My students' parents yearn for homework (hexbear.net)

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j.j I teach lower elementary so it hasn't felt super necessary but I'm worried they might complain. I think I'll give out some fun reinforcement activities for class points and not for grade credit. Esp. since a lot of my kids don't have much support at home so it doesn't seem fair.

Plus they're in class for 7 hours a day! Let them have a break and a chance to be kids.

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

I'm jealous.

I was pressured to give out homework by the standardized bullshit plague that infested CA that was enforced by the principal. I'd have enjoyed if it was just grillman being assholes and wanting to drain all the joy out of their kids' childhoods.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

My pet theory is that this stems from the cultural rot that demands to see performance “metrics”. If the suits can’t see numbers on a sheet of paper you might as well not have been doing anything.

I haven’t had a single job without some petty tyrant with a Caesar complex fucking things up for the sake of it and demanding that everyone do meaningless shit so they can be quantifiably “doing something”.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, my immediate superiors were busybody shitheads just like that, even visiting the classroom just to feel important and try to find things "out of place."

No wonder so many lanyard liberals call people "meat computers:" *that's what they expect when they have control over others.