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Mom declares her daughter is done with homework in viral email.

Blogger Bunmi Laditan sent her 10-year-old’s school a clear message.

“Hello Maya’s teachers,

Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. She’s been very stressed and is starting to have physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4 a.m. worrying about her school workload.

She’s not behind academically and very much enjoys school. We consulted with a tutor and a therapist suggested we lighten her workload. Doing 2-3 hours of homework after getting home at 4:30 is leaving little time for her to just be a child and enjoy family time and we’d like to avoid her sinking into a depression over this.”

fishyandclintbarton

A++++ parenting 💜

dienaziscum

I’ve talked with a whole cadre of child therapists and psychiatrists about this very issue. There is little conclusive evidence that homework significantly improves elementary school children’s grades, understanding of subjects, or facility with various operations, processes, etc. However, plenty of evidence suggests that ever-increasing amounts of homework for young children lead to stress, anxiety, emotional fatigue, resistance toward academics in general, lack of leisure time to build social/interpersonal skills, and poorer family relations. (My kids were doing about 3 hours a week IN KINDERGARTEN, at age 5 – so that’s ½ hour every night, after a 6.5 hour school day, or else saving it up for long slogs over the weekend, even more disruptive. And that wasn’t including reading practice!)

We have stopped doing homework altogether with my 7 year old as a result of severe anxiety/depression and a learning disability. She had gotten to a place where she had so little self confidence and truly believed that she was stupid and worthless, not just because of homework of course – but every time we tried to sit down to do homework with her, it’d end in tears with her really vehemently berating herself, and no amount of encouragement could ameliorate the damage done. Now, granted, she’s got other things going on besides just an overload of school work. But in NO WAY did the homework help her, either academically or emotionally.

No little kid should have to spend an hour or more each night getting through homework. Now, my deal with Siena is that if she wants to give her homework a shot, I will absolutely help her if she wishes for help, but I no longer force her to complete all of it or to work on it for some set length of time before finally throwing in the towel.

Guess what? With the pressure taken off, she’s actually doing MORE independent work now, purely out of the desire to learn and practice, than she ever was before we’d decided with her therapy team and school that homework was just not a thing this kid could handle.

Luckily for my older daughter my school’s 3rd-grade team decided to hand out homework only 3x/week, and the sheets take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete. That is totally reasonable for 8-9 year olds!

Anyway tl;dr just because the school system may require it sure as shit doesn’t mean parents can’t, or shouldn’t, fight it. Do what’s right for your kid, and above all, let them be kids.

darkwizardjamesmason

I eventually stopped doing homework because I was overwhelmed by it.

ryttu3k

There was an article just the other day in the local paper about a primary school that’s abolishing homework! You can read it here (autoplay video, gives you a few seconds to stop it).

alren-ki

God I wish this had been an option before we had to give up public school for me, I’d spend literally all my time at home doing school work, it was horrid.

ashloraptor

When I was in school, I reached the point where I could make myself fall asleep while doing homework because I caught on that only then was I not berated into doing it. I struggled with self esteem and thought I was stupid because I couldn’t do assignments on time.

ginger-le-gay-deactivated202008

Half the reason I’m in therapy is because of bullshit I faced in school. (Fuck you, public school system. Especially Mrs. Beeson.)

“Suck at math? Oh well. You won’t produce anything in society.”

FUCK THE HOUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT ESPECIALLY

leesacrakon

^^same attitude but towards my school district

crypticcunt-deactivated20230101

Homework was difficult for me when I was in public school. Often times, it would end in me crying, not being able to understand what I’m doing or even read it properly because I had been at school 8 hours that day only to come home and do 2 hours of homework. It was tiring and I fell into depression and had to be pulled from my advanced classes. My mom didn’t understand why until I told her that I was just overloaded with work. She always made me come out of my room to take breaks after that day.

thotpatroleum-deactivated202211

I never understood the point of homework and saw it as nothing more than character building anyways lmao. I hated homework with a burning passion but I think there’s a way to assign homework that isn’t impossible to do on your own and in lower volumes. I still think small amounts of homework are good for the mind though. Like going to the gym, it keeps you mentally active.

reconcatlord

I always tried to complete my homework in between classes, during lunch or while actually in class. Rarely did I take any home, but I never saw homework as something that improved my knowledge. It was more just a busy work to keep us from having too much free time. The more work I got done during the day, the more time I had when I got home to do things I wanted like learning computer programming, hardware, volunteer work, working my first jobs.