I HATE Homework - I really can't see the point of it

[Katymac]

I makes us argue

I think the work she does is crap

I think she spends too long on it

It doesn't benefit either of us, I shout and she crys

I cannot see any positives it has at all

I sympathise

discuss with her teacher then.
surely there can be a compromise here.

ive got this to come, mine has just started school.
wish me luck.

At parents evening I was asked to make sure it was done and that time was taken over it

Well, dispute it.
arrange a meeting and dispute it.

what wil happen?

its an important issue. av a word..

Agree wholheartedly.
So much of what they are given relies on parents teaching them what is necessary to complete it. dd2 had some ridiculously difficult and ambiguous history questions to answer last week about Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour (she's in year 4.) None of the questions could be answered by looking at the kids history websites so I ended up trawling through adult ones to give her the answers.

I am all for parents spending time with their children but it really is getting ridiculous. I think they get far too much. Teacher always tells them not to spend more than 20 mins on any one home work but children who don't do it are kept in at playtime to finish it.
This week she has had
spellings with sentences (35 mins)
History research- (1 hour)
Maths game to make (2 and a half hours and it's still not finished.)
Daily reading- (total of 45 mins)
Times tables to learn (total of 30 mins)
This is more than dd1 who is in year 7!

As a parent, I HATE it. As a teacher.... I also hate it! Someone start a petition to someone in authority to get it banned. I don't remember even owning a book bag before secondary school and yet I managed to get a few O' and A' levels - and a degree.

we were told that no more than 15 mins was to be spent on homework in junior school.

teachers have a skill - this skill is teaching - if we all could teach - it really wouldnt be a skill now would it - i think this is forgotten.

it is utter wankage

I had another thread earlier. So much of the hoemwroks for "subjects" have been draw this or make a poster for that, which in a child who struggles to plan spatially , spell and draw is completely self defeating. Plan to raise it at parents' evening when I fully expect to be told his presentation and handwriting lets him down.

we've only just started homework in Year 5. just a few spellings before then. I must say she is much more diligent and good about doing it than I ever was, I don't really supervise or anything, just provide advice if asked. But it is still 45 mins on top of a long school day and I'm really not convinced it is necessary.

If I was you I'd confine your involvement to telling her to do it, and checking that she is doing it half way through the allotted time, and providing any input she asks for. I don't think you should stand over her with a stick - doesn't do you any good and is probably counterproductive in the long run. And you can tell school that if they ask you!

Custado- I AM a teacher but the difference is I am paid when I am at work. The purpose of homework is to reinforce work done in class not teach them new stuff!

I am becoming a bit passive-aggressive about DS's homework - he's not even 5 yet ffs. I tend to just leave it in the bag untouched.

Out of 48 sums she got about 10 right - how sad

She knows the answer she just can't be bothered - which makes me sad

48 sums wtf ?

It's only telling the time
in words
In 12 hr (am or pm)
9 min earlier
6 min later

Gosh yes I agree

Not until secondary school please

I can see the point of homework tbh, in that it reinforces what they have done at school and without a teacher's supervision, ie, they have to think for themselves.

But then again my dd is in Yr2 and homework = approx half an hour per week.

I've never understood the 3 hours every night for secondary school aged children.

We have the same arguement every weekend and the whole family suffers. I know its the same for other parents in other schools.

And the projects!!!!!!!! Dont get me started! Feckin Nilgiri Hills!

This teacher isnt so bad to be fair, but when the teacher is watching a bloody video in lesson time and getting me to teach my 8 year old about pronouns and adverbs, thats taking the piss.

This weeks homework is about dragons, so its not so bad. But my son often lies and says he does not have homework or that he has already completed it.

I also hate the Alpha Mums that do the homework for their kids...that really irks me...

I don't do it

I just shout at DD & get frustrated

Do your homework; stop staring into the distance; don't kick your legs just do it

It's monotonous

We have this and there's a lot of shouting and crying in this house too at times.

I remember one of the most exciting things about moving up to secondary school was the prospect of homework. Sad I know, but it was new and made me feel grown up ( to begin with).

By the time our DC's get to seniors they'll be sick to death of it.

"Do your work; stop staring into the distance; don't kick your legs just do it" ..... Times that by 30, Katymac and you see what we teachers are up against! And what is this obsession with drumming (on the desk)and tap-dancing (against other kids' feet)kids have got today?

I actually enjoy helping dd1 with her homework and think she would benifit from more.
she only takes about five mintues to do her maths and then 5 or ten depending on the day to do her writing and then she has reading with is only 5 mins too. she always wants to read more of the book but wont cause the teacher hasn't told her too.
lol
I would think that she needs more 'revision' time than that on what she has leanrt at school

Actually, despite what I said earlier about hating homework, I ought to say that, if nothing else, get your dcs to LEARN THEIR TABLES!!!! At random, recall within 5 seconds with no fingers, and preferably related division facts too. Forget "design and make a scaled model of a fire engine, as would have been used in the Fire of London" (Year 2, as well!!!! Thanks!). Stick to the basics.