Ok so new learning techniques and funny syllabus changes aside - what is happening with schoolkids?!?
Something that really grates my carrot is how nobody seems to be able to do their own homework anymore.
We all knew kids in school who didn't do their own homework. To me it's a bit LESS respectable than just not doing it. Not doing it is an act of open defiance - getting mummy to do it is just plain wimpy!
I used to have a friend at school called Nicole. She was an only child to an ageing couple and she got away with murder. Including having her mom do all her homework. Much to our dismay her mom got better marks than us. I remember being pissed off even then that her volcano project was cooler than mine becuase I spent time making mine and working out how to make it explode just like a real volcano.
My brother is becoming that kid. He's 12 and somehow managed to get the whole thing done for him! grrrrrrr. What pisses me off the most is that I helped them! A 12 year old child cannot possibly understand what makes Kubla Kahn such a beautiful poem!
But who's fault is this whole homework for is actually moms mentality? It the teachers who give them homework that is too complicated or too much? Is it the kids just being lazy? Is it the parents who just do the stuff for them?
Maybe it's a combination of the above but i know when i was a child i did all my own homework - thats what its for isnt it? What is the point of homework otherwise?
Are we breeding a generation of helpless adults?
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Well...I know that I am frustrated that I spent 300 years going to school and the amount of stuff I am assigned to do as a PARENT is awful. I hate that part.
Kids are getting more homework. It starts in Kindergarten. Actually, kids in Preschool have homework.
I think that parents who do their child's work FOR them are doing a huge disserve.
THAT said, I also think that parents who don't supervise their child's homework reek.
I admit, I long for the day when I don't have to, though.
Yeah - school was traumatic enough the first time!
The latest form is his maths homework. And I never really was any good at maths at all!
I just don't understand why parents and siblings have to struggle through it... grrrrr...
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