Does anyone like having extra work after a long day? Well, since the beginning, when school became more of a right instead of a privilege, homework has been given, teachers assign it and students complete it. Since then, homework has been used in almost every school, everyday. Students and parents had never seriously questioned it. Now many parents and students are starting to question administrators and teachers over whether or not homework really is beneficial to students. Homework is not beneficial to students because there is little evidence showing a correlation between doing homework and doing better on tests, homework helps to diminish students’ enjoyment of learning, it forces them to have to give up other beneficial things to their …show more content…
When students are given a homework assignment it is usually meant to help them “practice” the concept that was taught in school. Giving homework does not help them practice because they either understand the concept and are doing extra work that they do not need to or they do not understand the concept and they are going to practice doing it the wrong way, and complete the assignment incorrectly (“Is Homework Beneficial”). Doing work the incorrect way will cause the human brain to learn the wrong habit of how to do the assignment. Another valid point is that knowing that they are completing the assignment the wrong way can cause stress and anxiety and confidence issues. Also, many of the homework assignments given these days are graded based on completion. This gives children the opportunity to just rush through it so that they can go outside or watch television or anything else that they want to do. This does not help students learn at all. Even when homework is graded based on accuracy, students still rush through to work on something else that they enjoy, which defeats the purpose of giving
One pro of homework is that it make up for the not enough time students go to school and learn. Even though teachers give students activities to do in class, giving them assignments to do at home can give them a better understanding on the subject. Advocates believe that giving students that extra time to solve problems is an important to their learning. Homework is also an effective way for students to learn discipline. Giving homework is one way of teaching young individuals and growing students to and put aside unimportant activities and getting their tasks done. Not giving students school work can lead to them being lazy. Another benefit is that parents can see
We all view the benefits of homework differently. Homework can have many effects but it’s not as helpful to everyone as one may think. It can prove to be more stressful than beneficial, can confuse you more than help you, and doesn’t 100% help standardized testing. People need to understand what homework really is and how beneficial it actually is. They need to understand that homework doesn’t always help and that it can prove to be less helpful than
An article titled 5 Reasons Why Homework Is Bad For Your Child by Peter Druker, gives 5 major reason why homework is negative for children. How school is an important aspect of children’s lives, but when they are given to many extra assignments it can increase stress levels, can be a burden, can be counterproductive, can become less important and can consume their free time. These can lead to sleep deprivation, unhealthy levels of
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
Although homework may be beneficial to some students, I think it doesn’t help with our education and needs to stop. To begin, is homework necessary? Australia did a study on homework inflicting kids’ learning. It wasn’t helpful for students in grades below 11th and 12th, yet it was beneficial towards upperclassmen in high school. A british study showed homework being beneficial to all students. Homework every night for 2-3 hours helped in english, math and science. Secondly, other than Britain, there is no evidence to demonstrate that homework is beneficial to students below the high school age. More homework isn’t correlated with children in elementary school. The only thing that shows up less positive attitude
It has been said that “with all the homework students start to think less creatively and they might lose the learning to try and avoid challenging tasks” (Kohn). The fact that homework is able to make the students lose what they are learning is perhaps the most important reason that is is not beneficial. Homework has been seen as a way to increase learning and practice what students are learning, but with too much homework it can defeat the purpose. Students are getting much more work that is harder, because the schools are receiving stricter standards from the government that they must follow. But “the main effect ‘of the drive for so-called higher standards in schools is that the children are too busy to think,’as said by John Holt in 1959” (Kohn). Students are not being able to think creatively, because they are tied to standards and homework. “For students to become lifelong learners and good people, we need to work with them rather than using techniques like rewards and punishments, which merely do things to them” as said by Alfie Kohn, author of the book The Schools our Children Deserve (Kohn). Students see large amounts of homework as a punishment, and as said by Alfie Kohn that “merely does things to them” (Kohn). Homework should not be given in amounts where it starts to be counterproductive, and is no longer helping the students learn or think
One side of the argument is that people believe that homework doesn’t help students. 4 in 10 parents say that most homework is just busy work. If you are wondering,not a single study has ever supported the folk wisdom that homework teachers good work habits or develops positive character traits such as self-discipline, responsibility or independence. Adults don’t see the pain there kids are in because of homework. The homework that the students get is driving them away from wanting to learn. The students are getting frustrated because of all the homework they have every night (Kohn).
Why should kids have homework? Some people believe homework is necessary it helps you practice and get ready for the next class, others believe homework isn’t necessary and it only causes stress and is boring. Students benefit from homework because it improves the parent/child relationship, allows them to learn knew things and communicate with teachers, and practice and understand knew material.
The general arguments given by teachers and some parents are that homework increases the overall grade averages, sharpens study habits, and helps students become more prepared for college work. Along with that, it helps students learn responsibility for life in the work field of the real work. Although these arguments are valid, there are arguments against homework as well. Homework causes students to be stressed out when there is too much to be done by a certain deadline and takes away the free time of students. Some of the work that students are assigned isn't relevant to what they are studying. Worst of all, it causes that struggling student to lose interest in the study of that subject ("Students and Homework"). While it does have negative outcomes, homework also has it's perks.
Firstly homework is not proven to be beneficial. Homework does not prove to be beneficial as teachers have monitored their students grades and have found that if children from kindergarten to year 7 get more than 30 minutes of homework, their grades can decrease as they spend more time on homework that won't help them. As well as grades homework can cause family tensions as well because parents may force their child to do
The skills developed while doing homework prepares the student for higher grade levels, and the workplace as they will be essential in their lives. It does this by making the work become more difficult gradually, and often gives a bigger workload as the student grows. Homework is designed to help you understand, further your knowledge and to prepare you for what it will be like in the future. The¬ Teacher Magazine writes that homework in primary school, doesn’t have as much impact as secondary school, and is used to prepare the student for higher grade levels, i.e. high school, university and the workplace. The South-Western Education Laboratory writes that homework has more benefits in secondary school, than in primary school and that primary school prepares the student for higher grade levels. As stated in the first point, one of the biggest benefits of homework is the sense of responsibility that you develop from doing it, which is a fantastic trait to have and is vital in life. This shows that homework is important and should be done by
Many students in school struggle to complete piles of homework assigned to them each night. Some wonder if homework is really critical to learning, and many wish homework wouldn’t exist at all. These people argue that homework is overwhelming and it takes away most of their free time at home and is just “busy work”. While some people may feel this way, I personally believe that homework is a key point of learning because it teaches time management and helps solidify what was learned during the day.
It is a well known fact that students of various ages and schools are assigned homework, although the motive for giving said homework may vary depending on the teacher. However, the debate about whether homework is helping or hindering education is at a stalemate. Stated simply, homework is work assigned by teachers that students should complete at home or any other non-school setting. Just how effective is homework in the long run? Is it just adding unnecessary stress to students without truly adding enough positivity to make the homework worth it? Although homework can seem burdensome, it undoubtedly solidifies concepts learned in class and aids in the development of timeless skills such as time management and accountability.
The debate on homework has come up once again because much research has shown that it’s not very effective. But first what is Homework? “At the beginning of the twentieth century the term homework… referred to labor done to pay in one’s home, and in particular to sewing and other manual work which filled the afternoons and evenings of many young children in large cities” (Homework Destroys Family Life). Homework was considered to be work the children did at home such as chores or actual job outside the home. Over time the term evolved when education became more important and child labor laws were passed to enforce children to focus on education instead of working. This debate is not anything new because this has come up in many centuries before.
Although adults and kids may say homework is good for kids it is argued that it can be bad. It can give kids anxiety and more stress secondly homework only benefits certain kids so why should we do homework if it does not benefits us. We also do a lot of work in school as it is that is why we should not have any more homework.