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wouldn't it be apocalyptic if this idea catches on & spreads across the country? everybody (on this site anyway) knows this guy is mental right? he said a lot of homework is "busy-work," especially what he said about math. according to him, once someone does the first few problems & gets the idea there's no point in doing 20 or 50 or 100 more. i was reminded of an instructor I had who brought a 3-ring binder to class one day, opened it up to show us what was inside & it was page after page of solved problems, just to show us what he had to do in order to get good at the stuff. & he said there were a dozen more binders like it in his office (which there was, in a cardboard box beneath his chalkboard). altogether they must have made a wad of paper a foot thick... yeah... "busywork." I can imagine physics or engineering are similar.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/11/18/calgary-homework-school-students.htmlA Calgary family concerned about their children's homework load has signed a contract with their school to eliminate the problem altogether.
Tom and Shelli Milley have signed a formal "no homework" contract with their children's school.
"With two children in school there was just an inordinate amount of homework coming home and a lot of it was busy work," said Tom Milley.
The family has signed what is called a differentiated homework plan with their children's Catholic school. Their daughter, Brittany, and son, Spencer — now in grades five and seven — won't have to bring work home. Instead, they'll be marked only on work they do in the classroom.
The homework load kept his children from improving their weak areas, said Milley. He also questioned the value of the homework.
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