Argument Against Homework

Argument Essay

Have you ever felt that your homework was just to take up your time after school? Almost like the teachers want to give you irrelevant work, that doesn't help with your education whatsoever. In this essay I will tell you why I am against homework and the evidence that supports it.

To start off, homework can have very negative effects on the student that receives it. For example, the chair of educational administration for Penn state, Gerald Letendre, said that even thirty minutes of homework a night can have a very big negative effect. Including sleep disruption, stress, and bad physical effects on the body. Which is detrimental to students well being and health. Also,according to the case for and against homework marzano says that homework has a big negative effect on a families overall happiness. Including but not limited to, less time spent together, more stress with parents trying to help, and family communication. This all shows that homework has very detrimental effect on a students physical and mental health, and teachers should start contemplating whether homework is actually good.

Secondly, homework itself does not improve a students achievement as much as you would think. For example, according to Robert Britt, kids in Japan have

For example, according to professor Harris Cooper, who studies if homework is a reliable tool for education at Duke University says that most students who have too much homework will study until dawn. But there is no academic benefit beyond two hours. Plus, according to Marzano, most teachers produce and assign ill structured homework resulting in lower test scores. This all shows that even though schools can academically help students during school hours they are not well trained enough to assign or create