Homework!Homework!Homework!
Nov. 14th, 2012 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyYesterday the girls had their first 4-H cooking meeting. There was no actual cooking this time; it was more of a discussion of preferences, interests, canning, and then it spun off into chickens, geese and fair.
At one point the leader mentioned how she understood the needs of the kids to not have too much of their homework time used up by the cooking meetings. What followed were moans and groans and a chorus of "I have so much homework". One boy put his face in his hands and told us how his math teacher gives them homework every single day, even weekends.
H watched on, fascinated. She told me it was just like the Tim Griffin filksong about homework (she was right - you can listen for free; follow the link, then scroll down to Homework!Homework!Homework!).
What struck me the most was how this was such a real life example of one of the drawbacks of traditional schooling. It was nice for the girls to see this, and not just have it be a story about school that I've told them.
At one point the leader mentioned how she understood the needs of the kids to not have too much of their homework time used up by the cooking meetings. What followed were moans and groans and a chorus of "I have so much homework". One boy put his face in his hands and told us how his math teacher gives them homework every single day, even weekends.
H watched on, fascinated. She told me it was just like the Tim Griffin filksong about homework (she was right - you can listen for free; follow the link, then scroll down to Homework!Homework!Homework!).
What struck me the most was how this was such a real life example of one of the drawbacks of traditional schooling. It was nice for the girls to see this, and not just have it be a story about school that I've told them.
