Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

Should middle school students be forced to complete homework? No, they should not! There are many obvious reasons in this essay that will prove homework isn’t needed and the evidence brought will change the minds of people who believe homework is necessary. The novel Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic book written by Ray Bradbury, and other sources will help to prove that middle schoolers homework. Homework is not necessary or beneficial to middle school students for three specific reasons: 1) it uses up time that should be spent with family, helping the community, playing sports, or just being a kid; 2) homework does not make or break a student's performance in school; 3) even though it is debatable that homework can improve academic achievement,

For instance, Robert Roy Britt States, “A comprehensive review of academic performance around the world gives bad remarks to excessive homework.” in his article “Too Much Homework = Lower Test Scores”. According to studies done by David Baker and Gerald LeTendre, countries that assign a profusion of homework such as Thailand, Greece, and Iran score low and the US may do just as much or more, but only for the international average, yet countries like Denmark and Japan that assign minimal to no homework have students who score high.That evidence highlights the fact that not just individual schools, but whole countries are finding that when a teacher assigns more and more homework their students won't score as high while teachers who assign little to no homework end up with students who score really high as the majority. Also to illustrate this idea Ray Bradbury states in his work Fahrenheit 451, “This age thinks better of a gilded fool than a threadbare saint wisdom’s school.” In this quote, Bradbury compares a gilded fool and a threadbare saint and just like the society today, people look at the ones who look good or what the models do, but they can be wrong. Just like with person type, doing homework will get a student as far as a gilded fool will get while someone who doesn't do homework with complete many great things because they aren't foolish and use wisdom to see that homework is pointless. The evidence from the studies done by David Baker and Gerald Letendre and the quote from Fahrenheit 451 is enough to prove that homework doesn't improve students’ grades, and society looks at the people who do homework and think they are great even though they're wasting their