<p>I never had much homework in school prior to HS. Mostly just reading and a few science projects. HS was just practicing the math we learned in class (we were never expected to not know how to do the work) and again reading. Other than that I spent my time studying (no busy work to turn in). I went to one of those horrible failing public schools were teachers “fake” teaching and just send the work home for parents to assist with! Haha, not many of my friends parents could help them with math beyond Algebra 1 or an AP class. But this is CC where the parents aren’t average.</p>
<p>We need to eliminate busy work that serves no purpose in our education. Most everyone completes busy work mindlessly without thinking about it, and it just takes time away from doing more important homework or pursuing independent study.</p>
<p>Educating a child is the responsibility of parents. Governments, schools and teachers are only tools, albeit powerful ones. It is none of governments business what parents and kids do with books and calculators in their home. Families are free to read and calculate all they want. Any law to the contrary will have no valid authority.</p>
<p>Glido, I do not understand the relevance of your comment. There are no laws as far as I know against tiger mums.</p>
<p>Hollande’s suggestion brings to mind an anecdote about Apple co-Founder Steve Wozniak’s meeting with the late President Francois Mitterand in France.</p>
<p>It was a business/trade event and Mitterand took the opportunity to ask Wozniak how the French could begin to produce great software. Wozniak allegedly replied…‘the problem is, software from France is written in French!’</p>
<p>Lost in trans - the president if France is proposing a law to ban homework because he thinks it is unfair that some children have parents who work with their children on academics at home.</p>
<p>so I’m guessing students would spend more time in school to make up for the lack of homework?</p>
<p>I don’t know how I feel about this… personally, I’m more of an independent learner. no matter how “fair” you try to make the system, there will always be some students at an advantage/disadvantage unless everyone gets their own personal expert tutors</p>
<p>Honestly I think homework is a necessary evil after a certain grade level. Once you start taking some higher-level classes, the teacher only teaches 50-70% of the material, and the rest is taught at home and resumed the next day, simply because there is too much material for a day to fit in a 50~ minute lesson.</p>
<p>I’m of the opinion that homework is overused and ineffectively applied in schools, but a flat-out homework ban is not a good way about it. Especially not for math…</p>