The way these schools set home work nowadays its like they are trying to prove a point.
The children are given class work of 2+6-3 =?. Then they are given homework of 2√8-2 (3) =? Yes I exaggerated but its almost this bad.
The children are given class work of 2+6-3 =?. Then they are given homework of 2√8-2 (3) =? Yes I exaggerated but its almost this bad.
I come home from work and start home work ,and at past 8pm we are still on the matter and you need to see me when I'm on it. I squeeze my face anyhow, I get angry because my kids don't sit still, as we are doing assignment they are doing a thousand other things.
Because of this,my big cane is always handy and even at that my kids have little or no fear of me. They have seen me finish, Please at this moment let's just take a minute and bless teachers,They are like doctors, they save lives.
My husband used to help me out but suddenly he said he couldn't anymore. His words actually were " I can't be paying school fees and still be doing the job of a teacher". In as much as I needed help in that area I was glad he stopped helping. I know I scream and squeeze my face when helping the children, but my husband is very impatient, and is always like " so you don't know this simple maths" "what are they even teaching you in that school?"
He gets the children trembling and i have to go and rescue them.
The next PTA meeting I am to table this matter,I am tired of this difficult never ending homework. What ever point they are trying to prove I agree, they win. Our school fees is justified, please let us rest.
*I think you got it all wrong.no one is trying to prove any point,your kids need to do their home work.....Get a place comfortable for them with their reading table and let them do the homework themselves,you dont need to sit through with them,when they are done,you control and send them back if there are any mistakes.......My Bambinos always come home with home work as well and sometimes its a lot......Homework are checks and balances on a child.
If your kids attend a school where they are not sent home with home work,please go and remove them from there!
The homework thing tire me too. We literally have no time to get in done in d evenings so we end up rushing d thing in the morning before leaving d house. I dont mind plenty homework for weekends ut sch nights let me rest abeg.
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DeleteHahaha... 'whose certificate did I loss?' Never a dull moment on this blog.
DeleteJust get Lesson teacher let your wahala reduce. That’s how I will be doing assignments up and down. My hubby hardly helps, even when he does he gets tired, now with this lesson teacher, I get to rest
DeleteMy son is in Yr 3 and we don't get homework until Fridays. He goes to lesson during the week and that's where he brings in soooooo much homework but I only monitor him, he sits and does it himself "maybe I'm just lucky".
DeleteI am a chartered accountant but atimes I don't understand the logic behind the maths here even though I know the answer but my son does it "I schooled in Nigeria".
I am sincerely amazed at the way Maths and English is taught abroad: no cramming.
Pardon my errors. Puffin be auto correcting without being asked and gives no chance for u to edit. Always signing e out as welk hence i dont comment as much cos i cant be signing in everytime
ReplyDeleteStella my own is not that they shouldn't give them homework but let them make it less tedious. SOME of this teachers pick the less difficult ones and teach them then give them the harder ones as homework ,sometimes the homework are too much in the case of nursery ones. I don't have strength to type now, I would have given you instances
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DeleteStella the type of homework they give to children fear dey catch person.
ReplyDeleteImagine giving our princess to start
drawing. Princess that can't hold crayons well.
We paid them to take care of our children not to add more problems
My own na maths. Anyway dem no go see me at home for maths .
A generation of idiots is what you're planning for.
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DeleteLol @ 'dem no go see me at home for maths'
DeleteThat's what I have been seeing. The young girl living with me always come home with assignments tougher than classwork...I got tired of helping/doing them because she just started school for the first time all her life. The assignments are too much, now I just let her do them herself..I can't go to work come home late and be doing assignment. I am not even a patient teacher, so I get angry at her if she doesn't understand. If she fails, let the teacher correct it, I don tire. Teaching is not easy, I would just be knocking heads if I were to be a teacher. Pheww!
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ReplyDeleteHome work na big issue for me and my girl,especially on weekends,na to do reach Sunday's, VR,QR and weekly assessment join,at the end na me go still wash the socks wey she suppose wash las las cos na to eat sleep after finishing one
ReplyDeleteIs it even the maths alone,that one isnt even my forte. The kind of projects they give them nko. I'm constantly buying cardboard,glue,ropes,staple pins. Even looking for all sorts of soil,plants,shells etc. Mid-term will be assignment after assignment.
ReplyDeleteI am constantly on google printing out stuff then we do the "project" together. Had to get a small printer at home. You will print out and cut out all sorts.
The best thing is just to hire a lesson teacher honestly.
Im not so surprised anyway because when I was in primary school na so they use to give us different projects in corona school back then. They are just worse now I think but thank God for Google. Lol
This homework we are complaining about so,our children can do them. All you need is just to guide them. Yes it's difficult when the kids are small,but as they grow they become more confident and self sufficient. You find out that they hardly need your help any longer and they get what they are doing. Speaking from experience now. My ibejis are my last and in pry 5,do i do home work or explain stuff for them,hardly. All i do is weekend go though their books. My 1st 2 no send me. Even when they come on mid term with all the plenty home work. They do it themselves and my own is to cross check. But the begging was tough though.
ReplyDeleteThe sch my senior colleague kids attend, they so stress them that you will feel sorry for those kids, they go to sch from mon to fri and most sats and sun with tons of take home work if you see how heavy their bags are. I was told that the pass mark is 85, so any kid that scores 84 failed.
ReplyDeleteIf you see them, always looking serious, poor things, their life is so busy but empty, some of their assignments they will have to type and bind it!
Alot of private schools are in serious competition with each other. They want to be the one that will offer 20 subjects and 4 languages for a 5yr old child. Because of the exhorbitant fees they collect and wanting to be the best.
DeleteMy daughter is 5 years too Omo i just weak. Thats how the teacher told me she's not doing so well in class. I was shocked. This is a girl that is very sharp at home, even when we go out people say she's bright So i started going through her books ( we usually do her home work together weekends when her lesson teacher is off) and most times she gets them right Atleast 8 over 10. So i was lost about her teachers complain. Long story short, a good look at what they teach them shows it's too much for their brain.
DeleteMy own is this, nobody should come and kill a little girl for me all in the name of competition, because they want to produce best students to compete with other schools. All those efikos of our time where are they today? We wey we no no book then, no be we God don bless. No be we dey employ them now? I just yimu to the teacher, leave her o. Anyway, she has a lesson teacher, no one should rush my daughter bikonu. She will always know her book, that one is for sure, but please let them BREATHE.
My children's school they actually do 21 subjects and it's a pry sch 4 that matter. Exam starts next week Wednesday and would end on the 4th of dec. That's how serious it is. But one thing i like about the school,the children don't fear maths at all,and as the advance in class,you actually start enjoying. Because home work stress becomes a thing of the past. And we where advice not to ever do their home work for them. That it's best they fail it,so the teacher would re explain till they get it. And it's working well for me. My bigger children are exhaling well in their school,that i get calls from their teachers asking where they finished from. So parents please endure for now. Na the assignment we sign for.
Delete21 subjects? I weak for Nigeria.
DeleteDo primary school students write SAT exams in Nigeria? "Kids that do 11+ exams here don't even do 20 subjects: Haba kilode. When will all these nonsense, stressful, uncalled for competition stop in Nigeria?
I sincerely bless God oooo and wishing everyone in Nigeria all the best.
I try to do 80%-90% per term cos I want to be sure what my kids know and what not but I don't feel they should not give them homework,how will I know thier progress???
ReplyDeleteLike the one my younger sister used to bring back when she was lil. They would give her assignment from page 1 to 10 in different textbooks but classwork would only be 1page.. It was hell.
ReplyDeleteStella I like the way you explained it, I'll do just like that..otherwise I have no business cracking my brain...they should do everything in school and if there's homework stop giving then difficult ones which they were not even taught.
ReplyDeleteThat homework na checks and balances on the mama them.
ReplyDeleteThem wan tanda for social media come dey gossip, thaz why them no wan to dey do
homework.
The ones wey don dissolve them horsebands go come dey look abroad aghara aghara.
Una must finish those homework oo. Ya mama do am for you.
What are you on about sef,I don't Gerrit.
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DeleteHomework should actually be an extension of what they did in class and the children will be able to do it on their own. But when the homework is different and more difficult than what they did in class, of course the parents will be the ones to bear the burden because no one wants their children to fail.
ReplyDeleteHomework is just to assess what the children learnt in class but its the other way round these days. God help us
Thank you..
DeletePrinting is not even the problem but that Extremely Difficult Quantitative Reasoning. Na Mass comm I do for school egbami
ReplyDeleteHahahhaha get a lesson teacher. Me no shaking at all for maths or quantitative. Hubby and i are both engineers. All my children are grounded in maths. My 2nd born,the day he had 97% in his maths exam,that was 2nd term last year the guy cried well. With that he still came 1st oh. But just because he has always had 100% since primary school.
DeleteNna eh, quantitative reasoning these days dey hard o.
DeleteI agree. The teachers sometimes don't even go through the home work. My daughter brought one home one day and we couldn't do a particular number then I asked her to leave it. Only for the teacher to write the next day that the answer to number 3 is. 'It is impossible'. I was shocked. But then, times are changing I guess. I just didn't have the energy to take the teacher up on that nonsense.
ReplyDeleteWetin teacher won do....give children homework.... Wahala
ReplyDeleteHomework not given ....fight and complain.
If you are too busy to assist your child...get them home lesson teacher,he\she will guide them.
Till I marry and born
ReplyDeleteSometimes I ask my kids d number of class work they did because of the numerous homework,imagine 6-7 home work for a grade 4 kid during the week ooo
ReplyDeleteIn 2018? Get a good lesson teacher if you're scared of Maths. Hahahahaha.
ReplyDeleteHow do you return from work and start doing homework for your kids? You obviously don't live in a bubbling city if not traffic gridlock will drain you before getting home. I can only assist with stage presentation and reading out, on bed or while cooking, at least to level up their confidence and the tenses pronounced right.
There are electronic gadgets for them to cue in their assignments and follow the process through. Find them. We collect from school; it's part of the plenty cheques.
For painting, make sure the teacher is a hands-on instructor.p n on added to basic knowledge.
For languages, our kids use Duolingo for an hour after dinner but I make sure they don't take more than a lesson per night to avoid brain drain. They must be ahead of the class lessons that way they enjoy the coaching in school.
Just dedicate a space or even your balcony for extra lessons and your kids are good to go because the homework is part of the mooring process. The goal is to grab all the As.