Argumentative Essay On Homework

“TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE; too easy or too hard; a spur to student achievement or student alienation; a marker of enlightened or lazy teaching; a builder of character or a degrader of self-esteem; too demanding or too dismissive of parents; a stimulus of national economic vigor or of behavioral conformity” (Gill & Schlossman, 2004). I can only imagine so many hear all of these complaints about homework each and every day ranging from teachers, parents, students and anyone connected to the educational system. Most likely there’s no perfect answer to homework problems. However, there has to be a better way than what students are dealing with on a daily basis currently.

“Clearly the debates about homework, begun well over a hundred years ago, are still with us today” (Kralovec, 2007). Some people feel that homework is beneficial to students and their education, and then others feel that the homework being assigned is too much. However, like many parents, I watch the homework coming home and it often seems that it’s more like busy work than anything.

Even worse sometimes it’s topics that weren’t covered during the day due to running out of time, so it’s sent home. As a parent I’ve always understood that the homework being sent home should be to reinforce what students are learning during the school day. It shouldn’t be something they’re

“Parents can be better advocates by, on the one hand, helping their children brainstorm solutions or approaches that will lead to solutions, and, on the other hand, talking with teachers about their child 's struggles with homework. True advocacy in such a situation might also involve encouraging the school to form school-wide discussion groups on the pros and cons of homework — dialogue that protects the integrity of a student 's work while pushing the school toward a thoughtful and reasonable program” (McDermott,