Homework is the reason I fail.
I am a high school junior, every day I get 12+ pages of homework minimum. Because I cannot possibly do all of this and help around the house as I am the only one able to do so, and therefore I have no time to study my material and therefore my test grades suffer as a result.
Homework is like slavery.
It's basically forcing students to go home after a stressful day of school and activities and do pointless homework. Teachers should be teaching these things in class, not making the students learn it themselves. It's preventing children from leading balanced lifestyles, with a healthy amount of sleep and activities to keep them fit and active. How is a student supposed to do 3 to 4 hours of homework, study for a plethora of tests and quizzes, play sports, get involved in the community, eat food with nutritional value, and get an adequate amount of sleep, all in one day? That's not possible. The amount of stress homework causes kids is ridiculous, especially when they're already under so much pressure to get into a good college and do well in school, along with making friends and staying active. Homework is not necessary.
Homework should be banned.
Why Homework Is Bad
Are you a kid who hates homework!? Well I am one! Did you know that homework leads to bad grades and overwhelmed cranky kids? It can also lead to stressed out children that can throw fits. Also, homework gives less time for a kid to be a kid. There should be no homework for all children. No homework is even good for teachers because they don’t need to correct it because they already have enough to correct
In some schools children can get homework as early as kindergarten, or by the third grade. Homework has been annoying many children by the fourth grade. At elementary school, especially, this is a bad idea because many young students are known for having very short attention spans. They have already been forced to sit and learn for approximately 6 1/2 hours at school, with usually only 2 short recess breaks and lunch and they are also very known to like to talk and chat a lot.
By the time school is out, the kids just want to go home, relax, and be who they are ! It also affects families because Homework trouble = school trouble = family trouble. It is the rare for a child to enjoy homework F.Y.I. .For some students they can be stressed out when they get home and throw fits and for all students they have been exercising their brains at school all day long and at home they are supposed to relax their brain for the next day at school, and if you are not remembering good blame it on the teacher for putting the subject at the wrong time when the students are tired (after recess etc.) or the teacher is not explaining it good.
Some teachers do not answer a students question which would of helped the student to learn better and teachers always used to say to me “Learning is fun!” well I think now math and school now is a lot harder than in the 70’s and 80’s and put for an example a 10 year old in fifth grade with 6 1/2 hours of school and 45-50 minutes of homework and remember 2013 math is A LOT harder than 80’s and 70’s math so do you think you would be having fun? and I also want to state that homework causes cases of kids hating school (like me). So that concludes the end of my persuasive essay top three reasons homework is bad: overwhelming, interference and dislike.
One country named Finland has already fixed their school system there is no homework there is recess for 75 minutes, 9-17 students per class and no tests until you are 16 years old.Homework should be banned because it just isn't useful and wastes time.
Homework is pointless because kids do enough work in school and they don't need more. When they come home they want to chill out, hang out with friends, or do something. Kids are in school for 8 hours a day doing work, other than lunch and recess. Homework is not relevant for kids. I did a survey at school at resource, and a majority of kids say that homework should be banned in school because it is stressful and they procrastinate until the last second. There is no point in homework. It takes away from spending time with family. According to the text with research 'Homework Should be Banned,' “Schools has increased from 9 to 3 with 1 ½ hour of recess and lunch to 8:40 to 3:15 with only 30 minutes of lunch and recess.” This quote shows that too much is just too much homework. Also, another reason is that, according to research, some of the smartest countries like Finland and Japan don’t have homework. We can be just as smart as them without homework. This shows that homework has no academic benefits for grades.
It hinders learning which is obviously a bad thing.
Undoubtedly, homework hinders learning. There are only 2 outcomes possible when doing homework:
A) You do the homework, proving you were able to do it in the first place and the work was therefore unnecessary.
B) You do not do the homework because you were unable, and therefore did not learn anything.
Even besides these points, there are other reasons why homework hinders learning. For example, homework has to be corrected, wasting valuable class time which could be spent teaching new skills. It is an unnecessary burden on children which causes great stress, and actively teaches them to hate learning. Learning has to be an enjoyable experience to be effective, and if children grow to hate a subject because of the homework they receive, it will mean they learn much less in class. Stress can also affect sleep and eating patterns, thus resulting in lower scores in exams. I could go on forever, there are literally no benefits to homework. Work is for work related-things, home is where you can relax. This line should not be blurred.I am a teacher, and Yes!!
Yes! Ban homework.. As part of our school policy, homework must be given out, and students should complete 30minutes of homework,, per night! I think this is too much as many students have other commitments.
Sport practices, jobs to do around home, looking after siblings, at after school care etc
It is a hassle for the teacher to mark/grade and make up something that is remotely fun,and enjoyable for the children to doPosted by: yvette111As a student, I think it should be banned.
As a student, I don't get home from school until 4:30 or 5:00 and I am doing homework sometimes until 8:30 almost every night. It is very stressful when you have seven classes a day and homework in every single class; it becomes very overwhelming. On top of that, I have to get up every morning at 5:30 am just to catch my buss at 6:40. Many mornings are very hard for me because of lack of sleep from the night before staying up doing homework and studying for two or three tests the next day.
If they banned homework, test scores might improve because then students would have more time to study and be prepared than if we have five different subjects to do on top of studying for a test the next day.Homework should be banned to reduce student stress.
Homework causes stress in many students. Homework takes time, and it keeps students up late at night getting the work done. The loss of sleep makes it hard to concentrate during class because students are so tired.
I once stayed up until midnight and wound up very tired when morning arrived. It was hard to focus on my lessons. As a student,I think sleep is more important than doing homework. Students study during the day at schools and academies,so there is no reason that we have to get homework.
Many schools have a one-hour rule, but with multiple classes and each teacher assigning one hour of homework, you end up with hours of work to do at home. Students in advanced levels get even more work than the students in basic classes.
Another reason is that the noise around us. If you have a room of your own, you don't have to worry about this problem. I don't have my own room. I have to do my homework in the study. When I'm working, my mom is busy printing things out. It's annoying and makes it hard for me to concentrate. I can't do my homework before I sleep. I have to complete my homework in the morning when she's not using the study, before I head for the academy. Getting it done in the morning means rushing. Usually, the answer are wrong because I didn't have time to really read the questions.
Students often think homework should be banned. I think so too.Homework wastes time
Homework is a serious waste of time, there are some benefits of homework but the negatives out-rule the benefits by a mile. Most teachers say homework helps responsibility and our knowledge but this is not true. I as student personally think that kids are responsible and organize ourselves better than our teachers at times. On a weekday, this is my usual agenda,
Wake up in the morning, Catch the bus, Get off at the correct stop, take a train, and walk 10 minutes to my school. I then have to go to the school office and drop off my phone, and my wallet. I then have to walk to my locker and get out my keys (if I forget them I have to walk to the Principles office which is quite far away and get the master key) and get out my books. I have to carry them to Homeroom and since I have a job as Office Monitor I have to collect any forms from the other kids and go all the way down to the General Office and drop them off. I then have to go to whatever room we have Period 1 in. Since I go on my own, I have to know where everything is and what room to go to, I cant just follow a classmate like most kids in my class do. If I am late that automatically means a 2 hour detention for me. Just my luck that my name is first on the roll call list. I do my work for that session and do the same until recess. At recess I go to the office, collect my money and buy myself lunch. I then have to survive another 3 sessions. I then catch the bus and go home so thats organized for you! I have written 300 words so Im done with my homework! My name is Anthony and I am 14 years old.It takes too much time.
I have not enough family time to spend playing games, opening presents, playing with my little sisters or to spend time with my mom or dad. I think homework takes too much time. I want more free time, less homework, and more time with my friends, my dog or outside with nature.
No, banning homework will never happen.
As much as students don't like to do homework, it isn't possible to ban it altogether. Students need to realize that the point of homework has nothing to do with teachers trying to make up for lost time or intentionally cutting into students' personal lives. The concept of homework prepares students on the concept of needing to put in overtime for jobs, whether white collar or blue. Yes, it sucks as a student, but banning it altogether is not a good way to go. If it WAS banned, would you like to add a month's worth of school days to the school year?
Sorry kids. That is NOT how the real world works.
One word. Practice. Homework aims to help us master certain skills. At least, that's the homework I've had to deal with. If there is no practice, then excellence will not be achieved. The way I comprehend homework as well is the preparation it can help you with when it comes to the real world. If gradually and in a proper manner I were to get used to being bombarded with work at home, I could virtually/theoretically prepare myself for future jobs.
Homework is a necessity.
Homework doesn't take all day; realistically you will have time for other things.
Homework allows practice for future endeavors, and teaches responsibility and organization skills.
Homework allows children to work at their own pace, without peer pressure.
Homework allows time to study for tests, and go over work that you did in class.
Homework is a necessity!We Need It
HI I am a middle school student and I am doing a report on why homework should NOT be banned.I think it shouldn't. It exercises our minds and shows what we have been doing while the teachers stand in front and teach.That Is why they call them Teachers. They are supposed to teach us something. We as student are here to learn. My teachers say show what you know not what your neighbor knows.Without it we would make some of us would make through school, get into college and have to stand there and say " I dun no how to do that." So that is why we need homework. From: a concerned middle schooler
Homework can be beneficial - T and J
-Keeping homework can raise your grade
-Classes don't give teachers enough time
-Homework can drive the lesson home (drill it into kids heads)
-Helps learn study habits
-Can keep ideas fresh for day
-Homework is good but too much is bad
-Kids learn to be flexible with their schedules
-Practice makes perfect
-Better education means a better jobHomework Is Good People!
Homework is a way for you to practice what you are learning. If you didn't have homework, you would have to stay in school until you finished your practice, and since everyone works at different rates, you'd be there until the slowest people finally caught on.
Nobody likes practicing things - musicians get bored practicing scales, athletes get bored practicing their moves, and students get bored practicing their learning skills. However, practice does make perfect, and the more you work on your homework problems, the better you get at the skills you will need when you get out of school.
Some students think the teachers are "mean" for giving homework, but think about it - you have ONE assignment to do for that teacher - the teacher then has to read every single paper from every student and give it a grade. Which one of you has more work to do?
Doing homework will not make you "smarter," but it will teach you how to use the "smarts" that you have in your brain already - doing homework makes you faster and better at doing other things.
Homework allows students to practice the skills they learn during school. This helps the student retain the knowledge gained during the day rather than school being a pointless waste of time because nothing was learned or remembered.Homework teaches us Responsiblity
Homework teaches children to be responsible and if they forget it, they will have to face their own trouble (please excuse me for my spellings.)and that will teach them to be responsible in their day to day life. Homework makes us think out of the box,if given a challenge this will push us to the limits or beyond.
Posted by: firebull1300No, it should not be banned completely
Homework is good for students in small amounts I do agree that if your getting 5 or 6 pages per night per subject it does get stressful and annoying but if you are only getting 1 or 2 and don't do it you are being lazy. I believe that if it was banned you would see a rise in the number of students failing their tests.
Lessen the heavy load.
I don't think homework should be banned but lessened. It is to much. Sometimes we have things to do that is more important. We should only have to do 5 minutes for each grade.Ex 3rd grade 15 min 9th grade 45 min. We need us time but we also need work time but not too much work time. Research shows that it is healthy to have time for our selves. All of you who don't want home work it is understood. No one likes to work but it is important for our self management time management. My thinking is that you are looking at it the wrong way, think of homework like something fun or interesting.
It sucks but...
It is a pain, but would you rather be working at McDonalds for 7.50 an hour, or 17.90 at a job that gives you health care, benefits and raises? It is a pain, I agree, but its necessary. I have a friend who dropped out because he "didn't need this B!@##$$%%! Now he is homeless, and has an addiction. So just do your homework, taxpayers cant handle anymore homeless dropouts.
Are you a kid who hates homework!? Well I am one! Did you know that homework leads to bad grades and overwhelmed cranky kids? It can also lead to stressed out children that can throw fits. Also, homework gives less time for a kid to be a kid. There should be no homework for all children. No homework is even good for teachers because they don’t need to correct it because they already have enough to correct
In some schools children can get homework as early as kindergarten, or by the third grade. Homework has been annoying many children by the fourth grade. At elementary school, especially, this is a bad idea because many young students are known for having very short attention spans. They have already been forced to sit and learn for approximately 6 1/2 hours at school, with usually only 2 short recess breaks and lunch and they are also very known to like to talk and chat a lot.
By the time school is out, the kids just want to go home, relax, and be who they are ! It also affects families because Homework trouble = school trouble = family trouble. It is the rare for a child to enjoy homework F.Y.I. .For some students they can be stressed out when they get home and throw fits and for all students they have been exercising their brains at school all day long and at home they are supposed to relax their brain for the next day at school, and if you are not remembering good blame it on the teacher for putting the subject at the wrong time when the students are tired (after recess etc.) or the teacher is not explaining it good.
Some teachers do not answer a students question which would of helped the student to learn better and teachers always used to say to me “Learning is fun!” well I think now math and school now is a lot harder than in the 70’s and 80’s and put for an example a 10 year old in fifth grade with 6 1/2 hours of school and 45-50 minutes of homework and remember 2013 math is A LOT harder than 80’s and 70’s math so do you think you would be having fun? And I also want to state that homework causes cases of kids hating school (like me). So that concludes the end of my persuasive essay top three reasons homework is bad: overwhelming, interference and dislike.
One country named Finland has already fixed their school system there is no homework there is recess for 75 minutes, 9-17 students per class and no tests until you are 16 years old.
Who agrees?
Whether, its a 15 minute homework to a 5 hour homeowork, it just isnt fair because some people have advantages at home, e.g. brothers and sisters whereas some dont.
It also should be banned because it causes student stress, futhermore, Finland doesnt have homework and they still have good students. This proofs homework is nesecarry and doesnt mean it helps us.
Thank you.
Homework teaches you:
-To look at the back of the text book for the answers
-That it is more important than your family and friends
-to hate school
-to solve problems only from a single perspective
A lot of the tactics used for teaching in school are bad in general. Not just the subjects, but the process of things overall. School was boring enough that you sat all day in a classroom. It isn't better that you have to take it home with you. I mean think about a typical school day:
6:30 --> Wake up and get ready for the day
7:30 --> Get to school and sit down all day listening and writing
2:30 --> Get on school bus
3:00 --> Finally arrive at home
5:00 --> Spend two hours doing homework (not necessarily because it is hard, but because it is time consuming)
5:30 --> Eat dinner
5:30 to 10:30 is free time!
10:30 --> Get in bed and go to sleep (healthy amount of sleep for average functioning human being is 8 hours)
This is even worse when you have an extra curricular activity which most students do. So for the average person that is about 2 to 3 hours of free time. Homework takes a big chunk out of that.
I can specifically remember times where I knew all the answers in a classroom, but the homework took forever anyway. Take math for example. I'd learn it in the class and already know how to do it. Then we'd get sent home to do 1 and a half chapters of math. The next day usually math homework was graded on whether you did it or not. How you performed didn't matter. This in itself is stupid, because then students just write down random crap to make it look like they worked. (Just one example of a horrible teaching method in school).
History class is another example. When studying for a test teachers give you a sheet where you have to look up in the book to fill in the blanks... How is that useful? What kids end up doing is looking through the book to find the keyword and copy it down. Just filler garbage. They aren't even paying attention to what they are writing down. They won't study it until later. You waste so much time looking for the answers when the obvious solution is to give the sheet with the answers on it and say study these. That way the student can better spend his/her time building flash cards or something to help remember things.
There is no reason to do the "fill in the blank" thing when studying for a test. It is obvious this does nothing, but we still do it. People are naturally this way though. We see a problem and acknowledge it, but rarely is anything ever done about it.
Another thing is school/homework doesn't allow you to get enough exercise which teaches laziness and does a horrible job at teaching things that matter in life. Nutrition is pretty important, but the emphasis that was taught in that class was pretty low. Who cares how many jewels are in a calorie. I just want to know what positive and negative sides certain foods with vitamin A do for you.
School is so controlling of your life that you barely have time and learn to be told what to do. Once you are on your own you are left thinking "now what?" All this time you've been told what to do and now you are on your own. You expect someone or something to guide you into what to do next, but you are lost. The world doesn't look out for you, because everyone else is too busy looking out for themselves.
One last note. I learned more about HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, in a single month studying on my own than probably 2 years spent at a college. I'm not going to lie people. A lot of that education stuff is just filled with filler stuff just to be there. It really is.
Sorry, this was a lot longer than I intended it to be. Rant over.
Here's the thing, i agree whole heartedly with you statements on the flaw in the grading system, and even on some of the reasons for homework. However, there is both good and bad homework. Good homework does not necessarily need to be hard, or take time. What i don't understand is the wish to BAN homework. I think it should just be REVISED. We need work that (1) is useful. Something that students see the use for, so as they understand WHY they do it. (2) Has at least a little challenge. Students, (such as myself) need to learn how to figure things out on their own. (3) repeats certain things. 1/2 of the arguments above whine about, "a already learned this" (while the other half complain that they don't want to, which is extremely lazy.) but repetition is important for memorization. I don't think anyone wants to show that they are so daft as to say that you can remember everything taught in class in a day! If you can, congrats, your a superhuman. Nobody has that memory power! The only real grounds for this argument is found in the grading system, where i would say, change that! Do not ban homework!
What? Free time? Ok, an average high schoolers free time consists of texting, squandering $ on a girlfriend, and watching tv! (i, for one do literally none of those things. I dont have any. And, yes, i have and love my life!)
As for the rest of your statement, did you even read mine? I said, "REVISED!" the school system is not ok how it is! However, WE NEED HOMEWORK! LIFE IS FULL OF HOMEWORK! I beg you, i implore you, DO NOT TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME!!!! I dont enjoy it, i hate it! BUT I NEED IT!!!! Im homeschooled, and if you remove homework, i will be on top of the world! LOGIC!!!! Think about the cause, an effect.
Cause. (they say its for the sake of family, but is it really? What do they do in the free time they already have? Over break? *COUGH!* phones, texting, *COUGH!*)
Effect. Heres where the picture gets ugly. Without homework, no-one will know how to solve problems ON THERE OWN! <- that, my friend, is the reason for homework! Aside from actually learning the facts, learning the skills, (such as research, formatting, structure) the real basis is LEARNING HOW TO FIND OUT ON YOUR OWN!!!! That will get you though life.
Many people are going to one side and to bann homework. I acctually am one of the top people in my class and i don't like homework.
It should be banned!
BTW, all of you little traitors are Donald Trump with different emails that he used to use to email his x's. Someone else 4 prez plz!!!
What is the point of doing assignments that have to be done at home and handed in to a flustered teacher who hands them back days later when the material is long forgotten?
Doesn’t homework help students get better marks? One study after another, Including the latest one from the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Is proof that it does nothing of the kind.
Not only is homework unhelpful, It’s harmful.
One mother of a 7-year-old girl was practically in tears when she was interviewed about her daughter, Who used to love school, Now hates it. Why? Because she is forced to do 120 minutes of homework assignments every day!
No wonder she hates school. She is seven, For heaven’s sake. The child gets up at 7:30 in the morning. She’s in school all day long. The bus picks her up at 3:45 to take her home. By the time she is dropped off, It’s nearly 5:00. That day is long enough. She should not be forced to work for another two hours!
Give her time to be a child, To spend quality time with her family, To have fun with her mom without arguing day in and day out. If she knows the work, There is no need to do more of it. If she does not understand, There’s no point in having her repeat her mistakes
When interviewed, Another parent said, “What are you talking about? I mean. . . We have to have homework. Otherwise, The kids won’t have structure and they will just come home and fool around. ”
Good. That’s exactly what they should be doing. They deal with structure from early in the morning until late in the afternoon. That’s enough structure for an adult, Much less a child.
It’s time to ‘fess up about homework. It is forced labor. Unpaid forced labor. Homework assignments provide almost no benefit and they cause unnecessary stress for the child and for the parent. Good teachers can get the job done in class. Those who can’t just assign more homework.
Some schools are finally pondering the possibility of eliminating weekend or holiday homework assignments. That’s too namby-pamby. Not good enough. It’s time to stop the addiction to homework cold turkey.
If a student wishes to review some of the work of the day on their own, Great. If the kids have to study for a test or exam — no problem. But those millions of hours of useless make-work homework assignments? They have caused misery enough.
Homework is cruel and unusual punishment. Banning it will improve the life of students, Parents and teachers in one fell swoop.
What will these kids do with all their new-found spare time? They will relax; they can have some fun; they can play outside; and spend time with their friends. Letting kids be kids is the right thing to do!
