That probably won’t happen… the teachers use the other two-three hours of the day grading papers. Although I imagine they could expand and give teachers more ‘off periods’ to accommodate this, I don’t see it happening anytime soon.
Never. Teachers already work from about 7:30-4:30 or 5. If you expanded the school day to 8-5, they’d end up having to stay until 6 or 7. That would require pay raises, and we all know that will never happen. By the way, that’s the same reason that the school year will never expand to 12 straight months, like a work year.
There is actually a push to change the school day to 9-30 or 10 until 5, which would be a good idea, I think.
Too much homework is just wrong. It’s no wonder people can’t find any time to be a family any more…no eating dinner together, going for walks, TALKING, reading the paper, reading anything just for enjoyment, etc. Not to mention, there are other things to learn (art, music, dance) which take practice. There’s no time. School already takes up the whole day in my opinion and then they have the gall to try to take up our whole evening too. It’s just too invasive on family time. I explained this to one parent who said, “well, some families don’t spend their time doing constructive things like they should”…I couldn’t believe it - so that’s my problem how? So we should all be punished? The bottom line is that a little creative homework is fine if it’s truly meaningful and not just practice or worksheets, but too often teachers miss the point, assign meaningless busywork, and assign too much (several hours is way too much)…
Um, could you provide a cite for this? For some reason I can’t imagine a 30 year old being forced to go to high school against his will.
Well, wouldn’t it depend on how old the students are? I remember my parents being angry because in fourth grade I would be up late trying to finish mountains of homework.
Funny, I didn’t get that much home work in college, so much as I had reading to do, which was pretty easy for me.
And when I was in high school-I graduated in '96-we were required to have a study hall at least once a week. For make up tests or anything like that. I spent the entire time in the library.
ok so i exaggerated a little bit…my point was that we as kids have NO LIFE. our days are filled with school. our nights are filled with homework. our weekends and filled homework again. and in between all of that, some annoying little kids keep gossiping about you. teachers must be absolutely insane to make us all go through with this.
… complain about 2 hours of homework? Jesus, I’d kill to be back in high school with only 2 hours of “homework.” That is why freshmen at university are so funny. There isn’t “homework”… there is just a lot of (in lib arts, anyway) reading and preparing… then the writing, oh god the writing… and heaven forbid you think about something like engineering. I’ve seen people turn into calculators by their senior year in engineering. Either way, 2 hours a day is nothing.
Extending school hours from 8-5… haha. There is currently a teacher shortage… want to turn that into a crisis?
And as for not having a life… the thing I learned most from university is that life is whatever the hell you’re doing. I spent more time studying than doing anything else in college, but there was a lifestyle built around that. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. In many ways, life was all about how much you could do in the times you weren’t studying, and quite often what you could do WHILE you were studying. 