Students know whether or not their teacher looks at their homework or just slaps a check on it and tosses it in a pile. This passive-aggressive behavior usually goes away when students are allowed to be responsible for their own homework (hint, hint). What do you do when you feel that your every move is controlled by others? You find something that you can control- like turning in homework. how could homework compete with all of that? There is also an entire universe inside each student's head: thinking about their latest crush, lunch, recess, the prom, beating the score on a video games, problems at home. Things are going on in class that are much more interesting than what the teacher is saying. I teach my own children that their homework is not finished until it is put away in their homework folder, AND the homework folder is put away in their backpack, AND the backpack is put by the back door. There are many students that would turn in their homework- if they knew where it was. I suppose a report card full of 'Fs' looks much better? This kind of thinking often becomes more prevalent in middle and high school. Or, rather, they don't want to look "uncool" by seeming to care about studying and doing homework. WHY STUDENTS COMPLETE HOMEWORK BUT DON'T TURN IT IN My students couldn't explain their thinking to me, and parents kept asking, so I decided to do some research. Why forgo playing or talking on the phone or watching TV- for nothing? Why do homework and then not get the credit? How could a student bear the thought of completed homework sitting at home or- even worse- in his backpack? I just didn't get it! Homework takes up precious time if you're doing homework, you're not doing something else. Exasperated parents often ask me, "Why does my son (or daughter) do his homework and then not turn it in?" These understandably frustrated and confused parents are looking to me for answers, but I must admit that for years, I could not help them.
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