No Homework? An unscientific survery
Today one of my kids were mad at me because they could not go outside to play like the other kids. There were about twenty kids playing and having a good time about the same time that my kids were doing their homework. When the usual knock on the door came for my kids to come out and play I answered the door and asked the kids why they weren’t doing their homework.
Well guess what? They did not have any homework. So I inquired what school they attended and almost all of them go to Douglas Elementary down the street. Two of the kids went to Downtown Charter but they did their homework as soon as they got home so they came out to play much later. My very unscientific survey went further. I asked if they ever get any homework and only a few said that they will get a homework sheet once or twice a week. A homework sheet? I think they meant a sheet of paper with a homework assignment on it. My kid tells me that her friends from Downtown Charter school never get to come out because they get alot of homework during the week.
So what am I getting at here? Well these neighborhood kids are getting short changed and I am willing to bet it is reflected on their FCAT scores. I was always disgusted with the entire FCAT protests and I wondered if those that are against it would be willing to give the same child a break when it came time for them to take their exam to become a registered nurse or an airline pilot. There is a reason for standardized testing and it does not have to do with racism. If anything, the coddling of children is to prevent them from realizing their true potential and that is an overt form of racism. When I write this I think of all those kids running around in the courtyard oblivious to the fact that their teachers at Douglas Elementary do not believe that they have capacity to learn.
I am no expert and my simple courtyard survey can’t paint a picture of the entire problem. However, twenty parents should be raising hell at Douglas Elementary School for an explaination..
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