Should Teachers Decrease the Amount of Homework Given.
Teachers may not have as high expectations for lower-income children. Schools should bear responsibility for providing supports for kids to be able to get their homework done—after-school clubs, community support, peer group support. It does kids a disservice when our expectations are lower for them. The conversation around homework is to some extent a social class and social justice issue.
Rather than seeing homework as a “solution,” policymakers should question what facets of their educational system might impel students, teachers and parents to increase homework loads. At the classroom level, in setting homework, teachers need to communicate with their peers and with parents to assure that the homework assigned overall for a grade is not burdensome, and that it is indeed.
A study by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation found that 96.5% of students across the country said they needed to use the internet for class assignments outside of school, and nearly half reported there had been times they were unable to complete their homework due to lack of access to the internet or a computer, sometimes resulting in lower grades.
It depends on the school, the grade and the assignment. If there are unusual circumstances and the policy isn’t abused, then yes, late assignments should be allowed.
Primary teachers have been warned against setting too much homework, as it can create inequalities in the classroom, TES is reporting.The warning comes from Louis Volante, professor of education at Brock University in Canada, who says not all students will have the same resources at home.He said having flexible and adaptable lessons as well as making the most of “teachable moments.
Homework should be a positive experience and act as reinforcement or an extension to a topic area already covered in school that day. It should be achievable for your child without too much input from parents. It will be marked and returned to the child quickly and will be positive in its feedback.
Kids in lower grades don't need homeworks in which they mug up the mathematical tables and nouns and pronouns. They need to observe. They need to learn and question. They should be given the kinds of homework where they observe certain things abou.