Sadie Muncey
Mrs. Maichael Macey
ELA 9H
19 December, 2016
Banning Weekend Homework
Imagine going back after a nice winter break. All calm and relaxed, you sit in your first period class. The teacher starts talking about the subjects that were taught before break. None of them are coming back and you have to relearn all of them. No homework was done over the break and it is negatively affecting the learning process. Homework has many nonacademic benefits. It is crucial in college and no school could ever get through the whole curriculum that is planned for the year. Homework should not be banned on the weekends and breaks. Homework is helping kids learn valuable life lessons. According to research, "Until the mid-1970s, homework was viewed as an example of the excessive pressure on students to achieve” (Cooper et al. 1998). This is saying that homework helps teach kids that a little bit of stress is helpful and it helps them achieve
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Well, many researchers teach that to finish your homework efficiently you have to “have an outline or a system” (Kelly). Plan out what homework you need to finish. Have a quiet place to study with no distractions. It has been researched that the best place to study is a table near a computer just incase research is needed. It is mentioned that it is helpful to do your homework at the same time everyday and have a routine that gets followed. (Kelly). If this is followed, attention issues will no longer be a problem or an excuse to why homework is not getting done. Now imagine walking into school on the first day back refreshed and knowing everything that was taught after break because of the homework assigned over the break. Homework over the weekend has benefits that don’t relate to school. Homework is useful in college. Schools couldn’t get through their whole curriculum if it isn’t assigned. Homework should not be banned over the
The first reason that homework is not helpful is that it limits students’ free time. Students look forward to school ending and being able to relax and enjoy themselves. As the seven hours counts down, they have the afternoon and evening to wait for. However, if they have homework that night, all of their plans are ruined. For all of the work that students do each day, they deserve time to relax. No matter what work students get, it’s really bad. It forces them to work longer, and possibly through the night, which leads me to my next point.
All schools in the United States should make homework optional. In today's education system every student is required to go to school from ages starting from 5 up until he/she is 17 or 18. We teach all of our students that there is no way around hard work and if you want to make a living you must do what your told, and that is going to school, getting good grades, and potentially going to college and finding a job. This is unquestionable, whether a student agrees with it or not this will never change, but this is not the disputed point.
After a long day of school, students are tired, stressed, and overworked. This is often something that is ignored when it comes to students of all ages. Homework provides a heavy load that can add additional stress and time on a student’s shoulders. Schools should be making sure that students are receiving enough work throughout the day, to make sure kids do not have the worry of homework when school is over. Students who receive lots of homework, may not have enough time in the evenings to be around family, friends and enjoy the rest of their day.
Castle View High School, although some teachers,students,and parents say that homework is something that every student should do and should be a necessity, there should actually be less homework for students so their brains don’t get hot wired. The first reason is that students tend to improve if they spend at least 2-3 hours of doing homework. Students don’t want to spend 2-3 hours of homework after a long day of school, that can be exhausting to them and their brains. Doing homework very little, improves elementary and middle schoolers, homework mostly only helps improve high school students. Another reason is, teachers like students to continue working on the lessons that were taught, to be continued at home. We’ve decided ahead of time
In my opinion, homework is very lengthy and over-done. Some teachers give multiple pages or packets of homework each night. My argument is not that homework should disappear completely, but that there should be a limit to how much a teacher gives per week. In other words, the homework should be shorter. The article The Trouble With Homework by Anne Murphy Paul says that most homework is “busy work”. This means that teachers constantly give homework just to keep the students busy, when it actually doesn’t benefit the student whatsoever.
The first reason students should not be given homework is that with extra curricular activities like sports or clubs, there is no time for homework. One may have to wake up at 5:30, go to school until 2:55, then go to practice until 7:30. Then they must eat, do homework, and shower. By the time everything is done, it is 10:00. The student would jump into bed and fall asleep then repeat the process over and over. With this schedule the student would be exhausted and not able to focus. By getting rid of homework students would get much more
Sometimes our parents have no time to help us because they have their jobs. Then if we can’t get any help it’s going to be either a late grade or an F because we can’t get a good grade without a complete assignment. Our parents could also have a goodnight sleep without having to worry about us failing their classes because of homework. Teachers will also gain out of no homework because they don’t have to deal with grading messy handwriting and awful grammar. They don’t have to stay up however long it takes just to grade all the papers their students. It’s especially hard for middle school teachers and up because there are so many kids and so many different classes. Teachers can go anywhere they want if their lesson plan is finished for the next day if there is no homework. They won’t have to deal with angry kids, teens and yelling at them if they’re failing school because of homework. Homework is keeping everyone up.
I believe that we should not have homework by Christmas break because we need a break from homework we get good grades, We try are best all the time. You will agree with me after you read my essay.
Daily homework is a constant trouble with students all over the world. As a student, I am constantly struggling to finish all of my daily homework in time, especially in high school, where a late grade is a zero in the grade book for most teachers. This means that I am constantly in a lake of stress all the time. For many students this is true, so we should get rid of daily homework to relieve stress, provide more sleep, and to make time and room for tests, projects, papers, and other things.
Another reason banning homework is engaging families together more.;abc news says “we want them to engage with their families.to elaborate this means schools want kids to go home and spend time with them.the effect is that families don't hangout more they would spread apart.summarizing engaging with family more really brings family together.
Homework should be banned from all schools across America. Homework stresses kids out and leaves them frustrated. It decreases the amount of time being spent with family. It lessens their time of being active. Homework is supposed to help kids, but most of the time it is hurting them. Less than 1% of students say that homework is not a stressor which leaves more than 99% of students being stressed out about their homework.
However, I still believe that the school should stop homework from being assigned and this is why. In source 3 "Down with Homework", it reads that studies show how homework isn't the cause of a higher grade score or academics of a student. This is because there is no support that homework helps with students of a small age.
Kids shouldn't have homework. Kids have stuff to do like sports, spending time with family and working. Instead of doing 6 or so hours of homework every night. “homework came in behind not only socializing but also exercise or sports as well as working for pay.” (Gazette,par. 24) I agree because some students have to rush to get their homework done at lunch or before school because they either have sports or have to go to work everyday.
Students, parents, teachers, administrators and other interested parties all seem to have strong and different feelings towards homework. Students complain that they have too much homework to complete outside of the hours they already attended classes. Students feel that they have personal lives to live and blow off homework while some parents and teachers believe that homework is the key to passing classes and preparation for college. This leads to teachers feeling pressured to push their students to succeed and this can easily get carried away. Parents and school systems still often discuss the topic of homework today. Should homework in school systems be stopped?
So, my first reason why I hate the rule homework is that it has to be turned in the next day. Occasionally, we get the whole week to do homework for something but that is normally for essays and paragraphs. I think we should at least have the whole week to do every assignment. The second reason I hate the rule homework is that some grades are not what you feel like you worked