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Couldn’t agree more. Homework was something I dreaded all the time. I skipped most of my homework whenever possible and my grades reflected it. For some odd rea

Couldn’t agree more. Homework was something I dreaded all the time. I skipped most of my homework whenever possible and my grades reflected it. For some odd reason I did well on tests, possibly by cramming the night before - a skill that did well by me through college. Doing well on tests got me by enough to get a 3.4 gpa through high school despite skipping most of my homework. When possible I did copy from other kids and sometimes did some assignments in class before the homework was to be turned in. I’d literally sit there writing things down in the 10 minutes before we were to hand in our assignments. My algebra teacher noticed this and just shook her head but seemed to be totally fine with it - I think deep down inside she knew there was too much homework.

huffmsa 8y ago
If you're doing fine in the tests without homework, then the homework is unnecessary. My biggest issue with it was that you'd be graded on completeness for the 50 assigned examples. If I can learn it in 5-10 examples, why am I going to waste time on another 40 non-interesting problems?
- mjevans 8y ago
  The teacher doesn't have or doesn't know about pass/fail module scoring. A given sub-topic should be setup like this: * 90% of the points for the module possible if you get 100% on the test. * 60% of the points for the module possible as correctly doing the homework. * Allow for re-submission of the homework (with work shown) for up to a week AFTER the test //results//. The idea is to actually teach the subject, not to pass an arbitrary test on that subject. If you bomb the test, do all of the possible problem questions and recover most or all of the grade.
quadrangle 8y ago
I actually had an 8th grade teacher do a special conference with my parents after I complained strongly enough about the nonsense of homework, and she was gracious enough to give me an exception that I could be graded on tests alone. Other kids liked that homework points boosted their grades from mediocre test scores. But I aced all the tests and thus didn't have to do any homework. That was a strange one-time case though.

huffmsa 8y ago

If you're doing fine in the tests without homework, then the homework is unnecessary. My biggest issue with it was that you'd be graded on completeness for the 50 assigned examples. If I can learn it in 5-10 examples, why am I going to waste time on another 40 non-interesting problems?

mjevans 8y ago
The teacher doesn't have or doesn't know about pass/fail module scoring. A given sub-topic should be setup like this: * 90% of the points for the module possible if you get 100% on the test. * 60% of the points for the module possible as correctly doing the homework. * Allow for re-submission of the homework (with work shown) for up to a week AFTER the test //results//. The idea is to actually teach the subject, not to pass an arbitrary test on that subject. If you bomb the test, do all of the possible problem questions and recover most or all of the grade.

quadrangle 8y ago

I actually had an 8th grade teacher do a special conference with my parents after I complained strongly enough about the nonsense of homework, and she was gracious enough to give me an exception that I could be graded on tests alone. Other kids liked that homework points boosted their grades from mediocre test scores. But I aced all the tests and thus didn't have to do any homework. That was a strange one-time case though.