Thank God I'm long out of school

[ratewhore]

Article about banning homework for primary age kids (which I'm all for).

Its guidelines for schools in England say children should be doing homework from the day they start school, rising from one hour a week at five, to 90 to 150 minutes a day at 16.

150 minutes a day!! They'll never fit that in what with all the drink and drugs they're doing these days...

[HRH]

Article about banning homework for primary age kids (which I'm all for).



150 minutes a day!! They'll never fit that in what with all the drink and drugs they're doing these days...

Its an outrage, what happened to kids being kids?

[NoddY]

Its an outrage, what happened to kids being kids?

Both parents working
Mass hysteria over paedophilia
National Curriculum
Hoddie hysteria
Robotic banal 'on message' homework

..all to create distance between adults and children to allow the State to take over the full role of parent.

[Moscow Mule]

Homework for primary kids is more for parents to take some f'in interest in their kids education than anything else.

Parents who expect schools to take full responsibility for a child's learning deserve to end up with McDonald's workers for offspring.

[PRC1964]

I have three Primary school aged kids and they really enjoy their homework. They do about 20 minutes a day which is more than enough.

90-150 minutes a day at 16+ is unrealistic. I would say that an hour is fine though with a bit more if there are exams/projects to be done.

[MrRobin]

Guidelines schimelines. We were told at school we should be doing an hour to two study at home every night and at weekends, I did approx that a month.

Besides, kids just go on google questions or Yahoo answers to get thier homework done these days.

[EternalOptimist]

er, whats 150 minutes in hours ? like

[Sockpuppet]

er, whats 150 minutes in hours ? like

If my client asks 2 professional days

[Turion]

2.5 hrs a day on top of ordinary school day. No wonder there is a disipline/drink/drugs/health/obsesity problem among the youth. Poor gits. Sod this govt and their poxy targets etc. What does all this 'rote' learning do anyway?

I never did any homework, left school at 16, but still got 2 science degrees (in those days Uni was a privilage and us Engineering nerds had to work hard), became Chartered Engineer, head of dept etc.... Then blew it all by going contract

[EternalOptimist]

What does all this 'rote' learning do anyway?

Well, as you 're in an IT forum, let me explain in IT terms

rote = answer immediately available in RAM or application array
non rote = answer available via a function