@lxeagle17 This is wild, too. Someone actually believes this nonsense?!?!? Good on you for calling it out

@lxeagle17 Even a stopped clock etc etc

@lxeagle17 To be fair, homework is bullshit though.

@lxeagle17 Abolish homework imo

@lxeagle17 @mattyglesias I’m confused by all of that lol. Homework is obviously labor no? And won’t learning necessarily require work of some sort? And people work plenty under communism?? But if the real idea is that we should pay kids to go to school then maybe we should.

@lxeagle17 Homework, when done properly, is to help foster curiosity outside of the classroom. Can it be frivolous? Of course, it can. But homework in and of itself isn't bad. The lack of imagination on the left, or the urge to just toss everything out, is a problem we have to fix.

@lxeagle17 I grew up in communism and we had more homework than my daughter has in capitalism.

@lxeagle17 Kids don’t need to be spending more than 40 hours a week on school stuff before college. Maybe things have changed but I had plenty of subjects filled with busywork that didn’t teach anything and separate homework assignments. Make days shorter if homework is so important.

@lxeagle17 Public school teacher, here. Homework has been shown time and time again to have absolutely no benefit in terms of comprehension and knowledge retention/skill development. It is in fact labor, and it causes incredibly unnecessary stress.

@lxeagle17 Homework literally is labor...

@lxeagle17 @Drea_got_rage This reminds me of the unironic bedtime is fascism tweet from last year.

@lxeagle17 Homework in high school is often actually quite useful, especially at teaching writing and research skills. Before then, there's hardly any of it anyway. Anarchists are blowing this out of proportion. A bigger problem would be school schedules, which are set too early.

@lxeagle17 This person is completely right and education experts have been saying this for decades. Opening any critical pedagogical studies text will reveal this. I’m not an education studies major but every class in the field I’ve taken is fully in agreement with this.

@lxeagle17 Wait till they find out about homework in communist countries...

@lxeagle17 There is evidence to suggest that homework can be counterproductive, and can disproportionately affect kids with less stable home lives. I don't think their argument is great, and I'm not against homework on principle. I just think we should be open to newer(better) approaches.

@lxeagle17 you're using POV wrong. also they're right

@lxeagle17 Ava is right though. School has seven hours a day to teach your kid, five days a week. Kids may not be getting paid, but they are essentially working a full-time job going to school nonetheless. Homework is essentially taking your job home with you. Homework should be abolished.

@lxeagle17 7am to 3pm with a min of 2 hours of homework a day from the age of 4/5 to adulthood is child labor and is inexcusable. In a proper world education wouldn’t be forced by law, it would be accessible, and it wouldn’t take all day or require constant HW. Otherwise it’s labor.