Alexa

I think you should....my kid does not even get homework...unless he can't finish the assignments he gets during the lessons......and that in turn makes him WANT to read at home. Plus use the internet to find out about science, history etc...why? Because he does not HAVE to.

The Dean

Can't most 4-year-olds read then? Mine must have been very bright then.........

I have a more serious worry about that homework - do I detect propaganda? There is an increasing amount of evidence that the whole global warming/climate change thing is fundamentally flawed (especially the bit about sea levels rising - they aren't).

Is there an implied 'factual' element to the wording of that question? Very disturbing..........

Blue Cat

she can do letter recognition and some word recognition but still not reading sentance, I couldn't give a toss, she is still a baby in my eyes and should be enjoying school not getting stressed about. She will want to diet next

shiva

it must just be me, but i see nowt wrong with that as holiday homework.
My only gripe would be the assumption of fact in the question regarding global warming, were the question to read: state and examine the evidence which suggests or something similar, then i would be happier.

jrudofsky

For a 10 year old?

The Dean

Which is what I said, or thereabouts...............

The Dean

Homework should be SMART.............

S-pecific
M-easureable
A-greed
R-ealistic
T-imed

This isn't.

Blue Cat

said The Dean, Headmaster of BE

The Dean

See me in my study after prep.............

I'll be "correcting" your mistakes..............

shakh your bootie

I'm on teachie's side - hot house the little buggers. They'll grow up in a waaay more competitive world where their third-world cousins have frog-leaped them in the knowledge economy if you let them languish in front of the X-box all holiday.....

Make 'em work. Mine are up a chiminey as we speak earning their keep whilst reciting the Art of War verbatim - I poke em with a long sharp stick if they get it wrong.

It's not a holiday it's a learning re-enforcement opportunity. Bah.

MacScot

Anthropomorphic theories of "global warming" are increasingly being doubted. For example, Japanese Climate Scientists Disagree with Man made global warming theory:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02...t_translation/

and

Global Warming Petition Project
31,478 American scientists object to the Man made global warming theory:

http://www.petitionproject.org/ and look at 12-page peer-reviewed research paper.

The Dean

Yes............ and furthermore.............

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...ever-told.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...-thin-ice.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...l-warming.html

MacScot

'Tis good science to hear all sides of arguments. There was a period when some scientists in the USA were being targeted for their views and not agreeing with the 'consensus' viewpoint...some people even tried to get them the sack at unversities or revoke their degrees !

shiva

yes.
as syb points out there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of kids in current third and second world countries doing just this and more. if parents want a spoon fed xbox moron go right ahead, if they want a kid that can get a job in 20 yrs time then get em learning. the UAE has a relatively short school year and long holidays are common, spilt down over the weeks its actually very little work or learning for them to do

shiva

the problem with global warming is al gore and the media en mass ahve taken hold of it and strangled the science out of it, having replaced it with the usual complement of empty rhetoric and fear.