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Originally Posted by dunlop

Teacher's grade and make homework mandatory because students would not do the homework likewise. If a teacher told his/her class that you should do the problems for section 1-1, but did not have to, most of the students would not do it. If it wasn't graded, you would have students half-assing the assignment and not learning any of the material. It's a way of making students actually read the material, and tryand learn it for themselves. It might not be the best way, but it certainly isn't "retarded".

Which is why it should be optional; students who need homework in order to understand material need to learn to do it themselves. If they're forced to do homework, then when they get into the real world and actually have to do some work on their own they will avoid it at all costs.

Originally Posted by stretchypanda

First of all, your goddamn parents want a goddamn number value on how well you're doing. Just like everyone else's parents.

Which is fucking totalitarian as shit.

Originally Posted by stretchypanda

Second, homework is an effective tool in measuring understanding.

Tests and quizzes are a thousand times more effective, and actually show whether the student understands the information in hir mind rather than getting the information in the text book or on the internet.

Originally Posted by stretchypanda

Just because you get it and you're bored in class doesn't mean everyone else does and is. Teachers should and are being taught to vary instruction as well as assessment for the multitude of students who learn at very different lessons, but it takes time to implement, and it is incredibly difficult to fit each instructional level into a fify-minute class period.

Which is a very good demonstration of how retarded the school system is. Students can not be effectively mass-taught. Everybody's unique. People learn far, far better by living life and studying as they see fit. In that case, people actually enjoy learning as well. If people were not forced to "get an education," many, many more people would be legitimately interested in it. You could argue that, "OH NO THEN A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD NEVER LEARN THE ESSENSIALS," to which I would retort, "great, those types of people always end up taking out your garbage and flipping your burgers anyway so it doesn't matter."

Originally Posted by stretchypanda

Trust me, I hate homework. Kids hate doing it and I hate grading it, but it certainly tells me much more about my students that just who could look in the chapter and find the answer.

Nearly all teachers I've ever encountered grade only for completion.
Also, that's all homework is. Look in the chapter and find the answer, and often spend a good portion of your free time doing it.


As if mandatory 6 hours of exactly half of the days of 12 of the first 18 years of your life wasn't enough.