School’s back, and for many families, that means late nights, exhausted kids and stress. Lots and lots of stress. One teacher in Texas is doing something about it.
‘I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early.’
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Maybe the degos, micks, and pollocks are just slow and take twice as much time to do the same amount of homework. Considering the Germans, Japs, Koreans, and Fins all score higher on standardized tests, I’m guessing they have longer school days and their teachers actually teach the children what they need to know in class during the school day.
Does your kid complain about endless hours of homework? If you live in Italy, those complaints could reach fever-pitch! According to research conducted by the OECD, 15-year old children in Italy have to content with nearly 9 hours of homework per week – more than anywhere else in the world.
Irish children have the second highest after-school workload – just over 7 hours each week. In the United States, about 6.1 hours of a 15-year old’s week is sacrificed on homework. In Asia, children have very little to complain about. Japanese students have to deal with 3.8 hours of homework per week on average while in South Korea, it’s just 2.9 hours.
You will find more statistics at Statista