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Parents should definitely NOT be writing essays, etc for their children.
I seem to occasionally help guys with their usage of verb tense, possessive pronouns and other grammar when I meet them and English is not their first language. It actually happens quite a bit.
Lech, no such issues with my kid’s writing being suboptimized by my help cause me NOT helping is actually helping him (ie he would end up getting C’s vs B’s). Chinaman good with math but writing is not strong suit
This should horrify you Lech (As it does, me) : In my younger sons school, they work in teams and get grades that way, too. He is in the 7th grade but they continue the team system through high school. They want to encourage the cooperative approach.
Revolting, isn’t it?
How many college applicants actually write their own application essays any more? I bet very few.
Maybe that’s why so many of the highly educated people I know can’t write their way out of a paper bag. Mommy and daddy never cut them off and told them to just figure it out themselves.
They just keep helping and helping, and then they reach some sort of point of no return where they’re afraid to withdraw the help because it’s become so integral to the kid’s supposed skill set.
I wasn’t busting on anyone’s smarts dibs. BHS has always seemed pretty solid. And I know tons of people out there help their kids with their homework. It’s just seems wrong to me somehow. What’s the point of grading homework if you’re just grading the parents? Or do they not grade homework any more?
Parents should definitely NOT be writing essays, etc for their children.
I seem to occasionally help guys with their usage of verb tense, possessive pronouns and other grammar when I meet them and English is not their first language. It actually happens quite a bit.
Lech, no such issues with my kid’s writing being suboptimized by my help cause me NOT helping is actually helping him (ie he would end up getting C’s vs B’s). Chinaman good with math but writing is not strong suit
“Maybe that’s why so many of the highly educated people I know can’t write their way out of a paper bag.”
Agree 100%. So horrific what I have to review and revise every day it’s embarrassing.
I have a friend who is a principal and is totally opposed to homework – he sees it as a tradition that does more harm than good.
My wife is a teacher and she has mixed feelings of how useful it is.
I don’t have any professional opinion, but I do think it is a pain in the ass.
I think I’d be hard pressed to remember a lot of geometry as well.
I know the 3-4-5 rule and things like that because I do a lot of carpentry.
In fact, teaching a kid the basics of carpentry with a speed square is a good way to learn geometry in a practical appliction.
This should horrify you Lech (As it does, me) : In my younger sons school, they work in teams and get grades that way, too. He is in the 7th grade but they continue the team system through high school. They want to encourage the cooperative approach.
Revolting, isn’t it?
How many college applicants actually write their own application essays any more? I bet very few.
Maybe that’s why so many of the highly educated people I know can’t write their way out of a paper bag. Mommy and daddy never cut them off and told them to just figure it out themselves.
They just keep helping and helping, and then they reach some sort of point of no return where they’re afraid to withdraw the help because it’s become so integral to the kid’s supposed skill set.
Intellectual parental welfare.
I used to dread the “pop quiz”.
I wasn’t busting on anyone’s smarts dibs. BHS has always seemed pretty solid. And I know tons of people out there help their kids with their homework. It’s just seems wrong to me somehow. What’s the point of grading homework if you’re just grading the parents? Or do they not grade homework any more?