Do you think mandated homework is a viable and necessary part of a childs education?”
I do believe that homework helps a lot, but I’m not sure that specifying how many minutes of homework per a child’s grade actually make sense as each child learns differently and will need different amounts of practice to learn something. But, if that’s a way of getting kids to do homework everyday, then I guess that’s ok. Growing up, for some reason, I hardly ever asked questions in class. Supposedly I would absorb the theory (or try to), but I always felt that I would only fully understand the subject after doing my homework on my own time. I did this all through college as well and all the projects and term papers we had to hand in were my “studying time”… as I was never disciplined enough to just pick up a book and study if I didn’t have to. I know a little kid (6 years old) in school that gets homework assigned on Mondays then she has the whole week to complete the homework (in various topics). I’m not sure I like that idea, as she tends to try to get all the homework done in on
