Calgary dad wins no-homework lawsuit for his kids

[Chi Meson]

I think that may be part of the problem. You give 1 hour, their math teacher gives 1 hour, their english teacher gives 1 hour, etc. If everyones giving an hour of homework per class wheres the time for sports, clubs, work and fun coming from? Only a very small portion of students are going to thrive in such an environment, most will be completely turned off to school and stop carring. I understand your class is honors, but each teacher feels their material is just as important, if not more so, than the next and forget this isn't college and most of their students won't be going into that specific field after school anyway.

I rarely had more than a half hour of homework, I did it all during lunch and breaks during class time. I didn't have a choice in HS since after school I had 3-4 hours of practice or a competition and then work.

Sorry to hear that. Why do you feel that it was necessary to spend 3-4 hours of practice at a sport, but 1 hour of practice at physics is not worth the while?

Anyway, if Trent Cleverpants find that homework is not necessary and chooses to not practice problem solving, or if Sally Highmind feels that reading through a chapter on circular motion is beneath her dignity, they may choose to not do it. If they can still find the ability to write decent answers to conceptual questions and solve a challenging problem, then fine. I don't grade the Homework that heavily. If on lab reports and on tests, they can show they understand concepts, analyze data, and solve problems, then they get good grades.

Those that choose to regularly not do homework generally do not do well on any form of assessment.

 

[rootX]

I think that may be part of the problem. You give 1 hour, their math teacher gives 1 hour, their english teacher gives 1 hour, etc. If everyones giving an hour of homework per class wheres the time for sports, clubs, work and fun coming from? Only a very small portion of students are going to thrive in such an environment, most will be completely turned off to school and stop carring. I understand your class is honors, but each teacher feels their material is just as important, if not more so, than the next and forget this isn't college and most of their students won't be going into that specific field after school anyway.

I rarely had more than a half hour of homework, I did it all during lunch and breaks during class time. I didn't have a choice in HS since after school I had 3-4 hours of practice or a competition and then work.

Whatever prevents the idiots/unmotivated people from going into the work ...

We had an awesome math professor in our first year who would give us really hard quizzes every week. He finished the material before any other class. All engineering classes had that course with different professor. Most students did not like him and tried to stop the quizzes many times and kept on whining to the department etc... But in the end, our class average was way better than any other class. And lots of people from our class aced the final exam.