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Schools Banning Homework?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the also-thinking-is-hard dept.

theodp writes "Alarmed by indicators of student stress like cheating and substance abuse, some SF Bay Area schools are reducing an education staple: homework. Homework is mostly banned at Menlo Park's Oak Knoll School, but some teachers apparently have higher 'expections' [sic]."

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  1. Didn't work when I was in school by not+already+in+use · · Score: 5, Funny

    How come the ol' "My homework is driving me to smoke pot" trick didn't work when I was in school?

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    1. Re:Didn't work when I was in school by enharmonix · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think there's some kind of sub-motive here: to completely destroy the 'my dog at my homework' line. No homework == no doggie snack. Ahah! Animal cruelty, then! We've got 'em! Somebody call PETA!

      Now, I wouldn't ordinarily expect this sort of tactic to work, but this is San Francisco we're talking about...
  2. Helicopter Parents by Brahmastra · · Score: 5, Funny

    These helicopter parents whining about homework need to take their kids and shove them up their ass. It looks like they never wanted to release their kids anyway....

  3. The wrong solution by digitalderbs · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is silly. Homework is an important requirement in learning. The clear solution is 30 mg of Prozac a day. This has the added bonus of promoting abstinence. Win-Win.

  4. Re:higher expectations? by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 4, Funny

    Teacher, teacher can I have a special project so I don't have to come back to school until it's done?

    Sure brat, just make sure you don't write anything that takes me more than 15 seconds to correct.

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  5. Re:Ballpark estimate: 15 minutes by Jesus_666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given how some people are when they finish school it's probably more like 15 sentences.

    Or 15 minutes, whichever comes first.

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  6. Re:No Child Left Behind by Jesus_666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe it isnt "homework" but the straight from school to the factory education model we use to teach children today.

    Let's first try criticizing something that doesn't give us as many cheap laborers. I mean, you're threatening someone's bottom line there, you communist.


    Note for the humor-impaired: The above post was satire pointed at the legal system being systematically fucked over to increase corporate profits.

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  7. Re:Expections by enharmonix · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd be pulling my child out of that school with their "expections," not only due to their poor grammar, but also for their militant view on homework. Or maybe things have just changed a lot since I was in grade school. They have. We call it "spelling" now. :P

    Cheers.
  8. Re:Expections? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe the teacher was trying to spell "expectorations", as it is important to know how to spit properly.

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  9. Homework by Rorian · · Score: 3, Funny

    I no did homework four school and me smart today

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  10. Re:or perhaps... by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thems fightin' words! Now, if you had mentioned Digg, I'd have agreed. Digg is populated by the very kids who aren't doing homework, don't want to, and wouldn't recognize a brain cell if it bit them. At least on Slashdot, even the morons can tell a packet from a rectum. Er, I hope. Otherwise, there're going to be some interesting network connections.

  11. Re:higher expectations? by KDR_11k · · Score: 3, Funny

    The standard unit for that is Libraries of Congress.

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  12. damn by SQLz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its hard enought to get a good raid party going in World of Warcraft without eliminating a huge portion of the player base due to homework.