Word: homework
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Children must be taught at a young age how to manage large amounts of homework. Hard work is what made Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison what they were. Edison coined the saying "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." I myself, a high school student, must strive for good grades and often spend evenings doing projects and writing reports. Yet when I'm done, I feel good about myself. People who work hard can do great things. ANNA COLMES San Jose, Calif...
Whatever good that might be accomplished by giving large amounts of homework is undermined by the devastating toll it takes on students' attitudes toward learning. It causes resentment, distaste, guilt, fatigue, disinterest and apathy toward all things academic. I'm afraid the long-term effect on students' morale and joy of learning may do more harm than good. ROBERT W. FISHER Cleveland, Tenn...
...able to relate to your story about too much homework! Both of my children are in elementary school, and every school day from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. they are busy doing homework. Television viewing does not fit into our schedule at all. But I felt a little less overwhelmed after reading your report that this is going on all over the country. NANCY POOLE Wolcott, Conn...
...have three kids, ages 9, 8 and 5, and all of them--even the one in kindergarten--have homework. The excessive amounts that I have to oversee kill creative thinking and foster a real dislike of learning. The grownups who think homework is good for kids are the same ones who think lima beans and Brussels sprouts are great. It breaks my heart that dinner at my house is usually macaroni and cheese and a pall of gloom. LAUREN ARNOLD Mountain View, Calif...
Teachers have it made. They get to send students to detention, assign homework and give tests. They can issue commands like "compare and contrast" and watch their charges squirm. There is but one drawback to wielding such power: the daunting task of grading essays. For every student who pulls an all-nighter wading through Great Expectations, there is a teacher who has to slog through dozens of tortured expositions on the symbolism of Miss Havisham's aborted wedding feast...