Nutty in Norway
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Proving once again that Lefties never run out of retarded ideas. There's a better chance I'll run out of sarcasm.
Oslo's new left-wing city council plans to trial abolishing homework for tens of thousands of students on the grounds that the practice "reinforces social inequalities".
Proving once again that Lefties never run out of retarded ideas. There's a better chance I'll run out of sarcasm.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 12:52
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For entirely different reasons I think banning homework makes sense. First, my view when I was in public school was, they take up most of my day with this garbage and then want me to go home and spend another 1 to 3 hours doing homework. I generally chose to take marginal grades and go enjoy sports and being outdoors with friends then doing the homework. I wouldn't trade my time in youth doing those things for all the A's in the world. Of course in college, which at least is a voluntary thing, I had to learn to study and be more dedicated, and how about that, I was still reasonably successful in life. Only later in life did I gain a greater appreciation for history, physics, philosophy, etc... Learning is life long and much easier if the interest comes naturally. How much of public school is now more about indoctrination than about learning useful information. I wanted my kids to go to public school to see and get used to the real world, but that was a mistake as they were highly indoctrinated. All the world seeks to own the mind of the next generation. I was fortunate since I suffer from anti-authority syndrome, so I've never met a man or God that I wanted to follow.
My homework, when I bothered with it at all, was done in the 30 minutes before school and the three minutes before class started. I'm middle aged and will never be in a school again, (for which I'm thankful). So I couldn't give half a fig leaf if homework ceases to exist. What irritates me about this matter is the "social inequality" angle through which the leftist government is justifying their actions.
The "progressives" discovered in the 1970s that rather than attracting bright people with their own opinions to educational professions, they could instead put well-programmed drones in the classrooms and then pull their strings in order to make them dance to whatever might be the political tune du jour. Giving homework (or not) is a decision that used to be up to individual teachers, as were the details of their curriculum and their particular teaching style. Those days, as you're well aware, are long past.
This is just one more political game from the statists who are eternally trying to seize control of Western civilization. Ah, well... As Margaret Thatcher used to say, the ratchet only tightens to the Left. The best we can do is slip it to the Right from time to time.
The problem is that the real reason for homework has been lost. The original purpose was to help reinforce the lesson of that day. Just a little bit to help the student insure they have retained the information passed along in the classroom. Most of it today is busy work. Since most classes are taught to the lowest common denominator, students with half a brain are bored and see homework as something that takes up 2-3 hours of their evening.
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