Do stacks of homework really help students learn or just overwhelm them? According to scholastic.com “A long-term national survey discovered that the proportion of six- to eight-year-old children who reported having homework on a given day had climbed from 34 percent in 1981 to 64 percent in 2002, and the weekly time they spent studying at home more than doubled.” A big portion of students get bad grades because their homework is not done. The reason behind that is not because students are lazy, it is because they do not have time to finish it. An abundance of homework can prevent students from going to after school activities; like learning outside of school, playing sports, spending time with their family, or even have hobbies that they do in their free time which they don't have. A lot of homework does not help students, it only affects them.
Having less homework has been a debate for a while. Psychcentral.com looks at each side of the argument and says:
“Homework can indeed provide preparation, practice, and reinforcement for lessons. Homework can help kids learn important life skills like organization, time management, and how to use resources. It’s also true that homework can be busy work, a reinforcer of mistakes, and stressful. Continual failure with homework, like continual failure during school hours, lowers self-esteem and makes it less and less likely that a kid will be successful. When homework becomes a nightly battle, it can damage parent-child relationships.”
One side of the argument is that students should have a lot of homework, because it gives them more information, and practice what they learned in school, and also keeps them busy and not be “wasting” their time watching T.V., play video games, etc… The other ...
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...o plays a part in sports because the more family members in the family play sports the more each family member will appreciate one another. It will make the family get closer to each other too by going to games and encouraging each other. Sports is only one out of the many reasons, there should be less homework.
The solution is to balance out the time and a method that was suggested by Factual Facts, “All children and adults too, should adopt an 8-8-8 circadian rhythm to life where eight hours work, eight hours play and eight hours rest (sleep)...” If students get around two homework assignments per day they will be able to get the practice they need and have extra time to relax, play a sport read a book or whatever pleases them. As long as they pick something that will make them healthier, smarter, and relaxed; the chance of depression and stress becomes reduced.
A article by Annie Murphy Paul called The ´´Trouble With Homework´´ talks about how homework is like a double shift for High School, Middle School, or College School students as their first shift is 7-9 hours in school per day. The trouble with homework is that students have other things to do after school like sports,hobbies, or a job that they have to attend to after school. Some students also want to just relax after school and have a good time with friends or family and homework is affecting them because they always worry about it and can't do things they want to because they have to finish it. One mother said ´´School for [my son] is work´´ as she is referring that when her son comes home he has to work another 1-5 on his homework and
The amount of homework assigned has dramatically increased over the past few years. With new state standards and standardized testings, teachers are beginning to put more pressure on children. They are being sent home with six page packets and vocabulary words that are due the next day. Most children do not have the time or help to complete this much homework. Alfie Kohn’s The Truth About Homework states “Homework continues to be assigned - in ever greater quantities - despite the absence of evidence that it is necessary or even helpful in most cases.” Not only is all of this homework unnecessary, but it can have negative effects on the children as well.
Have you ever wanted to just shred up your homework or throw it out the window and have no consequences? Kids are assigned daily homework from the time they start kindergarten at the ripe young age of five. Is it really necessary? Does it even help better learning or even higher test scores? The amount of homework we do wastes time, money, paper, and trees because it’s practically the exact same thing we did in class that day. Homework causes kid’s and teen’s frustration, tiredness, little time for other activities and possibly even a loss of interest in their education. It also keeps everyone up; it has kids and teens staying up until they finish it, the parents trying to help them and the teachers grading it. So, I think that homework is a waste and kids and teens should choose whether they want to do their homework for extra credit and practice or not.
I strongly believe that students should not be assigned homework or just the bare minimum, teachers do not sometimes comprehend that students are enrolled in six different classes that are each give it at least an hour of homework. Studies have shown that 80 percent say they frequently or sometimes experience daily stress, 34 percent have felt depressed at some point in the past three months, 13 percent have been diagnosed with a mental health condition such as an anxiety disorder or depression, 9 percent have seriously considered suicide in the past year.So if a teenager is at school for roughly 8 hours, and they are doing homework for six or more hours, and they need at least about nine hours of sleep for their developing brains, and they may have 0 to 1 for other activities like eating, bathing, excersing, socializing (Which is actually incredibly for emotional, mental, and psychical health, as well as the development of skills vital to their future career and having healthy romantic relationships among other things), religious, activities, hobbies, extra curriculars,medical care of any kind, chores (also a skill/ habit development
Thirdly, is that excessive amounts of homework can take many hours to do and make students deprived of sleep. To start off, homework does not impact students’ academic performances and instead gives stress to students and parents. If homework does not help out students then what reason is there to do it. According to the article, “homework does not benefit children’s grades and is even detrimental to their attitude about school, their grades, their self confidence, their social skills, and their quality of life.” Homework also stresses out students and parents because it takes up so much time of the day for students.
The discussion that homework should or should not be given is a increasingly discussed topic. Homework is relevant for students because it benefits those who take the time to do it, it allows the students to have more time on their assignments without taking up important class time, and homework has changed over the years, allowing it to develop into something new for students. Homework can have several benefits, but only for those who take the time to do it. The National School Board Association Center for Public Education conducted a study which concluded that “students who don't do their homework will not see any increase in their achievement in school,” so what about those who do their homework? Even though many studies fuel the anti-homework crowd, many other studies show that students who don't do their homework will see no improvements or benefits, but those who do are a lot more likely to experience those benefits.
One reason why we shouldn’t have homework in school is that homework doesn’t help test scores. Although an hour or two of homework per week won’t impact anything, hours of homework each night will lower students’ test scores. A study from the University of Oviedo in Spain surveyed homework habits of 7,725 kids, and children with 100 minutes of homework a day or more, test scores start to decline. Previous research from the University of Oviedo also states that too much homework leads to higher stress and health problems. No one wants to see stressed out kids, people want to see strong and healthy children.
My second reason why homework is not beneficial to students is that it takes away from family time and extracurricular activities. An article by NBC News states that ¨Homework takes away from family time and does not improve academic performance. ¨ Also Robert Marzano stated that ¨too much homework harms student´s health and family time
Natalie Wolchover says,”Inundating children with hours of homework each night is detrimental, the research suggests, while an hour or two per week usually doesn't impact test scores one way or the other. However, homework only bolsters students' academic performance during their last three years of grade school. ”This supports the claim Too Much Homework Is Bad For Kids because less homework makes kids not feel
Homework cuts into everyone’s out of school life and they never have time to relax after school. I believe that students have way too much pressure put on them even without the homework. Kids have an average of 3 hours of homework each night and they don’t really have time to do outside of school activities like they used to do before teachers started giving them all the extra homework. Also, they don’t have time for social life and they tend to be more emotional after homework. All kids should be able to go outside after they’re done with school and get some fresh air.
The idea that homework plays a vital role in the success of all students is false, for homework is not for everyone and too much homework is not beneficial. Teachers should limit the amount of homework given to the students based on the needs of each students. Students should not have an excessive amount of homework due to stress, social issues, and the need for balance between life inside and outside of school. First and foremost, too much homework leads to stress and anxiety. Staring at a book or computer screen for hours trying to figure out a math
The opposing claim is that students should have more homework because it helps them gain confidence that they have a bright future. “Students need to have more homework as if it were acting like a shield for their educational curriculum”. A good part of the argument is that it help the students get ready for anything that gets in there way so that they are ready to go to middle school! I do not think that they should have as much homework as given, although the counterclaim has a good point. Expecting kids to complete homework on time and do it correctly by the next morning could be too challenging for some
In conclusion, homework is a waste of time. Time that can be better spent is with family and having fun participating in extracurricular activities. Eliminating homework allows students the reward of free time and the invaluable time spent with family. Homework creates unnecessary stress and strain for parents and students alike. Also, homework allows teachers to pawn off their own teaching responsibilities to students and parents with hours of homework. Homework is not beneficial and it should be banned for students Kindergarten thru 8th grade.
Seven hours of homework per week are too much for a student to handle, considering that students are supposed to sleep eight hours a day, go to school, and have things to do outside of school. Too much homework is known to give students stress. Also, too much homework has been found to stop a student’s motivation to learn because a student may become overwhelmed. Many people believe homework is a positive exercise to practice, but in my opinion homework has more negative effects than positive effects.
Although homework may seem like drudgery, the hard work that is put into homework may pay off in the long run. In the article, “Does homework really work for students?” Jacqueline Carey, the mother of seventh grade student Micah Carey, stated that “homework gives [students] a good foundation for when they move on further in school” (Johnson). Not only that, but according to Donyall Dickey, principal at Murray Hill Middle School, “if students do not acquire things in class, they will acquire them through homework” (Johnson). As we can see, homework helps and prepares us for higher grade levels while in primary school that can possibly prepare us for college.