I’m not kidding. There are people who think that more homework means more learning. I have it in writing from this email I got from a member of our group. As they say, you can’t make this stuff up:
I’m starting to see where many parents in my rich suburban district think that they’re perfect. They believe deeply that more homework and memorization and the traditional methods that all my colleagues use here are the best way to acquisition. I will never agree with how my colleagues teach so I have to move forward in doing what I think is best for the kids without their support.
A funny/not funny thing happened in one class. A student that I had last year compared another student to having an advantage because he had the other Spanish teacher and not me last year. I said what does that mean? He said it is because she assigns so much homework! I couldn’t believe the obvious problem with his statement. Most of them really have no clue.
And if you are reading this and you believe that more homework is the answer, then you’re probably visiting the wrong internet venue on the subject of language education.