Many original parents complained about homework, the school introduced a burden-reduction policy, some families cheered, some raised vigilance

Text|Cheats Jun

Parents, how old is your child? Have you ever had a headache for your child’s homework?

There is a neighbor upstairs in my house. The mother and the child have been in harmony before the child went to elementary school, and they have been peaceful for years. But when the child enters elementary school, he will hear humming and crying from the upper floor from time to time in the evening. Talking to the neighbor, she always said that it was because of the child’s homework.

Sure enough, when my baby went to elementary school, I also encountered the same situation as my neighbor, worrying about the child’s homework every day. If you enroll your child for extracurricular classes after school in the afternoon, and wait to go home in the evening, the homework should basically be written until 9 to 10 o’clock.

Fortunately, the school we go to is a public elementary school. After a semester is not finished, some parents complained that there was too much homework and that the child went to bed too late after finishing his homework. So the class held a parent meeting, and the teacher came up with such a countermeasure at the meeting: if the parents feel that the teacher assigns too much homework, they don’t have to finish writing it, just sleep at some point. The teacher will not criticize the children who have not finished their homework the next day. Everything depends on self-consciousness.

This time the parent group exploded. Some parents applauded this, saying that this is not equivalent to reducing the burden on their children? What a good thing. Other parents put on a “vigilant” expression, which is intriguing.

On the surface, the school’s introduction of such a policy is indeed reducing the burden on students. But whether such a policy is a disadvantage or a benefit to parents is not necessarily true.

The burden of homework is reduced, and the impact on the family is polarized

A parent who is the principal of a high school told me that such a burden reduction policy actually makes poor students worse and good students better. I deeply agree.

Some parents who can’t finish their homework think that if they don’t emphasize that the homework must be completed, the child will not have so much pressure to study, and the student’s life will be easier. This is a good thing. In fact, whether this matter is good or bad depends on the parents.

If the parents themselves have no time and no intention to exert effort in family education, their daily duty is to supervise the children to complete the homework, then this homework burden reduction policy may seem beneficial to them, but it actually affects the children’s follow-up learning.

The homework is a reflection of the mastery of the learning content of the day. Some students procrastinated because they had difficulty doing homework, originally because they didn’t have a firm grasp of the content. If there is no pressure of “the teacher will check tomorrow”, they will probably not do it altogether. Coupled with parental neglect, It is possible that more and more content that children do not know, parents will not be able to find out, which will make subsequent learning more difficult for children.

For parents who value family education, they do not have to complete the homework of the day, so that they have the right to choose the content of the homework. For repetitive homework that the child has already mastered, they can not write, so the time saved can be Used to do many things.

For example, to check the deficiencies of the child, or to strengthen the child’s ability in certain aspects, or even use it for more extensive reading, logical thinking training, and so on.

In this way, all the homework is also not completed. Some children spend the time saved by their parents for crazy fun, while some children get targeted “extra meals” and “small stoves” by their parents. , Over time, the gap between these two types of children becomes even greater.

It is precisely because of the different thinking consciousness and cognition of the two types of parents that two different reactions were caused when the school “homework load reduction” policy was issued.

At the elementary level, the gap between children actually reflects the gap between families, and is more reflected in the level of consciousness. Families that value education will not easily applaud and cheer on the various seemingly “burden reduction” actions launched by schools and society. On the contrary, they will be more vigilant and consider more carefully the long-term impact of such measures. Adjust your own chicken baby rhythm.

After all, studying at school seems to be fighting children, but it is actually fighting the parents themselves.

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