Why Homework Should Be Banned Essay

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    Introduction Homework has been an area of discussion for teachers, students, and even psychologists. It’s been a practice which has been used throughout the United States to help students learn material, reinforce their day’s lesson, or just as busy work to improve a student’s work ethic. Several people view homework as useless, or just plainly unhelpful; this view has been demonstrated ever since the early twentieth century, where many authors and politicians were vehemently against homework, going as

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    The question everyone is asking is ‘should all teachers be armed at school?’ I strongly believe this should not even be a question, putting our children in danger is not a risk I am willing to take. The students come to school to learn, and knowing that they are going to go home. The students will soon fell intimidated about the fact that all the teachers in the school are armed. If the teacher pulls the gun out of the pouch, there will be consequences. Sooner rather than later teachers will abuse

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    Should Gum be Allowed at School? You either love or hate the idea of chewing gum at school but have you thought of all of the evidence supporting it? Many different studies show the effects of gum on students, but each show a different result, leaving people’s opinions diverse. Some studies show that chewing gum helps test scores increase while teachers and students say it can be distracting and messy. Some students stick their gum under their tables or desks instead of taking the chance of getting

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    Indeed the internet is great help, however the greatest help of all, Wikipedia, is not approved to be copied, so we must refuse to accept the temptation of our surroundings and finish the work with every letter being our own. Imagine life without no homework that involves technology, which is ironic as the answers are all there; but it’s a beautiful vivid image of stress free students who don’t need to be upset or troubled. Technology is also becoming extremely unsafe if it is not used correctly. Technology

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    technology were standard equipment in every room. With how technology dependent schools are becoming, it is easy to turn a blind eye on small problems. These issues are addressed in "Why Students Should Take Notes by Hand – Not On A Laptop" by Joseph Stromberg and "Why a Leading Professor of New Media Just Banned Technology Use in Class" by Clay Shirky. Both articles led me to realize the drawbacks to technology that I had been unaware of beforehand; although, I still believe it is important to

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    your cell phone. I feel like cell phones should not be aloud in school. If students brought their phones to school they would be on themwhen a teacher is teaching, not paying attention to the lesson therefore inception to fail that class. Researchers have found out that if students did not bring their phones to school their grades would begin increasing, moreover their test scores would improve by an average of 6%.The reason I understand why phones should be outlawed from school is they can become

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    Sports in school can be dangerous and exciting. Sports should be canceled because of financial, academic, and health reasons. Sports have brought many injuries, budget issues and grade losses. Schools don’t earn that much money, they have to spend it on bills, new supplies for students, and problems that occur with the chromebooks, bathrooms, heaters, air conditioning, etc. If the school spends that much money, how will they have enough to pay for sports. According to Tyler Carter, “Right now with

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    Why was Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind Banned? On June 30, 1936, Macmillan published Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind”. The 1,037 page novel became the fastest selling novel ever printed despite its price of $3. By Christmas of the first year, the novel had sold one million copies. Soon after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the motion picture of the same name on December 1939, sales of the novel reached 2,153,000 copies (Corbett). The motion picture went on to win 10 Academy

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    nation rely on webfilter companies to block “inappropriate” websites for them. These web filters are unnecessary. Schools should have unblocked internet and refrain from using filters because they don’t fulfill their job, they are easy to go around, and they are very stressful. Web filters block the wrong sites. They are designed to scan web pages to determine if its content should be displayed. The filter checks the origin of a page against a set of rules provided by company. The problem here is

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    Teens Should Be Banned From Smartphones In the movie WALL-E, everyone had been so consumed by technology that they rode around on floating chairs sipping slushies and watching screens. When someone fell out of their chair, robots would come help them and all the other chairs would be detoured around them. As glued to screens as teens are now, it seems at least a bit likely that humanity could end up like that. they think that they need their devices all the time, so when issues occur, they will

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