Homework Ban
Homework Ban
The Issue
Are your kids exhausted, are they just as over worked and underpaid as you are? For years I spun in circles executing, and completing all tasks delivered to my doorstep.
Have you ever felt like there has to be a better way! So many of the old world tactics are still being forced upon us as if they are still viable.
Although regurgitating facts, may have helped students in the past. In the age of the Internet and connectivity, I hardly think this methodology is helpful.
Our children are held to standards that we no longer hold to adults. They deliver at a very high level, and are held responsible not only for their actions, but for their level of deliverance!
I hardly think there’s a parent out there who believes that they operated on this level as a child. With elementary school students delivering like mini adults, and participating in afterschool activities that dwarf our high school experience. We should allow these children and their families time to enjoy themselves and each other.
Do you not think after a full day of school, and after school activities that they should have a mental break? Or do you think that it’s far more necessary for them to turn their brains back on, turn schooling into a torturous environment; And do them a lifetime of disservice by teaching them that educating themselves is work and not an enjoyable scenario!
In the age of Information, we should be open to the idea that these children can and do absorb much more than we do! We should also allow them the luxury to clock out of work as we do. If we would like these children to grow up and seek information on their own, we need to empower them at these building block stages. And not bog them down with busy work.
In the past, homework may have helped reinforce what we learned throughout the school day. However, we did not go to afterschool activities every single day after school until high school. And at a certain point, our children regurgitate so much information that they’re not actually learning anything they’re just spitting back what we ask them to.
So I ask you, at what point are we asking them to spit back so much Information, that they’re actually missing the building blocks? When we buzz past the basics, so that a piece of paper shows our children are brilliant… How brilliant will they be at the end of the day?
Leads me to believe, in a world where adults are not held to any standards and children are executed for things they’re not responsible for… Are we training these children to work in a cubicle, at the same time that the adult world is deleting cubicles from existence. Driven home by, AI which is also deleting the necessity for these number and fact crunching positions.
I employ you to think for a moment, I ask of you to feel for yourself and your children. I’ve been telling myself for years there is a better way. And I think I found it… One we all need to communicate and connect with each other. The idea of community is designed and built upon the fact that we all need each other to exist. Many of us have the same issues, and failed to voice them. And two we need to stop robbing these children of their one and only chance to be kids! I think a good start would be a district wide homework ban.
Several Long Island and NYS districts have already made the progressive movement towards a homework ban. These districts have found that not only is the busy work taking away from the children’s level of educational absorption. That in lieu of, worksheets, teachers have empowered students to create and develop self sought projects. These would be research papers within the parameters of the subject matters they are learning in school. Given a span of time to develop these ideas, and compile some form of a report. Many of these districts have banned homework altogether… And I ask you to do your own research, to see the level of success of the alumni of the schools with no homework.
Research has shown that children go to colleges based on their parents level of success and hard work. Surprise surprise, your morals, values and social standards will impact your children’s lives and future. So then I ask you, should we waste their brilliant minds, and juvenile mental space with busy work… A.k.a. homework? Or should we empower these brilliant little people to make the world around us a better place? And give them the best childhood we possibly can.
It is our responsibility as parents to give our children a better life than we had. As parents in the age of technology, we continually find ourselves on the front of the wild West. Let’s deliver these children, the world, and not bog them down with busy work because we as adults we have no time, and sometimes it’s easier for us when our children have a task!
I encourage you to sign this petition for a homework ban within the Mineola school district! My family and I moved here from a higher ranked school district, and a more affluent community. But please hear me when I say this community has far more connectivity, success, longevity, influence and potential than any other town I’ve lived in within this great state. And from my personal experience this town is not only the capital of Nassau County, we are an intricate cog in the city… We run and contribute to many of the industries that drive the planet. And we stand in a unique position to influence the world around us.
Join me in my mission to make our schools the best it can be, let’s all work together to make these children and ourselves less stressed in anyway, we possibly can!
I empower you, to stand behind your children, your family, and yourself. Sign the Mineola school district homework ban, and let’s stand together as a community of people who will raise these children to run the world better than we can imagine!
see references sighted below: Homework ban
Stanford Homework Research findings
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/03/too-much-homework-031014
Berkeley school hw ban
(accomplished by 5th grade)
Long Beach schools hw ban from 2018
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/long-beach-no-homework/
Farley Elementary School in Stony Point
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/01/homework-policy-petition/663141002/
https://seaislenews.com/news/2024/may/15/why-homework-should-be-banned-the-true-benefits-of/
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The Issue
Are your kids exhausted, are they just as over worked and underpaid as you are? For years I spun in circles executing, and completing all tasks delivered to my doorstep.
Have you ever felt like there has to be a better way! So many of the old world tactics are still being forced upon us as if they are still viable.
Although regurgitating facts, may have helped students in the past. In the age of the Internet and connectivity, I hardly think this methodology is helpful.
Our children are held to standards that we no longer hold to adults. They deliver at a very high level, and are held responsible not only for their actions, but for their level of deliverance!
I hardly think there’s a parent out there who believes that they operated on this level as a child. With elementary school students delivering like mini adults, and participating in afterschool activities that dwarf our high school experience. We should allow these children and their families time to enjoy themselves and each other.
Do you not think after a full day of school, and after school activities that they should have a mental break? Or do you think that it’s far more necessary for them to turn their brains back on, turn schooling into a torturous environment; And do them a lifetime of disservice by teaching them that educating themselves is work and not an enjoyable scenario!
In the age of Information, we should be open to the idea that these children can and do absorb much more than we do! We should also allow them the luxury to clock out of work as we do. If we would like these children to grow up and seek information on their own, we need to empower them at these building block stages. And not bog them down with busy work.
In the past, homework may have helped reinforce what we learned throughout the school day. However, we did not go to afterschool activities every single day after school until high school. And at a certain point, our children regurgitate so much information that they’re not actually learning anything they’re just spitting back what we ask them to.
So I ask you, at what point are we asking them to spit back so much Information, that they’re actually missing the building blocks? When we buzz past the basics, so that a piece of paper shows our children are brilliant… How brilliant will they be at the end of the day?
Leads me to believe, in a world where adults are not held to any standards and children are executed for things they’re not responsible for… Are we training these children to work in a cubicle, at the same time that the adult world is deleting cubicles from existence. Driven home by, AI which is also deleting the necessity for these number and fact crunching positions.
I employ you to think for a moment, I ask of you to feel for yourself and your children. I’ve been telling myself for years there is a better way. And I think I found it… One we all need to communicate and connect with each other. The idea of community is designed and built upon the fact that we all need each other to exist. Many of us have the same issues, and failed to voice them. And two we need to stop robbing these children of their one and only chance to be kids! I think a good start would be a district wide homework ban.
Several Long Island and NYS districts have already made the progressive movement towards a homework ban. These districts have found that not only is the busy work taking away from the children’s level of educational absorption. That in lieu of, worksheets, teachers have empowered students to create and develop self sought projects. These would be research papers within the parameters of the subject matters they are learning in school. Given a span of time to develop these ideas, and compile some form of a report. Many of these districts have banned homework altogether… And I ask you to do your own research, to see the level of success of the alumni of the schools with no homework.
Research has shown that children go to colleges based on their parents level of success and hard work. Surprise surprise, your morals, values and social standards will impact your children’s lives and future. So then I ask you, should we waste their brilliant minds, and juvenile mental space with busy work… A.k.a. homework? Or should we empower these brilliant little people to make the world around us a better place? And give them the best childhood we possibly can.
It is our responsibility as parents to give our children a better life than we had. As parents in the age of technology, we continually find ourselves on the front of the wild West. Let’s deliver these children, the world, and not bog them down with busy work because we as adults we have no time, and sometimes it’s easier for us when our children have a task!
I encourage you to sign this petition for a homework ban within the Mineola school district! My family and I moved here from a higher ranked school district, and a more affluent community. But please hear me when I say this community has far more connectivity, success, longevity, influence and potential than any other town I’ve lived in within this great state. And from my personal experience this town is not only the capital of Nassau County, we are an intricate cog in the city… We run and contribute to many of the industries that drive the planet. And we stand in a unique position to influence the world around us.
Join me in my mission to make our schools the best it can be, let’s all work together to make these children and ourselves less stressed in anyway, we possibly can!
I empower you, to stand behind your children, your family, and yourself. Sign the Mineola school district homework ban, and let’s stand together as a community of people who will raise these children to run the world better than we can imagine!
see references sighted below: Homework ban
Stanford Homework Research findings
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/03/too-much-homework-031014
Berkeley school hw ban
(accomplished by 5th grade)
Long Beach schools hw ban from 2018
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/long-beach-no-homework/
Farley Elementary School in Stony Point
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/01/homework-policy-petition/663141002/
https://seaislenews.com/news/2024/may/15/why-homework-should-be-banned-the-true-benefits-of/
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Petition created on December 3, 2024