By law in my state, property taxes are kept low. About 50% of the tax collected goes to schools. Our district also gets some funds from a local property tax that was passed last year.
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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
Yes, mine used to pull the same nonsense in early elementary. She HATED home work with a burning passion. However, the fact that it took her 3 hours of whining and moaning still did not mean that I sat there holding her hand all that time. She was perfectly capable of doing the work, so I expected her to get with the program. One of my standard ploys in those days was to tell her that she did not have to do it. Only, she would of course have to explain to her teacher why she had not done it. Then she would get a lecture about how hard her teacher worked and how disrespectful it would be not to do her part, even if the home work was silly and stupid. That usually settled it, for a day or two anyway.
>> I have met many teachers who were not confident in their math skills and countless others who were not really clear on basic grammar rules. IMHO, part of the reason for that is that too little time in college is spent on the what and too much on the how. But that is a whole other discussion. <<
I learned all of my math and grammar before I went to college.
Teachers who are less than confident in their own skills could review the curriculum before teaching it....
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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
I want my kids to do all their lessons for the learning aspect. It's about more than taking responsibility for one's work - there's a substantive knowledge transfer aspect of homework as well.
I use that ploy too! I also use the 'then have fun your second time around in fourth grade next year while all your friends are in fifth" that seems to work.
Yes, I agree. I did not care what grades dd got in elementary school. I cared that she learn, either something academic or else how to work, how to be a student, how to take responsibility etc.
Why on earth not? It is not so long ago that they were structured like that. Did your mother sit with you for hours every afternoon doing home work? She may have, of course, but at least in my childhood that was not common at all.
The level of parental involvement described by some here (sitting with kids doing home work, correcting home work, going over basic concepts etc) is to me an indication of a school system in crisis.
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By law in my state, property taxes are kept low. About 50% of the tax collected goes to schools. Our district also gets some funds from a local property tax that was passed last year.
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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
>> I have met many teachers who were not confident in their math skills and countless others who were not really clear on basic grammar rules. IMHO, part of the reason for that is that too little time in college is spent on the what and too much on the how. But that is a whole other discussion. <<
I learned all of my math and grammar before I went to college.
Teachers who are less than confident in their own skills could review the curriculum before teaching it....
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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
Why on earth not? It is not so long ago that they were structured like that. Did your mother sit with you for hours every afternoon doing home work? She may have, of course, but at least in my childhood that was not common at all.
The level of parental involvement described by some here (sitting with kids doing home work, correcting home work, going over basic concepts etc) is to me an indication of a school system in crisis.
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