marimorimo
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I've been hearing about how kids worldwide are overburdened with homework ever since I was a kid myself. In middle school I read about Chinese first graders at an elite school having to do homework until 11 pm to keep up, WTF. The thing is, I could never relate because I've never been overwhelmed by homework my entire school life. Maybe it's the schools I went to, but homework was such an irregular thing that I would often (90% of the time) forget that we had homework in the first place and would scramble doing it during break time or even the 5-10 minutes in between classes. Most of the time the homework was only a page or less anyway and easily done if you read the book and half paid attention in class.
We did have to do projects/reports that took a week to complete and I lost some sleep over but it wasn't that frequent. There was time for that during the weekend anyway. I loved doing those because I always made the most visually pleasing reports and dioramas.
In college I had a liberal arts degree and it wasn't that different. The most time I'd spend on homework was 1.5-2 hours a week to write an essay in a foreign language.
BTW, I'm from the Philippines. And looking back, maybe I should have been doing more homework for the fields I'm weak in (math, chemistry, physics). However, if the homework is so tough that it takes hours to finish, doesn't that mean that the student didn't learn the subject matter in class and is lacking the skills required to complete it efficiently in the first place?
What was your experience with homework in school?
We did have to do projects/reports that took a week to complete and I lost some sleep over but it wasn't that frequent. There was time for that during the weekend anyway. I loved doing those because I always made the most visually pleasing reports and dioramas.
In college I had a liberal arts degree and it wasn't that different. The most time I'd spend on homework was 1.5-2 hours a week to write an essay in a foreign language.
BTW, I'm from the Philippines. And looking back, maybe I should have been doing more homework for the fields I'm weak in (math, chemistry, physics). However, if the homework is so tough that it takes hours to finish, doesn't that mean that the student didn't learn the subject matter in class and is lacking the skills required to complete it efficiently in the first place?
What was your experience with homework in school?