No Homework in Finnland?

[Savolainen5]

Because America is a million times more conservative than Finland, and people hate even propositions of new taxes. Finland pays for all this through an efficient(ish) system and high taxes. Americans would die before paying the taxes Finns pay.

[Scrat555]

I wish we weren't so conservative. All the anti-gay, anti-choice conservative people make me sad. Maybe all of us liberals can just move to Europe and live conservative 'Murica to rot in its own bigotry.

[PrideofNi]

Studies do show that schools with less homework tend to have higher test grades. Probably because students won't have to worry about making up assignments, doing stuff, and will have more time to process the knowledge, along with studying.

From middle school to high school were I am, we get filled with homework, and the average for a test grade is around 84 ish out of 100. Which is horrible.

How is that horrible? lol

[Chosen1]

9gag? lool

[Nipplestockings]

In the U.S. students do not get recess time after Elementary school. Even in Elementary school, there are still times in which there is no or reduced time of recess. Not only that, i remember having homework assignments daily in first grade and beginning to receive homework on the weekends in 5th grade. I have come up with a theory: You all probably know this, towards the end of summer break (maybe 2 or 3 weeks before end) students tend to become bored and excited to go back to school. Students in Finland probably get bored of doing the same exact thing everyday when they get home. That maybe pushes them to study instead of just sitting around staring at a wall. I am in eighth grade and I am taking 2 high school classes and I am already staying up until 12 A.M. doing homework. Another thing i believe is that parents are beginning to get to paranoid. You get a C+ on a test that was intended for a 10th grader and they take away all sources of electronics for a month. Parents do not trust their kids with managing their own time. I know that if I manage my own time, I will probably end up playing maybe an hours worth of video games each day. I certainly wont abandon my school work when I get a steam notification telling me a Line battle is starting. Just wish adults would realize how much pressure they put on teens.

Why are you talking for all of the US? Have you been to every single school?

I had recess all the way up to 8th grade, and in 7th grade we started being allowed to walk around the block to buy lunch from stores in the neighborhood (I live in NYC). In highschool we're allowed to go out anywhere to get lunch in the city providing we get back to the school by the end of the lunch period, which is 50 minutes long. I also don't get very much homework.

[Karth]

In PA no recess after 8th grade here, but who cares.  Also you can't compare 600,000 students in Finland to millions and millions of American students.  Our government just doesn't have a smaller teacher to student ratio.  And actually if you study and work hard and actually have homework to practice that then you should make it well in college and beyond... But yea I still don't like hw

[Pinball Wizard]

Studies do show that schools with less homework tend to have higher test grades. Probably because students won't have to worry about making up assignments, doing stuff, and will have more time to process the knowledge, along with studying.

From middle school to high school were I am, we get filled with homework, and the average for a test grade is around 84 ish out of 100. Which is horrible.

How is that horrible? lol

Maybe its not horrible, but most of our tests are only 20 - 50 questions, unless their state tests or mid terms and finals.

[Hekko]

Well, no homework is a bit exaggerated. Now granted I have been out of primary school for a while, but back when I was in 1st and 2nd grade my mum pretty much had me chained to my desk an hour per evening doing homework. Maybe I was a slow kid so it took longer than it had to?

The school system has been great overall though, and I personally feel I learned a lot, most importantly critical thinking.

[Evanovic]

The school system has been great overall though, and I personally feel I learned a lot, most importantly critical thinking.

I think these forums need to become a Finnish school system.

[Matthew]

The graph detonating mean pisa score seams horribly misleading.

[Hekko]

The graph detonating mean pisa score seams horribly misleading.

It is, which is somewhat ironic since it is about educational standards.


The irony is that when I started 1st grade I spent 4 hours in shool per day with another hour of homework, now in business school I spend on avarage 2-3 hours in lectures per day, with less commitment outside of lectures.

[Duuring]

Wait, a four hour school day? WHAT?

[Hekko]

In first and second grade yeah 09.00-13.00

[Duuring]

MADNESS!

[Rydog]

In first and second grade yeah 09.00-13.00

Did you go to school only 5 times a week still?