A repost:
Four kinds of teachers give forced/required class homework:
- Those who are mean.
- Those who are afraid.
- Those who need approval.
- Those who can’t get the job done in the time they have.
I have never given assigned/forced homework. It just seems so insulting to the kids, most of whom don’t do it anyway. The teacher can get their job done in class. But the mean ones, those who are afraid, those who need the approval, those who teach such boring classes that the kids hate the class, those folks need to stop with the homework.
Homework is a national sickness. It hurts children. I’m now officially convinced of that fact, which is the fruit of a question that I have meditated on in silence for a long time*.
Why parents who love their children think it is so necessary is beyond me.
*Like in the Little Prince:
[C’était] le fruit d’un problème longtemps médité en silence…