Vice: “Homework Is Bad, Research Confirms”
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Anything that prevents the laziest and most irresponsible among us from achieving perfect parity with our most motivated and capable is literally oppression.
There's a simple word for that: equity.
My highschool AP classes used homework as a way to ensure everyone could get an A no matter how badly they failed the test.
Not to worry! They're against AP classes and standardized tests as well:
Harrison Bergeron was written as a satire of reactionary concerns. Now, it sounds like freedom.
So my kids have to suffer mediocre education because little Jamal's parents were too busy being in prison to read to him before bed? Isn't it bad enough that he's eventually going to shoot my son and rape my daughter?
I know multiple people who failed multiple AP classes but still passed the AP exams, receiving college credit.
My friend had double physics credits for college because he passed the AP test but failed the class, so he used the test to take physics 201 at a community college for high school credit. The AP Physics teacher was a land whale bitch that didn't know physics.
I took and passed an AP exam cold when the school didn't even offer the class. Kids passing the tests and failing the classes probably says something bad about the classes (specifically the teachers)
Getting closer and closer to Idiocracy becoming reality
That's what you get when you never teach kids discipline or responsibility.
Kids these days have figured out how to skirt responsibility by combining laziness with virtue signalling. "Studying is racist!" "I'm skipping school for the environment!". No grown up dares disagree with kids anymore lest they be branded racist, climate denier or one of the other bullshit buzzwords.
When these useless little shits grow up they demand Communism because they'll never amount to anything in a productive society.
TLDR: People with richer parents also have parents that give a shit about them.
Math homework is the epitome of children applying critical thinking, well at least pre common core. This article proves the issue is not the homework but the aptitude of the shitty ass programs and teachers who are thrown money to teach propaganda not critical thinking.
They hate standardized testing, because they want qualifications to be bestowed on the basis of political orthodoxy, race and gender - not how smart you are and how much you have learned.
See I always thought homework was full of way too much busy-work myself. Sure, in some classes larger projects made sense, to teach/show you how to assemble skills together over a period of time. In others it was just do this because this class is stupidly easy and we have to at least pretend you did some work for the grade.
The article seems to talk specifically about math homework though, since that was my "favorite" subject and I ended up with a math minor in college as well I did my share of that. Well, sort of. The thing about math homework is it's supposed to help you learn and understand concepts. You know, we talked about this in class today, go home and try it, and tomorrow we will go over your questions. My thought is math homework should always be assigned but not be required or graded in any way. I got to the point by 9th grade or so that I just turned in whatever I had, didn't care if it was only 15% complete. I'd just make it up on the test. Teachers hated that but back then they weren't so entitled feeling that they'd call up parents over that stuff.
Though at times it felt like a crutch to people that didn't understand things. At the beginning of the year they'd give spiel about how if you do all the homework it won't even be graded for correctness and it's enough to keep you from failing. That's a really bad idea with math since everything builds on previous years, but most of those teachers were lazy and no good at actually teaching anyway.
What the article does not understand is that homework is designed to help you learn. If you remove it the parents will give homework to students at home. Most parents already do that, my wife does that. She give extra homework if I the teacher does not give homework or the homework is not enough. My point is that if you remove homework the gap will be bigger not smaller. At least now the underprivileged students know what they are suppose to do to learn.
Defending hw to own the libs ?
We know why you hate homework.
You wanted to have a lot of free time in school to service the gloryholes.
No, but servicing gloryholes is more noble