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Homework is bad because for some kids it can be impossible - like what if you have to care for your younger siblings, or your home has no desk space or quiet pl

Homework is bad because for some kids it can be impossible - like what if you have to care for your younger siblings, or your home has no desk space or quiet place to work? To be honest extending the school day would probably make the most sense as it would help working parents as well if children left school at 5pm or 6pm.

_AzMoo 8y ago
My step-daughter's school library is open until 5pm and she goes there every day after school to do her homework. Do other schools not offer this?
- huffmsa 8y ago
  How does she get home at 5pm? Does the school offer a bus service at that hour?
  - garmaine 8y ago
    Most neighborhood schools in non-rural districts don't offer school bus transport outside of special circumstances in the first place...
    - huffmsa 8y ago
      Well that's the point. The library being open until 5pm is great and dandy if the kids have a way to get home, but for a lot of families, it's school bus or bust.
  - williamdclt 8y ago
    Lessons finished at ~4:30pm when I was in school, it's the same pretty much everywhere in France and I would assume this isn't the only country like that. I'm not shocked at the idea of getting home at 5pm (we had no school bus service, just the regular public transportation which works well here)
    - huffmsa 8y ago
      American high schools start at ~0730, though that's gradually being moved back, and classes end around 1400-1500. So he library being open that late is meaningful. And as bizarre as this might sound, outside of New York City, unaccompanied children on public transportation is basically not a thing in America. We assume the children are lost / abandoned and the parents are delinquent / trying to get the kid kidnapped by a pedo. There was a decently widespread news story a few years ago about someone calling the police on a mother because she let her kids go to the park by themselves.
  - _AzMoo 8y ago
    I pick her up, but there's also plenty of public transport available for her to take, which is what she does when she's with her father.

_AzMoo 8y ago

My step-daughter's school library is open until 5pm and she goes there every day after school to do her homework. Do other schools not offer this?

huffmsa 8y ago
How does she get home at 5pm? Does the school offer a bus service at that hour?
- garmaine 8y ago
  Most neighborhood schools in non-rural districts don't offer school bus transport outside of special circumstances in the first place...
  - huffmsa 8y ago
    Well that's the point. The library being open until 5pm is great and dandy if the kids have a way to get home, but for a lot of families, it's school bus or bust.
- williamdclt 8y ago
  Lessons finished at ~4:30pm when I was in school, it's the same pretty much everywhere in France and I would assume this isn't the only country like that. I'm not shocked at the idea of getting home at 5pm (we had no school bus service, just the regular public transportation which works well here)
  - huffmsa 8y ago
    American high schools start at ~0730, though that's gradually being moved back, and classes end around 1400-1500. So he library being open that late is meaningful. And as bizarre as this might sound, outside of New York City, unaccompanied children on public transportation is basically not a thing in America. We assume the children are lost / abandoned and the parents are delinquent / trying to get the kid kidnapped by a pedo. There was a decently widespread news story a few years ago about someone calling the police on a mother because she let her kids go to the park by themselves.
- _AzMoo 8y ago
  I pick her up, but there's also plenty of public transport available for her to take, which is what she does when she's with her father.