The research is clear that homework almost never actually increases comprehension or retention, particularly in children. It’s just one of the “shoulds” that we all got used to. Bunch of worker drone training Calvinist nonsense.
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I can only speak for the school I work in but:
All homework given out is stuff we’ve already covered in class
The overlap between the kids who most need the extra practice and the kids who regularly do their homework is pretty small
The time we spend giving out, explaining, going through answers and marking the damn homework is probably enough to just recap the topic in class
Homework adds to the stress of school
Takes away much of the little free time kids have outside of school
Often is nothing more than pointless “busy work” that doesn’t actually teach anything or help with reflecting on the information learned in class
Literally, the only useful homework I remember doing was math.
Everything else was pretty much unnecessary for actually learning anything.
What does copying all these history questions from my book to my notebook actually help with? I’ll have to read the section a bajilion times to memorize it for the assessment anyway. That homework didn’t help me learn the subject, and neither did a majority of the others.
