Business NationallyStudents nowadays, I believe have it made. It’s easy, its old work from years ago and it’s so easy that the children are googling the answers. I’ve helped my son with his homework, and I didn’t understand it. I asked around at first, and then I googled the question, and I got the correct answer. Makes it look as if the teacher isn’t teaching anything. I agree with the teacher in the article. It’s giving students less time to go over their homework thoroughly and study. They have technology to answer it for them. Some teachers care about the future of the students, while some don’t. I know as a parent, I want to know what type of education my children are getting, and how they are being taught it. In school now, technology really has taken over, no more textbooks, now students are being taught by power point presentations, or through e-books. I hate e-books. I’m more of a hands on type person. I like to have that one-on-one relationship with my teacher, to the point where he or she can tell me what I’m doing wrong, and or how I could fix it to get it right. Even for papers, technology can help them with that now. Individual students dont compose complete papers of their own (Glen, 2011). Donald Bacon stated that “students divided up the tasks in ways they felt comfortable with. The math whiz would do the statistical work, the English minor drafted the analysis. Then there’s the most common complaint about groups: Some shoulder all the work, the rest do nothing” (Glen, 2011). Students aren’t as excited about learning today, then they were years ago. Students have stated that they don’t spend much time studying for test. National studies have consistently found that undergraduate business students spend fewer hours studying than students in others majors do (Glen, 2011).
The Problem
According to a recent report (Baum, 2012) by an international organisation that investigates the effects of work by school workers, the school working hours for high school students in Germany have doubled in a decade, compared to a previous decade (Baum, 2013b). Work week is often an important factor in the decision making of school students. It is likely that there are more children waiting hours for work than for a job. However, there are many other factors which cause students’ schedules to change when they work. And these factors are often influenced by work habits, education, family circumstances (Mulholland, 2011), career decisions, work environments, education level (Chen, 2000), job performance through age 21, and other factors, including the amount of money the workers have in the bank. Furthermore, school students are often more likely to work for less paid jobs, like janitorial jobs, in-work support jobs, or working longer than 24 hours per week, as opposed to a 24-hour job like a teacher or a general-educational job (Elderlyman, 2011). To combat this, teachers must start training and building a reputation as a school that is effective in helping students succeed. As a result, school principals often leave work hours at home or in school, while teachers are hired for work and do not work at night.
Some schools in the US employ an overtime system. In their study in the UK between 1990 to 2005 teachers were hired to do the equivalent of 1.3 hours per week (Gill, 2011). In a survey of 2,000 UK primary school children, one in four school children employed in their district worked over the same time period. Of the 696 teachers who were hired (9.3%), only 5 had reported they did at least 1 hour of overtime a week (Klein and Karmel, 2003). One in five teachers reported that it was a stressful job to have to work as hard as one might. The more hours for which overtime is paid, the higher the risk of injury to employees, workers who are employed by employers other than schools where they work, and their teachers (Elderlyman, 2011).
In Australia, over a decade ago, almost all school children in primary school who were not employed at home worked on Friday nights. That was the working overtime system. Many schools had one or more nights off. This has increased the number of paid vacation days, but the majority – over the course of the school year – are paid holiday working time. Thus, in addition to getting less pay than a school worker, parents and supervisors can also benefit from shorter working hours. And one in twelve children are working late for work. Thus, after taking this into account when considering the cost and benefits of the