The Homework Debate - 3 views
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Zachary G on 26 Mar 10Goes into "good" hw and "bad" hw. can be turned into harms for both sides
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As a result, he says, "[children] are bored because the things they are given and told to do in school are so trivial, so dull, and make such limited and narrow demands on the wide spectrum of their intelligence, capabilities and talents."
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Homework or no homework, parents will always have an important role to play in nurturing a child's love of learning. In fact, it may be that positive family relationships have much more to do with a child's educational success than any other consideration worthy of debate.
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Some innovative schools have begun to work at eliminating the kind of monotonous busy-work that kills a child's incentive to learn and keeps them from their families for extended periods in the evenings.
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Homework proponents insist that some subjects cannot be mastered without repetitive rote memorization. Even homework critics allow for the fact that well thought-out assignments can certainly contribute to a child's love of learning, especially when it requires the full engagement of an inquiring mind.
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