I would personally say, I never liked the idea of going home after school hours with homework, I mean after spending like nine (9) to ten (10) hours in school only to be burdened with lots of home assignment, especially for those who can't evev have enough time for themselves, leaving the school premises after closure only to go straight to the shop or farm to support those already there, no time to rest or play with my peers. This wasn't just funny and comfortable to me when growing up. Little did I know how helpful it later became for me.
This in other hand brought about the sneaking in and out of the house just to go and play with other children at the slightest opportunity we got. Wow! Memories are just coming in my heads.
Even in most cases I quickly stay back I'm class just to get all my assignment done especially if its pertaining the most recent topic been taught but to the ones thwt needed parents guidance I would just take it home.
Surprisingly with these stressful situation I hardly give excuses that I couldn't do my assignment, I must look for a small chance either by day or by night to get the home work done. Given th facts that most of our parents or elderly ones hardly get the free time to attend to us the children regarding our homework, we still had to go meet our colleagues for assistantship.
As parents whose every opportunity (by these I meant doing several pay jobs aside their usual job) they got was to make sure food and amenities are provided for the household.
Some might say this was just suffering phases but to us this was just a training ground considering the kind of family I came from and some of you'll.
As a grown man, I understand better regarding the regular take home assignment, it was just a way of improving yourself while imagining the teacher is also there with you or a way of putting your brain box to work, what we call DIY --do it yourself phase. It was just a way for a child to survive academically on their own, ad I'm not still praising the parents to completely take their eyes off the children especially at a young age and class.
And like I said I can understand how tiring and exhausted doing multiple day jobs and after returns at dawn what is next is eating, relaxation and sleep, not PR you to start waking them up to sort of the homework at deep in the night.
There's a particular homework me and my peers did together that I knew nothing, after the assignment I told them they did not know the stress and confusion they had just freed me from, they all laughed casually. Only I knew that I would have done it in a different way and maybe failed it. Cheers to the good and trusted colleagues we all had in some point of our life
Now what is assignment? Homework is suppose to be an extended lesson basically for self studying of what we're previously taught in school, and the job of our parent was to assist in ways they can.
As I said before, homework helps build children confidence, builds connection between them and parents, mine was to my dad MD he would then start asking how the day in school went.
It encourages the children to get better and smarter as they try it themselves, DIY is very important concerning homework, and to the teachers it make their next teaching session becomes easier giving the facts that almost all student have gotten the basics and even made few advancement in the topic.
The idea behind homework given to pupils or students stays valid personally and I think to others too and shouldn't be scrapped, it will only raised the number of unserious and non chalant kids. It should remain on the every school curriculum always.
Chizzypens