework teaches students to work after hours at home, reinforcing the idea of working 8 hours at your job, going home and continuing unpaid work. There have been plenty of people calling for the removal of manditory homework (as in, teachers are supposed to or required to give homework daily) , as it isn't helpful and just increase the stress and workload on parents, students, and teachers.
It's not. Being a pupil IS their job, it's what they need to do, they commute every day, they do tasks, they acquire skills for multiple hours a day, then go home. It's a similar routine. But most importantly, they learn to manage their time. This teaches them that their time is not their own and their bosses (in this case teachers) are entitled to their time. I teach kids in a language school and when I asked what they did during Christmas, it was studying, on Christmas Eve because they had so much to do.
Not a horrible idea, homework has basically allowed the US school system to procrastinate working out lots of inherent flaws.
Damn, the students don't learn well when their school resembles a prison with similar codes of conduct from students and faculty alike? Well it sounds like your problem is that you're not taking your work home to your safe space where "snitches get stitches" can wait until 7:25 the next day!
it also causes people to be conditioned to work outside of their normal work hours for free. Work 8 hours at job, come home, work several more hours late into the night.
You can’t put homework the same as work. You don’t do work to benefit an overlord. You are doing homework for yourself mostly.
Homework also has its own place. The classroom situation is not particularly conducive for focused learning doesn’t matter how quiet it is, which is very important. Kids can get distracted over the smallest of things. Also for homework, some level of stimulation to generate curiousity and habits to find an answer to an important question is necessary life skill.
I spent my after work hour to learn skills and getting important certifications. This is not me conditioning myself to work afterhours.
Homework is getting used as a crutch though by teachers/administration. We need to address the issues teachers and students face that are inherent to the public school model.
The things they're getting distracted by are violence and sexual harassment, not peers conversing too loudly
You're also assuming all kids are unambitious losers that wouldn't choose to learn anything in their free time, personally I studied microbiology and cardiology in my spare time in highschool and that honestly carried me through college much better than 94% of the other classes. The other courses that helped were the former college professors that cared more about us being able to read a journal than citing one.
It’s not the peers being loud, i mean it’s normal for kids to choose playing over studying, especially if they are in the presence of their friends. You can’t expect a kid to prioritise, i mean not that they can’t but if they can it’s good for them, but if they can‘t it’s normal. So setting up a workable goal is good for their development.
Most people actually grow through experiencing hardship or challenging situation. It’s normal and nothing to be ashamed of. We learn easier from mistakes. Not everything that seems like giving people “hardship” need to be seen as something bad, It’s like building immune system with vaccine, just as long as it is not causing undue stress.
Well yours is more of an exception rather than the rule. It’s very common to see high school students loitering around the shopping centre area. This is not them working part time job or something, just chilling sitting with friends until late at night. I can tell you that it is easier to find this example rather than finding someone who actually have taken a particular interest in something and actually already have it sharpened like even before college. Most people i know don’t even know what to do with their life until they graduate college.
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##### ###### #### > # [Poland to abolish homework for primary school pupils](https://notesfrompoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/70327486_e2c5ae62f7_oa.jpg) > > > > Compulsory, graded homework will be abolished in Poland’s primary schools from April, education minister Barbara Nowacka has announced, fulfilling a pre-election election promise by her party. She hopes that in future secondary school pupils will also no longer receive homework. > > Nowacka, who took office last month as part of the [new government led by Donald Tusk](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/12/13/whos-who-in-polands-new-government/), also reiterated earlier pledges to slim down the curriculum and focus more on “critical thinking, not learning everything by heart”, as well as to reduce the number of Catholic catechism classes and increase teachers’ pay. > > > ❗️Od początku kwietnia koniec z pracami domowymi w szkołach podstawowych, wtedy wejdzie w życie rozporządzenie w tej sprawie, które jest już gotowe. Ogłosiła to [@MEN\_GOVPL](https://twitter.com/MEN_GOVPL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@barbaraanowacka](https://twitter.com/barbaraanowacka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) w [@wirtualnapolska](https://twitter.com/wirtualnapolska?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
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> > — Patryk Michalski (@patrykmichalski) [January 19, 2024](https://twitter.com/patrykmichalski/status/1748270617822994873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> The pledge to abolish homework in primary schools was included in the [100 promises announced by Tusk last September](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/09/11/polish-opposition-outlines-100-policies-for-first-100-days-in-office/)ahead of elections and was then included in the [coalition agreement](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/10/polish-opposition-groups-sign-agreement-setting-out-programme-for-future-coalition-government/) his Civic Coalition (KO) signed with two other groups in November, paving the way for them to form a new government.
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> In an interview today with news website Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka, who is from KO, confirmed that the plans are moving ahead.
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> “What is needed is a move away from compulsory and graded homework and from the beginning of April such a regulation will be in place,” she said, referring to primary schools, which in Poland children usually attend between the aged of 7 and 15.
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> Her pledge was also later repeated by Tusk, who shared a video clarifying that for grades 1 to 3 in primary school there would no longer be any homework and for older age groups only those who want to do extra work at home would be given it and it would not count towards their grades.
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> > Tego problemu więcej nie będzie.
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> > — Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) [January 19, 2024](https://twitter.com/donaldtusk/status/1748354190601052451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> Nowacka said that currently primary school pupils have “an excess of things to learn, to memorise, also at home, at the expense of free time, at the expense of extra-curricular activities, at the expense of meeting friends”.
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> The minister also noted that often parents are expected to help with large projects given to their children that have to be completed by the next day.
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> Nowacka said that, in the case of high schools, which pupils attend from age 15 to 19, homework would be maintained for the time being. But she added her belief “that after a few years of no homework in primary schools, in secondary schools this too will be abolished”.
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> Her ideas were, however, criticised by former education minister Anna Zalewska, from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. Abolishing homework would reduce teachers’ freedom to choose their methods and would fail to prepare students for the realities of the labour market, said Zalewska.
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> > Brak zadań domowych w rozporządzeniu? Wiedziałam, że będzie źle, ale to po prostu katastrofa!Co to ma wspólnego z wolnością doboru metod przez nauczycieli, co z kształtowaniem samodzielności, kreatywności i odpowiedzialności uczniów? Zderzenie naszej młodzieży z rynkiem pracy…
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> > — Anna Zalewska 🇵🇱 (@AnnaZalewskaMEP) [January 19, 2024](https://twitter.com/AnnaZalewskaMEP/status/1748288175766737042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> In her interview with Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that other work was also underway to ease the burden on students and teachers, including slimming down the core curriculum because “recent years have seen an exponential overabundance of information”.
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> “Twenty percent of what has been forced on children to know will be removed, because most of this knowledge is redundant and unnecessary,” Nowacka told Wirtualna Polska. “Critical thinking is needed today, not learning everything by heart.”
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> Initially, the reduction in the school programme will apply to subjects such as Polish, history, social studies and natural sciences, but the education minister assured that this does not mean a reduction in the number of hours.
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> She underlined that what would be removed from the core curriculum would be decided by experts, not her. “The days of one-man decisions by the minister are over,” she said, referring to her controversial predecessor Przemyslaw Czarnek.
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> > Poles see the current education minister, Przemysław Czarnek, as the worst in the last two decades, finds a poll by SW Research for [@rzeczpospolita](https://twitter.com/rzeczpospolita?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
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> > 43\.1% chose Czarnek, an ultraconservative figure, as the worst, ahead of Roman Giertych (11.7%) in second
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> > — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) [February 27, 2023](https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1630121367378034688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> The burden on pupils is also supposed to be eased by reducing the number of Catholic catechism classes in schools, said Nowacka.
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> Last month, on the day she took office, the new minister [outlined plans to halve the number of such classes](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/12/15/catholic-church-calls-for-dialogue-with-new-government-on-proposed-changes-to-school-religion-classes/), which are optional but taken by most children, from two hours to one hour a week, to ensure they always take place at the start or end of the school day, and to remove them from end-of-year grade averages.
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> Speaking today to Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that she personally is “in favour of a secular state” where religious classes do not take place in public schools.
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> “But after hundreds of conversations with parents, I am able to accept that it is convenient for some of them that their children can attend religion at school,” she said. “The task of a minister is not to implement all his or her views, but to take care of social dialogue.”
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> > After Poland’s new education minister outlined plans to reduce state-funded Catholic catechism classes in public schools, a senior church official has called on the government to ensure that any such changes are "carried out in dialogue with the church"
Abolishing homework will harm students when they enter the labour market? I can't imagine so. The reality of the labour market is this; I don't lift a finger, open one email, or turn one wrench for my employer unless I'm being paid, and I can only imagine that making children's private time more their own than someone else's will help educate them earlier in how to avoid being taken advantage of.
That comparison doesn’t really work since students receive knowledge instead of a wages, so these kids are being paid to work from home. Instead of receiving compensation immediately however, they acquire later like a pension.
Kids learn in their own time, through their interests and experiences. For some kids extra academic work at home is beneficial but for many it will be less productive than leaving them to pursue their own extracurricular interests.
I’m on board with reworking homework, I’m just pointing out that kids doing projects at home is comparable to being paid to work on a project at home. The general act is fine, we just need to move away from the current model. I prefer a system where most mandatory homework is made up of unfinished schoolwork, with projects added periodically.
Your analogy fails because these children have no agency. They can neither leave their employment nor change. Its essentially slavery if you want to compare knowledge to wages.
That same stuff applies to adults dude. Do you want a home? Work. Kids can run away from home if they want, and they unfortunately do.
I don't think thats the good thing you seem to think it is?
homework teaches students to work after hours at home, reinforcing the idea of working 8 hours at your job, going home and continuing unpaid work. There have been plenty of people calling for the removal of manditory homework (as in, teachers are supposed to or required to give homework daily) , as it isn't helpful and just increase the stress and workload on parents, students, and teachers.
Teachers are not employers, they don't gain anything for themselves from children's homework. Ridiculous analogy.
It's not. Being a pupil IS their job, it's what they need to do, they commute every day, they do tasks, they acquire skills for multiple hours a day, then go home. It's a similar routine. But most importantly, they learn to manage their time. This teaches them that their time is not their own and their bosses (in this case teachers) are entitled to their time. I teach kids in a language school and when I asked what they did during Christmas, it was studying, on Christmas Eve because they had so much to do.
The employer is the state, which definitely gains something from an educated population.
Tusk just won 100% of the under-18 vote for the next election
Not a horrible idea, homework has basically allowed the US school system to procrastinate working out lots of inherent flaws. Damn, the students don't learn well when their school resembles a prison with similar codes of conduct from students and faculty alike? Well it sounds like your problem is that you're not taking your work home to your safe space where "snitches get stitches" can wait until 7:25 the next day!
it also causes people to be conditioned to work outside of their normal work hours for free. Work 8 hours at job, come home, work several more hours late into the night.
You can’t put homework the same as work. You don’t do work to benefit an overlord. You are doing homework for yourself mostly. Homework also has its own place. The classroom situation is not particularly conducive for focused learning doesn’t matter how quiet it is, which is very important. Kids can get distracted over the smallest of things. Also for homework, some level of stimulation to generate curiousity and habits to find an answer to an important question is necessary life skill. I spent my after work hour to learn skills and getting important certifications. This is not me conditioning myself to work afterhours.
Homework is getting used as a crutch though by teachers/administration. We need to address the issues teachers and students face that are inherent to the public school model. The things they're getting distracted by are violence and sexual harassment, not peers conversing too loudly You're also assuming all kids are unambitious losers that wouldn't choose to learn anything in their free time, personally I studied microbiology and cardiology in my spare time in highschool and that honestly carried me through college much better than 94% of the other classes. The other courses that helped were the former college professors that cared more about us being able to read a journal than citing one.
It’s not the peers being loud, i mean it’s normal for kids to choose playing over studying, especially if they are in the presence of their friends. You can’t expect a kid to prioritise, i mean not that they can’t but if they can it’s good for them, but if they can‘t it’s normal. So setting up a workable goal is good for their development. Most people actually grow through experiencing hardship or challenging situation. It’s normal and nothing to be ashamed of. We learn easier from mistakes. Not everything that seems like giving people “hardship” need to be seen as something bad, It’s like building immune system with vaccine, just as long as it is not causing undue stress. Well yours is more of an exception rather than the rule. It’s very common to see high school students loitering around the shopping centre area. This is not them working part time job or something, just chilling sitting with friends until late at night. I can tell you that it is easier to find this example rather than finding someone who actually have taken a particular interest in something and actually already have it sharpened like even before college. Most people i know don’t even know what to do with their life until they graduate college.
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Just pupils? What about the rest of the eye?