The “didn’t ask” excuse works well for parents, but not always at school. Although the class can support such a student and declare in chorus that, they say, yes, they didn’t ask. True, some “nerd” who has perfectly prepared the lesson and wants to get an assessment for his work can “burn” the situation. It’s easy to bring the class to clean water: look in diaries or notebooks to see if the task is written down, and look into the notebook of diligent students: if nothing was asked, then why did Sasha / Masha / Katya do this task? There is very little chance of students in schools with, in which all homework is recorded.

Answer #2. I wasn't there / I didn't know they didn't tell me

It's already a classic. Many students sincerely hope that this will work. They blame classmates for not saying, not calling. If the situation repeats itself often, perhaps the children really do not share information about homework out of harm. But in any case, you need to understand that it is the responsibility to find out the task from the one who missed it, and not from his classmates.

From the film "Antoshka", 1969

Answer #3. Forgot (lost) diary

Also a popular answer. Some also begin to mention other teachers that they allegedly took the diary at the lesson, and because of them the student did not do the work. There are children who talk about the fact that the diary is similar to the one that was last year, they accidentally threw it away, etc. By the way, often children do not write down the task in the diary at all, so its presence does not save them much. We recommend that when discussing d / s, check whether the students wrote down the task in a diary or in a notebook. A few lessons of hard checking of homework records with taking diaries out of bags, and then this stage of the lesson will go faster and more efficiently.

Answer #4. I did, but I forgot my notebook at home

And then they make a very sad face, almost tears on their faces. After all, they are very offended, they did everything, but there is no notebook in the backpack. It happens that children have the same notebooks and they say that they took the wrong notebook. But in a situation where the homework was oral, such students start to panic.

Answer #5. The lights went out and I was just about to start

Indeed, force majeure circumstances are always to blame for everything. The light could really be turned off, but for a few minutes, a maximum of 30, but in the dark the children had an idea not to do the task at all, and the excuse was already ready.

Answer #6. I didn't understand the assignment at all.

Children love to say that they tried and failed. Either the question was not understood, or the task of the teacher was not understood. Responsible children in this situation do another task, come up and apologize, but show that they tried. But if the child did not want to do it, then most likely the misunderstanding of the task is due precisely to the lack of motivation. We recommend that when explaining homework, not just write the number of the paragraph and exercises on the board, but really discuss the assignment, open it, look at it, ask leading questions and make sure that the children understand it. Well, if they want to go to the “tried, but it didn’t work out”, let them provide records, drafts of their “efforts”. It is not always desirable to call such a student to the board to analyze an incomprehensible task, because this can generally discourage the desire to be frank and talk about his failure. But if the student wants to, then why not solve / discuss these exercises together at a break or at the beginning of the lesson.

Answer #7. Yesterday I felt bad, and today too

Illness often makes adjustments to our plans. But for some children, the state of health worsens in a situation where you need to study intensively: control, difficult homework. And here the classic excuse comes to the rescue: “I was sick.” In this case, you need to ask for at least a note from the parents with a request not to ask the student that day because of poor health.

Answer #8. My parents took me to my grandmother (to the dacha), but I did not take a notebook (book)

Children use this option on Monday, because the weekend is the best way to go on vacation. The family returns on Sunday, but the children have no desire to learn. So they use an excuse in the form of a real-life event. By the way, the children themselves begin to believe that this is really a reason not to learn the lesson. Tips: Teach your kids not to put off homework for the weekend, as some homework can be done in the middle of the week. You should not give voluminous homework for the weekend, because students already study 5-6 days a week and, like adults, need to relax and communicate with family and friends. Well, if students regularly say that they couldn’t do their homework because their parents took them somewhere, took them away, etc., then it’s worth raising the question with parents why they are violating the obstacles to getting a quality education for their children, and This means that they are violating parental responsibilities. Such a family (quite prosperous, vacationing at resorts every weekend) can also be put on the trade union council, of course, after all the “normal” ways of communication have not helped.

Answer #9. I have a circle (training) and classes end late

This is especially true for adult children, they go to creative, sports sections, plus preparing for exams, and they also want to take a walk, read and so on. So they complain about the lack of time. The "victim" of this situation, of course, will be homework. In difficult cases, a serious conversation is needed with parents who create an unbearable burden for their children that does not correspond to their physical capabilities. Such children suffer from nervousness, do not get enough sleep, they have weak immunity and, in general, a whole “bouquet” of problems. It is necessary to work with individual parents on the trade council, to raise questions about the improper performance of their duties.

Answer #10. The younger brother (dog) tore

This excuse is more often used by children 10-14 years old. It is very simple to check - ask the class teacher or come to the parent meeting. Another excuse from the same series: I spilled coffee / tea on a notebook with a completed task, but did not bring it. Teachers need to know: a school child should have his own space in the apartment, a table, a drawer, accessories that only he uses. If such a space is not provided for the child, serious work is needed with parents - the child is deprived of basic household amenities, which seriously affects both academic performance and the child's health.

Answer #11. My e-book/Internet didn't work

So far, this excuse is not so popular, but in the coming years, with the introduction of electronic textbooks, electronic diaries and everything else electronic, a child who has a broken device or lost Internet connection will be cut off from classes, lessons and other things. What to do in these situations? Teach children and parents to cooperate with other families and provide alternative learning opportunities.

What is the result?

Having heard from the child an excuse about the reasons for the unfulfilled work, one should not immediately conclude that the child is lying. The teacher should feel the situation, ask a few questions and only then draw conclusions. There are unforeseen circumstances in life, and scolding children for what they are not guilty of, we can discourage them from learning.

Each of us may have reasons why we didn’t learn our “lesson”: we didn’t cook dinner, went to bed earlier, didn’t work so intensively in the office, etc., so let’s give our children students the opportunity to make mistakes and be sometimes unprepared for the lesson. We recommend at the beginning of the year to announce your own rules on how a student should act if a lesson has not been learned, and to give several such opportunities a year: 2-3 burning attempts to come unprepared for an unexcused reason without any sanctions and lectures.

Teachers should pay attention: if the same student regularly comes with unlearned lessons, you need to contact the parents and record such requests under the protocol. In some cases, professional advice and other means of influence are needed.

Well, if all the students are constantly not ready for the lesson, then it is worth analyzing your teaching methodology and building relationships with students.

We tell why schoolchildren cheat and whether it is possible to fight it.

Ready-made homework assignments are thematic literature that contains answers to exercises from school textbooks. According to the Yandex search engine, almost every day since the beginning of the school year, GDZ [ready-made homework] has become one of the most popular requests. In addition, according to statistics from the SimilarWeb online service, two Russian sites, znanija.com and megaresheba.ru, are in the list of the 50 most popular educational sites in the world. Both resources contain GDZ for schoolchildren of different ages.

Svoykirovsky talked with teachers, schoolchildren, their parents and experts to find out if the education system is changing under the influence of the solution books.

Why do students use GDZ?

Teachers notice that Russian education is trying to embrace the immensity. A large number of disciplines does not allow students to delve into each topic. This year, the federal state educational standard (FSES - ed.) of secondary general education has changed. Now the curriculum of specialized and non-core classes should contain 11-12 subjects, while in the standard of 2012 there were 9-10. Educational programs have also changed: many classes have new subjects - a second foreign language, astronomy, robotics and the Origins program. Given the already serious load, new subjects often appear not as separate disciplines, but within existing ones or by reducing the load on other subjects. For example, astronomy is carried out within the framework of physics, and robotics - as a social elective. While new items are introduced, students try to deal with the old ones.

Little time is allocated for some topics in the school curriculum, since in the curriculum the number of hours is distributed among all disciplines. In such a situation, homework plays an important role. They are needed to consolidate knowledge and as a test of how the material is learned. But the older the student, the more homework he has to do. For example, in grades 10 and 11, literature is given three hours a week and 102 hours a year. The teachers themselves admit that this time is not enough to study some works. Their texts are so long that schoolchildren have to be allowed to use the summary.

The education system in England and the United States takes the approach that in the middle classes, students can create their own individual schedule with subjects chosen depending on plans for the future. While Russian students need to study everything that is in the program. At the same time, high school students gradually "score" on those items that will not be useful to them in the future. For example, for admission to a university. Therefore, in some cases, GDZ is an opportunity to test your knowledge, and in others, it is a way to find time for personal matters.

- I have been using the GDZ since the 6th grade, mainly the algebra solution book, since many different points need to be checked in this subject. After I look at the solution, I try to understand it in order to better understand the topic. GDZ helps a lot in this, if not just write off, - says seventh grader Misha.

For some, learning at school is given relatively easily, for others, studying becomes a test literally from the first day. Difficulties are not always associated with the transition from one link to another, sometimes they are provoked by conflicts in the classroom, problems in the family, a discrepancy between the psychotype of the child and the profile of education.

There are two factors that influence a student's desire to study well. Firstly, in high school, students understand that when entering a university, when solving controversial issues, the selection committee pays attention not only to the results of the exam, but also to the certificate. Therefore, teenagers say that the most important thing for them is grades, and the easiest way not to get a deuce is to use GDZ.

- We go through the topics quickly, we have to keep up with the plan, so there is a huge amount of homework, her teachers try to check every lesson. For example, I need understanding only in those subjects that I pass, so I write off 70% of homework, and decide the rest with tutors. Now I finish my assignments after midnight, it seems to me that if I did all my homework myself, I would not sleep at all. My parents don't know that I have to stay up late trying not to get angry because they swear. They just don’t understand what more or less good grades cost me, and they are very important for them,” says eleventh-grader Sasha.

Secondly, children do not want to go into conflict with parents and teachers. Psychologists note that often schoolchildren study not for themselves, but for adults. After all, parents, as a rule, have high hopes for their child: “Study to live normally”, “Now there is nowhere without education.” It turns out that children acquire knowledge mechanically. And if a student is not as successful as his parents would like, it is useless to swear, you need to understand the reasons, experts say.

- For some schoolchildren, the word "scold" is associated with a remark, and for others - to flog so that it hurts to sit on the priest. Therefore, this word and these measures should not be used. It is better to analyze the situation and talk calmly, explaining that the child is not alone and the parent wants to help him. It is necessary to positively influence the student, because it is impossible to learn from fear - sooner or later a person adapts to this. You need to rejoice with the child at five and praise him. I also think that in some situations parents and children talk about different things. For example, when a child sits late at the computer. Adults think that he is having fun, and the child simply does not understand what is happening with his studies. In such a situation, you just need to find out the situation together, - explains psychotherapist Maria Dubrovskaya.

How teachers and parents struggle with GDZ

Many parents, realizing the importance of grades, try to help their child do their homework. But the school curriculum, textbooks and assignments are constantly changing and becoming more complicated, adults often cannot cope with even the simplest tasks. Then GDZ come to the rescue.

However, teachers themselves notice that current textbooks may contain, to put it mildly, incorrect assignments:

“Modern textbooks are getting weirder, to say the least. It got to the point that in elementary school you have to turn to tutors in solving any particular task. Those, in turn, collect all their knowledge in a heap, consult the Internet / textbooks / colleagues and issue the most rational, in their opinion, solution. And in the end it turns out to be either wrong or "far-fetched". The result - a tearful child with a deuce in the diary and completely beaten off hope for a successful graduation from school. Well, how is it without GDZ? In order to completely abandon the solution books, you must first put the education system in order, - says the Kirov teacher Elena (name changed at the request of the interlocutor - ed.).

The student cheats, which has a bad effect on his learning. After all, knowledge is not deposited in the head, the skill of solving is not formed. That is why many parents and teachers forbid children to use GDZ.

- I want to develop thinking in my child, not to practice blind cheating. I ask him for a decision, if it is wrong, together with him we will analyze where he has a gap in education. Once we caught him cheating from the GDZ. It turned out that even in it there are errors. He had the wrong decision, he could not explain where it came from. A serious conversation took place. Now everyone is copying from him,” says Mikhail, the father of a sixth grader.

Despite the control, finding answers to tasks is getting easier: there are a lot of sites on the network that host GDZ. Many of them even have a detailed algorithm for solving not only homework, but also control ones. But that, no matter how fast technological progress moves, there is an “iron” way to test knowledge - with the help of independent and control work.

- It is very simple to check whether the student himself did the task: you can enter several lines from the creative task into the search engine: it will display it on the site with exactly the same text, which means it has been copied. Or if the child is weak, but wrote without errors, then either the GDZ was used, or someone helped. Then you can give a test on this topic in the lesson: it will show more precisely what grade he knows the material for, - says Konstantin Yarygin, teacher at the Center for Distance Education of Children.

In an attempt to avoid thoughtless cheating, another task falls on the shoulders of teachers: to rework or expand the exercises from the textbook, as well as to come up with creative tasks.

- I think that students can use the GDZ if they want to check the received answer. But it must be remembered that the GDZ is also written by people who are not immune from errors. The use of solution books significantly affected only the performance of independent tasks. Indeed, in the classroom, the student is still less likely to find these answers in an "illegal" way. I don't often notice that my students copy homework from workbooks, as many of them are creative. It seems to me that with the help of their imagination, teachers can fight mindless cheating,” says Ekaterina Belova, a teacher at school No. 10.

So does the GDZ affect the education system?

Despite all the controversy, the teachers themselves claim that the GDZ has almost no effect on the learning process, rather on the students themselves - there are more of those who do not invest in education. But there are teachers who are not inclined to shift all responsibility onto the system and childish laziness. After all, an adequate distribution of the load is one of the main tasks of the teacher.

Every teacher has a homework quota. For example, I know how much time will be spent on each task: it should not be too much or too little. Mandatory level is three, and then by the level of opportunities. It turns out that teachers are partly to blame if they distribute the load incorrectly. You need to understand that children do not study only one subject. In general, the teacher is now trying to convince students that tests and state exams will have to be written without the GDZ. I had a sad experience when a student used the solution books for a long time, and when he stopped, he fell into deuces, - says Alevtina Kryazhevsky, Deputy Director for Educational Work of the MKOU Secondary School with an in-depth study of certain subjects in the village. Murygino.

There are no ways to solve the problem of using ready-made homework assignments yet. The Institute for the Development of Education in the Kirov Region says that cheating from reshebnikov is a subject of attention not only for experts in the field of education in our region, but also for the whole country as a whole.

-Children use the GDZ as a ready-made cliché, without practicing the necessary actions. And I find it difficult to answer how this situation can be corrected. Now the solution books have become public, it is impossible for students to block access to the Internet. The only thing teachers can try to convey to schoolchildren is that the use of GDZ can adversely affect the passing of the state final certification in grades 9 and 11. Because certain skills will not be formed, - says Nadezhda Nosova, head of the department of subject areas of the Institute for the Development of Education in the Kirov Region.

In the USA, mandatory meetings with teachers are held: parents come to school, get acquainted with teachers, see what and how. At one of these meetings, Brandy, who teaches second graders, handed out notes to her parents with killer information: there will be no homework until the end of the year. At home, you only need to finish what the student did not have time to finish in class. The teacher suggested that parents use the free time to good use: hold family dinners, read books with the whole family, walk more on the street and go to bed earlier.

The mother of one of the students photographed the note.

Many liked the idea, judging by the huge number of likes and shares.

In fact, no homework is required. That's why.

1. Homework is bad for your health

All parents talk about this: the ever-increasing academic workload and stress testing hit the health of children.

• Due to the high load, children sleep less. They stay up late on their books and worry about their grades, which leads to sleep problems. The relation among sleep duration, homework burden, and sleep hygiene in chinese school-aged children ..
• We have healthy schoolchildren. Myopia, gastritis, chronic fatigue, posture disorders - the child probably has some of this.

So, maybe spit on this homework and grades and do something more useful?

2. Homework takes time

Today, children are busier than ever, says Peter Gray, professor at Boston College. They spend too much time at school, then run to the tutors, turn into the section on the way back. The schedule is strictly regulated, every hour is taken into account.

Children learn languages, mathematics, programming. But they have no time to learn life.

Psychologist Harris Cooper conducted research that proved that homework assignments are not very effective: a child will not learn too much information. Toddlers need no more than 20 minutes of extra classes, older ones - an hour and a half Homework in Elementary School..

For comparison: according to our sanitary rules, an hour and a half is the volume for the second class. Graduates can spend three and a half hours on lessons. Almost half a day, and that's after school. And when to live?

3. Homework does not affect academic performance

Alfie Kohn, one of the leading critics of education, wrote the book Myths about Homework in 2006. In it, he said that for younger students, there is no relationship between the amount of homework and academic achievement. In high school, the connection is so weak that it almost disappears if more accurate measurement methods are used in the study. Rethinking Homework..

Not everyone agrees with this. Tom Sherrington, teacher and advocate for the practice of homework, has come to the conclusion that in elementary school there is little benefit from homework, but when students are over 11 years old, lessons help to achieve brilliant results. Homework Matters..

The long-term benefit of canceling homework is not really measurable. The TMISS Research Center found out how much time students spend on homework in different countries. So, in the fourth grade, only 7% of students do not do their homework. How Much of Their Out-of-School Time Do Students Spend on Homework During the School Week .. A small number for analysis.

4. Homework doesn't teach you anything.

School education is completely out of touch with life. After many years of studying English, graduates cannot connect two words, they have no idea in which hemisphere they rest, they firmly believe in strength. Homework continues the trend of stuffing their heads with facts that kids can't apply.

As a student, I worked as a tutor, helping schoolchildren to improve the Russian language. Initially, children could not decline the simplest noun "door". There was only fear in his eyes: now they will give an assessment. I had to devote half of each lesson to the topic “Russian in everyday life”, to prove that we speak like that. For each case, I came up with a sentence. Not like in a textbook, but like in life: “Quiet, you’ll pinch the cat’s tail with the door!” When the children understood that all school knowledge is our world, grades improved dramatically and my help became unnecessary.

Remember how you learned and compare the process with the lessons in . If homework helped bridge the gap between class and life, it would be useful. But it's not.

5. Homework kills the desire to study.

“Doing homework” still means either solving school examples or reading a few paragraphs. In fact, teachers push home what they did not have time to tell from bell to bell. It is so dreary that homework turns into a heavy duty.

Worse than this boredom are only "creative" tasks, which boil down to drawings and PowerPoint presentations. Fresh story from work:

A post shared by Kess (@chilligo) on Oct 17, 2016 at 10:11am PDT

In the task about the starling, it was also necessary to explain the reasons for his sadness. I doubt that the starlings are really worried to tears about the upcoming vacation and will miss the birch trees, but that’s exactly how it should have been answered.

That is, at home, the child should be bored or do stupid things instead of talking with friends, walking and playing sports. And who will love to study after that?

6. Homework ruins relationships with parents

Many parents do homework with and for the children. It turns out so-so.

• The school curriculum has changed, the knowledge of parents is outdated.
• Many parents themselves do not remember simple examples from the school curriculum and try to complete tasks from the point of view of an adult. Children don't know how.
• Parents are not teachers. They did not learn how to explain the material, present it correctly and check it. Often such training is worse than none.
• Homework is constant conflict. Children do not want to do it, parents do not know how to motivate, joint activities lead to a dead end, and all this results in quarrels.

What's good about homework

The problem is not in the homework and not in its quantity. And in the fact that in the finished form, as it is now, it is absolutely useless, it only destroys time and health. You can get results from homework if you reconsider the approach to it.

Homework is done in a comfortable environment, so at home you can find the answer to a difficult question and understand the material. Unless, of course, there is time and energy for this.

If an individual homework is developed for each student, then the student will be able to pull up topics that are not given to him, and develop strengths Homework as an important component of continuing education..

Brandi Young says:

Students work all day. At home, there are more important things to learn, too. You need to develop in different areas, what's the point of coming home and poking around in notebooks?

Do you think homework is necessary?