Word: homeworkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MUCH HOMEWORK...
...first I thought the cover story on the amount of homework youngsters have was a joke [EDUCATION, Jan. 25], but I realized it was sad but true. Many private and parochial schools assign three hours of homework a night. Now I see that some public school students are whining about three hours of homework a week! How do they ever hope to compete for entrance to colleges and universities? Let's quit dumbing down America and face the reality that one has to work, and work hard, to achieve the things that are truly meaningful. GWEN GANGER Los Angeles...
...husband and I have noted how different our children's afterschool time is from ours. In the good old days, when it was either watch another I Love Lucy rerun or do your homework, studying didn't look so bad. Today the competition for my children's attention is almost unending. With choices ranging from sports and music lessons to computers and, yes, the ever present I Love Lucy reruns, my children would disappoint me if they were eager to do their homework every day. But by keeping it all in perspective, I am optimistic that we shall make...
...average of 19 minutes a day spent on homework too much for grade-school children? Compared to what? The amount of time they spend in front of the TV or playing video games? DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT Roseville, Minn...
...they survive in New Haven, where students have to take a fifth course during half their terms? Is feeling that one need not study on Friday nights a basic right of students that the institution should strive to maintain? Should the Dean of the Faculty perhaps impose a no-homework-on-weekends policy, as happens in grade school...