One thing we should not do is give homework. We should offer it only and if a child chooses to go online and or to an older fluent speaker in the family system, or find some reading comprehensible input somewhere in the form of a book or something interesting, spending time with it whether it be a song or whatever, as long as it is something that the child wants to do, then praise the child’s initiative and give all kinds of credit for doing that work toward a higher grade or whatever.
Homework is about teachers’ egos. American families are falling apart right now and homework is a factor. Let the teachers in the other subjects give homework. We don’t need to. In our classes, it should be purely voluntary and done from happiness and curiosity.
How dare our colleagues load kids up with tons of homework when all indicators are that it does not help them, but only really helps the teacher, who can then crow to colleagues and parents about how challenging their classes are. They are challenging all right, they are challenging the very fabric of American society, the family. Isn’t American society under enough pressure right now?