Mom Emails School To Tell Her Kid Won’t Be Doing Homework Anymore, And Here’s Why
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With recesses getting shorter and workloads at school getting bigger, kids are getting to have less and less free time. Is this really good for our children? One mom thinks not.
When Bunmi Laditan’s 10-year-old daughter started experiencing chest pain and waking up in the middle of the night dues to stress, Laditan decided enough was enough. So, even though her daughter loves independent learning, the mother of 3 emailed her daughter’s school to let them know she was done with homework. Following the email, Laditan wrote a now viral Facebook post about how her home is now going to be homework-free: “My kid is done with homework. I just sent an email to her school letting her know she’s all done,” Laditan writes. “I said “drastically reduce” but I was trying to be polite because she’s finished.” The post has gone viral since with over 53k likes, 12k shares, and thousands of parents from all over agreeing with her.
When a girl started getting chest pains because of too much homework, her mom decided enough was enough
“My kid is done with homework. I just sent an email to her school letting her know she’s all done”
The internet was quick to support Laditan’s decision
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It makes me a little bit angry when people think that we don't have homework in Finland... I just spent 5 hours doing my homework. But I guess it doesn't count because I live in Finland :D
But otherwise I agree with everything! Homework isn't the key to success.
Indeed. Homework is not banned, but they do have a lot less of it, I suppose it depends on the age of the kid. My son is 12 (in the sixth grade) and he does about 30 mins of homework mon-fri. They do a lot of their "homework" together in class.
I agree, it's a lot easier here, but I would still prefer a little less homework. I have two Italian friends that moved to Finland, and they said it's easy here compared to Italy... Must've been horrible there!
Yes, I agree with you about that. That's very smart ways of learning. We used to do that way and the "not good students" will improve more than they learn from teachers or parents.
Yes, the homework banned thing in Finland was new to me too. The last thing I heard was that there shouldn't be grades anymore. And I am sometimes irritated too that Finland is always the land of milk and honey when it comes to education. No, it isn't there are problems and frustrations too. Like in every nation. But at least in my youth I would have loved to rather go to an art orientated school in Finland. Well, I suffered through the German school system. And I sort of can relate to the daughter. I had similar problems. But compared to the present, I think my school stress was relatively tame.
How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I've seen kids as young as 5 years old sent home with work sheets and homework that take them a good hour to hour and a half after being in school all day. It's ridiculous.
I'm 16 now. I think 5 years old children shouldn't even go to school, it's not good for them. Sucks that their childhood is destroyed by school and homework.
Homework for 5 years old? That's insane!! I live in the Netherlands and I didn't got any homework till I was 12, though it differs per school here. Now that I'm 17 I'm drowning in homework and barely have any time to relax left :(
What level of schooling are you currently in, Eppu Jäppinen? Is 5 hours typical for your grade level in Finland? (I'm just curious xD)
1st year of upper secondary school / 10th grade. My friends have told me I'm lucky that I can sleep 8 hours per night. Mostly they get like 5-6 hours of sleep, because they have so much homework to do.
Yeah, but at least your homework is Finnish before you even started.
We don't have any ban on homework here in Finland! Stop spreading this nonsense! Though we don't sit at school 8 hours a day. So maybe that's the difference.
The child in question is 10 years old. Approximately how much homework do 10 year olds in Finland have?
Max 1 hour, more like 30 minutes.
If you have a a real concern about the amount of work students are getting, you need to get involved. Speak to teachers and other parents about changing homework loads, instead of risking your child's grades and send her to face her teachers, while you make a stand from social media.
She did that. She sent an email to the school and offered to talk to the teacher and principal of the school. Her tone was polite and she's willing to compromise. This is ongoing. Posting this on social media is drawing crucial attention to this problem.
We musn't upset the social justice warriors. Their main source of motivation is to complain about whatever issue they deem fit to complain about. LOL
She did send an email to the teachers and explained her point of view as a responsible mother clearly. I suppose you either didn't read this article or you just don't like the idea of kids not spending 2 hours at home doing homework on daily basis.
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No, she lectured to the teacher and demanded a change. Not a win-win. As a teacher, I have no problem with a homework free agenda, as long as parents have no problem with the subsequent tracking it leads to - since those that DO do the practice will, as a result, be more skilled. I teach AP courses, and students cannot master the content without considerable out-of-class reading. Now, if the homework consists of tedious worksheets, a serious talk with the teacher is needed, but worthwhile yet time consuming work must be completed out of school.
She just did get involved & spoke to the teacher. Did you not read this?
I agree, because I'm a grandparent raising a 11 yr old grandson and I volunteer in the lower grade classrooms, since I know from experience what goes on in classrooms! when he wasn't coming home with any homework I found the school had very low standards, which was not a good fit for him... I moved schools where he had 45min-1hr of homework that was reasonable but by mid year he was coming home with a lot more homework! I made a few unannounced visits to his class to find the teacher was not on schedule with the lessons, however the kids were enjoying the open conversation time, but the teachers have lesson requirements to meet, so the kids were bringing home assignments that should've been done in class. Once I found mine was drawing instead of doing his lesson! I explained to him anything not finished at school becomes homework!! Just like many adults bring home work because they spend a lot of their work time on social media!!!
It makes me a little bit angry when people think that we don't have homework in Finland... I just spent 5 hours doing my homework. But I guess it doesn't count because I live in Finland :D
But otherwise I agree with everything! Homework isn't the key to success.
Indeed. Homework is not banned, but they do have a lot less of it, I suppose it depends on the age of the kid. My son is 12 (in the sixth grade) and he does about 30 mins of homework mon-fri. They do a lot of their "homework" together in class.
I agree, it's a lot easier here, but I would still prefer a little less homework. I have two Italian friends that moved to Finland, and they said it's easy here compared to Italy... Must've been horrible there!
Yes, I agree with you about that. That's very smart ways of learning. We used to do that way and the "not good students" will improve more than they learn from teachers or parents.
Yes, the homework banned thing in Finland was new to me too. The last thing I heard was that there shouldn't be grades anymore. And I am sometimes irritated too that Finland is always the land of milk and honey when it comes to education. No, it isn't there are problems and frustrations too. Like in every nation. But at least in my youth I would have loved to rather go to an art orientated school in Finland. Well, I suffered through the German school system. And I sort of can relate to the daughter. I had similar problems. But compared to the present, I think my school stress was relatively tame.
How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I've seen kids as young as 5 years old sent home with work sheets and homework that take them a good hour to hour and a half after being in school all day. It's ridiculous.
I'm 16 now. I think 5 years old children shouldn't even go to school, it's not good for them. Sucks that their childhood is destroyed by school and homework.
Homework for 5 years old? That's insane!! I live in the Netherlands and I didn't got any homework till I was 12, though it differs per school here. Now that I'm 17 I'm drowning in homework and barely have any time to relax left :(
What level of schooling are you currently in, Eppu Jäppinen? Is 5 hours typical for your grade level in Finland? (I'm just curious xD)
1st year of upper secondary school / 10th grade. My friends have told me I'm lucky that I can sleep 8 hours per night. Mostly they get like 5-6 hours of sleep, because they have so much homework to do.
Yeah, but at least your homework is Finnish before you even started.
We don't have any ban on homework here in Finland! Stop spreading this nonsense! Though we don't sit at school 8 hours a day. So maybe that's the difference.
The child in question is 10 years old. Approximately how much homework do 10 year olds in Finland have?
Max 1 hour, more like 30 minutes.
If you have a a real concern about the amount of work students are getting, you need to get involved. Speak to teachers and other parents about changing homework loads, instead of risking your child's grades and send her to face her teachers, while you make a stand from social media.
She did that. She sent an email to the school and offered to talk to the teacher and principal of the school. Her tone was polite and she's willing to compromise. This is ongoing. Posting this on social media is drawing crucial attention to this problem.
We musn't upset the social justice warriors. Their main source of motivation is to complain about whatever issue they deem fit to complain about. LOL
She did send an email to the teachers and explained her point of view as a responsible mother clearly. I suppose you either didn't read this article or you just don't like the idea of kids not spending 2 hours at home doing homework on daily basis.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
No, she lectured to the teacher and demanded a change. Not a win-win. As a teacher, I have no problem with a homework free agenda, as long as parents have no problem with the subsequent tracking it leads to - since those that DO do the practice will, as a result, be more skilled. I teach AP courses, and students cannot master the content without considerable out-of-class reading. Now, if the homework consists of tedious worksheets, a serious talk with the teacher is needed, but worthwhile yet time consuming work must be completed out of school.
She just did get involved & spoke to the teacher. Did you not read this?
I agree, because I'm a grandparent raising a 11 yr old grandson and I volunteer in the lower grade classrooms, since I know from experience what goes on in classrooms! when he wasn't coming home with any homework I found the school had very low standards, which was not a good fit for him... I moved schools where he had 45min-1hr of homework that was reasonable but by mid year he was coming home with a lot more homework! I made a few unannounced visits to his class to find the teacher was not on schedule with the lessons, however the kids were enjoying the open conversation time, but the teachers have lesson requirements to meet, so the kids were bringing home assignments that should've been done in class. Once I found mine was drawing instead of doing his lesson! I explained to him anything not finished at school becomes homework!! Just like many adults bring home work because they spend a lot of their work time on social media!!!