JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for January 26, 2012

Actually, either of you think this is the responsible way to get the homework done?

Sorry, the kid should do his own. You can check and proof it and send it back for corrections. But you don’t do the homework for the child.

hEY dArSan…… GET A LIFE! It’s a comic strip. It is a JOKE… DUH!

Are you saying that you are a jackass that writes?

@cheney439 Actually I know many parents who had “helped” their kids do their homework, by doing it. Later I noticed many of the kids could not keep up in college and blamed the system for their bad grades and time management problems.

Yes we know it’s a comic, but this happens in real life & the child will suffer & blame everybody else in future. Even worse the parents will too.

And this is why so many kids become so uneducated.

@shadowbeast It’s because of a lot of things. This is just one of the issues, another is that the teachers only have 1/2 a class that wants to be taught, state cutbacks, and teachers that shouldn’t be teaching in the first place.

It is true that there are many teachers out there that shouldn’t be in the classroom, but between Zero Tolerance and No Child Left Behind most good teachers have thrown up their hands in disgust and left the system.

Not all teachers have left the teaching position,. The older ones are being forced out. Student’s get bored due to overcrowding and less attention. Not enough to keep their attention going. I never did this with my kids. My son never wrote a report my daughter did from college and I read it and told her changes need done to much redundancy and more research.

I know this is a comic, but it seems that the Cobbs are acting out of character. They’re usually sensible parents, but there’s nothing sensible about doing a kid’s homework for him/her.

Well said.

This is why as a teacher, I never give homework. I want to see what the kid knows, not his parents. :)

As a former Senior high teacher (math / science) I saw that the system refuses to recognize failing as a learning tool. Some of people’s most powerful learning experiences are from failures.

I left teaching twice 77-80 and 04 – 08 (when I came back it was worse than before). I got tired of reenacting Custer’s LAst Stand with the Administration, students , and to a small degree the parents circled around me with me playing the role of Custer.

No Child Left Behind has to be one of the biggest disasters in education since “New Math”. I still remember a 9th grader taking 6th-7th grade level Algebra and I asked her what 5 times 8 was and she reached for a calculator! The ability to think doesn’t seem to be important anymore. Now we simply want to pass the test.

aww, now there’s a pair of loving parents for ya! XD

umbrella parents, God save us from them.

Sportymonk: New math would have helped me because I would have known what numbers represent, rather than regurgitating rote-learned tables. This particularly because of an elementary teacher who had kids sit in (not on the edge) of the wastebasket if they needed help, and a junior high algebra teacher who, when I was sick the week they took up factoring, said in response to my asking what it was about, said “don’t worry, you will pick it up.” I think I did by the end of the semester, but I am not sure even now.

Because of the math involved, I have seem kids learn more playing table-top role-playing games than in school – getting it out of the abstract and into the real-life usefulness, even of fantasy, makes it more easily learned.

Jojo should write the story of Benny & the rockets.

C’mon…! They should at least make Jojo stay and watch, so he’ll have at least some idea how homework should be done.I remember a time when the teacher would call the student to the front of the class and ask questions about what “they” wrote. That gave the teacher some indication as to who really did their homework.

wow that is hurtful!!! I know a lot of wonderful teachers who inspire kids everyday!!! Teaching takes a lot of caring, patience, willpower, and commitment. I got my associated degree in Elem. Ed, and the amount of training that is required for teachers is very rigorous, and your statement proves that you obviously don’t have any teachers in your close circle of acquaintances!!!