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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by bodhiandpysics1 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:13PM (#29183667)
There are a finite number of school hours! Teachers have to be paid! That being said, America is extremely unusual in the small number of explicit classroom hours students have, and the large amount of homework students are expected to do.
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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by skyde on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:27AM (#29184735)
I believe homework are useless. but if you think they are a more effective way of learning then why not replace lecture with exercise?

Or are you simply saying student need to dedicate more hours per day than only school hours to not get behind ?

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by coredog64 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:51PM (#29183905)
Students from France are absolutely laughing at this. Wednesdays are half days and the homework load at the lower grade levels is mind boggling.
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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by bodhiandphysics on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @10:18PM (#29184096)
Students in France go to school 6 days a week and have a longer school year.
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