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Homework is not Necessary
Nathan Chavez
Composition II
ITT-Technical Institute, San Bernardino
Mrs. Boyer
July 28, 2015

Homework is something that students have to deal with for at least twelve years of their lives. Those twelve years do not include things such as colleges and universities. However, homework is not necessary for a fourth of the time students are forced do it. Homework is not necessary for students that are in high school. Homework in high school is just busy work, does not increase test scores, and has harmful nonacademic effects. All though homework is not necessary for high school students it is necessary and helpful for students in lower level schools. In elementary school, homework helps with students work …show more content…

Homework given by teachers is meant to have the student retain what they learned at school, by making them do it at home. In Tokarcki’s article “Thoughtful Homework or Busy Work: Impact on Student Academic Success”, he states, “They must avoid giving busy work just to make sure that the students are completing a certain amount of homework each night” (2011). . Most teachers, however, will hand out work that is just meant to add another assignment in their grade books. By handing out busy work most students will just not do the assignment, or copy it off a classmate that always does the …show more content…

Most teachers tend to give between 30 minutes to one hour of homework per night, multiply that by about five or six classes equates to four to five hours of homework per night. Galloway, in his article “Nonacademic Effects of Homework in Privileged, High-Performing High Schools, stated, “Students who did more hours of homework experienced greater behavioral engagement in school but also more academic stress, physical health problems, and lack of balance in their lives” (2013) If homework causes these things in students then it is more harmful than helpful. Homework is meant to help students, not cause many problems to one’s

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