Early Childhood Education and homework

I recently witnessed my cousin helping his seven year-old son with his homework. It was a worksheet on the eclipse, essentially a fill in the blank.

My cousin preceded to give him the words and spell them without asking him to think about the answer or try to remember it.

Do teachers teach about a subject before sending homework home? Do parents not realize that's not learning when they hand it to them?

I'm not trying to be sarcastic or snide or ironic, I am just honestly distressed by what I saw.

P.S. To this day (as a 28-year-old) I still think homework is the absolutely stupidest concept. But that has nothing to do with my questions.

Submitted August 21, 2017 at 05:24PM by SpecimenBiscuit http://ift.tt/2wsrruZ