Schools ban homework for lucky students in Florida - Metro.
This past July, a superintendent in Marion County, Florida, announced that she was banning homework for all 20,000 elementary school students in her district and instead instructing kids to read.
In the fifth and sixth grades the recommendation is for about 45 minutes homework compared with “not more than an hour” in the earlier statement.
The average U.S. high school already pushes that limit by offering 3.5 hours of extra assignments per week. List of the Disadvantages of Why Homework Should Be Banned 1. Teachers can see if students understand the materials being taught. Homework allows a teacher to determine if a student has a grasp on the materials being taught in the classroom.
As other schools across the country are adopting similar no-homework policies, not all parents are enthused. The New York Times reported that when a school in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood banned mandatory traditional homework assignments for kids up to fourth grade, a “war broke out” among the parents. Some critics of the new policy called it “economically and racially insensitive.
The Pros of Homework. Numerous studies have shown that homework that is assigned, marked, and handed back (such as a worksheet on long division) is effective in increasing knowledge of a subject.
In Marion County, Florida, the superintendent of schools, Heidi Maier, made the decision to ban homework for elementary-age children, citing a lack of research about any benefits. Instead, Maier focused on having students read for a certain period of time outside of school.
Elementary school students in one Florida county won’t have to worry about homework anymore--at least not every night.A Marion County Public Schools spokesman announced on Wednesday that a.