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When I was in school in Ontario, about 30 years ago, homework was for practice. It was evaluated usually, but not a major part of the final grade; grades for h
by retrac 4y ago
When I was in school in Ontario, about 30 years ago, homework was for practice. It was evaluated usually, but not a major part of the final grade; grades for homework were mostly for simply (trying to) complete it. Some students will get their parents or friends to proofread it. Some don't have parents who can read. Some students will cheat; there's software out there that'll make doing homework easier than it should be. (Very guilty of that one myself even back then.)
We were expected to write essays in class, during class time. Most of our grades were based on that. In my later years of high school, my teachers stopped even checking my homework for math etc, unless I wanted them to. Grades for my final year courses were almost entirely from in-class exams and projects. From what I've heard it's still similar here, even with remote schooling. (Though that certainly creates its own issues!) Is it different elsewhere?
- skeaker 4y agoIt is different elsewhere, yes. Your school was unfortunately a rare exception. Most schools everywhere I've been mandate homework and give it significant value towards your final grade. If you have multiple classes (which you do), they will often have no regard for each other when assigning homework, so you are often left with no time to meaningfully absorb any of the assignments (and occasionally no time to possibly so much as complete all of them). Self guided schooling like yours is unfortunately still viewed as a new wave hippy-esque thing.
- annyeonghada 4y ago>new wave hippy-esque thing Strange because I'm from [country in EU]: homework generally have no bearing on the final grade and considering homework it's considered permissive and hippy-esque: they can cheat, copy, make the parents/siblings do it, ask the Internet to do it and so on. The actual, rigorous evaluation happens in class and only in class, homework assigned so you can prepare for the actual test.
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- joenot443 4y agoI can agree, we did this all throughout high school in Ontario. Producing an essay in your class period was something they taught you how to do. What you'd hand in was messy and rushed, but it still had references, a thesis, and 5 (short) paragraphs. I don't see why today's youth couldn't eventually do the same, especially if they're given an (offline, or firewalled) Chromebook to type on.
- scarface74 4y agoI went to a magnet middle school - a public selective school with more strict requirements - that homework either got a 0, 50 or 100. If you did all of the work you got 100 whether it was right or not. If you didn’t do all the work you got a 50. If you did nothing you got 0.