I know this sounds like a joke, but homework is lowkey child torture, especially in households where parents aren’t great at teaching.
And if “homework isn’t that much work, idiot” then they should just do that in school, like all the other learning. Slap another hour onto school, and everyone would be happier.
@Riedler Throwing in my two cents: for a brief period, I was in a school that had no homework, as long as you got your work done during school hours (which was trivial). No lectures, just a list of stuff to do, a pile of books, and a teacher who would explain anything you got stuck on, one-on-one.
Virtually nobody ever had any homework (in fact people usually had time left!), the hours were not any different from other schools, and even the test scores were extremely high.
In short, you don't even need the extra hour. You just need a sensible schedule for the day.
@joepie91 boy do I envy that experience
@Riedler It was fantastic honestly, the only school I actually enjoyed going to. They got a lot of other stuff right, too, it was so much more empathy-driven than most schools.
And it pisses me off that it's now 15 years later and this still isn't how it works everywhere.
@joepie91 hear hear! I have the same experience at a Jenaplan school. The teachers knew their students and knew what their strengths and their pace were. They assigned work accordingly. And there was great freedom in planning, and the teachers were always available for instruction and questions.
There was also plenty of time left for reading comics or chatting on the classroom sofa, playing music, rehearsing dances, tinkering, board games and taking care of or playing with the classroom pet (ours was a grey rabbit called Charles)
And never ever did we have homework. Maybe some research for a project.
@Riedler