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<blockquote data-quote="skeeter" data-source="post: 109539" data-attributes="member: 439"><p>Kathy - I hope by my "list" of problems we've had with NL, you didn't think I was saying homework isn't important. I know it is.</p><p></p><p>What I really think our schools (and I'm generalizing here) fall short on is teaching kids how to STUDY. And, consequently, how to learn.</p><p></p><p>Neither of my kids learned how to study, they were just given assignments. Now, I will admit that most people have an ideal way to learn, and each must find that ideal way. But my kids have been assigned all the usual things - long term papers or projects, memory work, book reports, class finals, etc. For almost all of these, they were not taught the "tools" to be able to approach these in a way that made sense.</p><p></p><p>If kids aren't taught HOW to learn, we are short selling them. I read recently that most people have to "re-invent" their jobs on approximately a five year rotation. If someone doesn't know how to continue to learn, they will paint themselves into a corner sooner or later.</p><p></p><p>I guess what I'm saying is homework shouldn't JUST be about whatever subject (math, science, etc.) it's assigned in, but also in teaching a person HOW to continue to learn their whole life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skeeter, post: 109539, member: 439"] Kathy - I hope by my "list" of problems we've had with NL, you didn't think I was saying homework isn't important. I know it is. What I really think our schools (and I'm generalizing here) fall short on is teaching kids how to STUDY. And, consequently, how to learn. Neither of my kids learned how to study, they were just given assignments. Now, I will admit that most people have an ideal way to learn, and each must find that ideal way. But my kids have been assigned all the usual things - long term papers or projects, memory work, book reports, class finals, etc. For almost all of these, they were not taught the "tools" to be able to approach these in a way that made sense. If kids aren't taught HOW to learn, we are short selling them. I read recently that most people have to "re-invent" their jobs on approximately a five year rotation. If someone doesn't know how to continue to learn, they will paint themselves into a corner sooner or later. I guess what I'm saying is homework shouldn't JUST be about whatever subject (math, science, etc.) it's assigned in, but also in teaching a person HOW to continue to learn their whole life. [/QUOTE]
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