For the most part, teachers don’t give too much homework but there are some that give an unreasonable amount of homework just because. It gets in the way of those students who have sports after school only to come home and do homework all night and lose sleep.
A student poll conducted in California shows that 90% of middle schoolers have shown to copy someone else’s homework, along with 43% of college students collaborating when not allowed to so “cheating.” Also, 59% of high schoolers thought they had too much homework. With this data it’s safe to say that no one is really benefiting from homework since 1, majority of students don’t care, and 2, students end up cheating so what’s the point.
Some analysis shows that there are some pros such as improved study habits, improved life skills, and students who do their homework outperform their peers on standardized tests by 69%. So overall homework has benefits.
Do you think homework should be kept, minimized, or banned altogether?
I do believe that homework is beneficial. However, I also believe that the purpose of homework is heavily misunderstood by both teachers and students. Students think of it as busy work, which most of the time it is, instead of practice. The reason we think of homework in this regard is because we are constantly bombarded by it. It almost seams as if teachers had no regard for the lives that the student lives beyond the school grounds. The quality andd length of thee homework is also ridiculous. Homework is repetitive and long rather than just quickly recapping on what was learned on the previous school day. Now some teachers, and by no means do I intend on attacking teachers but just to give input on how students feel, treat homework as a medium to teach a subject instead of a way to reinforce the subject. Many teachers send out homework that is long and tiring on the same day that they teach a new lesson. A better alternative would be to send homework a few days after a lesson is taught and instead using lesson summaries at the end of a class as a mini quiz or recap. So in short, homework should stay but just minimized and sent out responsibly.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the amount of homework given to students should be cut down. Students don't see homework as practice, instead they see it as useless work that they're doing just to try and get it done. Most students aren't learning anything from the homework given to them. I feel like teachers need to find a way to make homework more fun instead of it just being practice problems. Maybe then I'll actually consider doing homework to benefit from it, not just because it's due and that I have to get it done.
ReplyDeleteWhile it would be easy for many students to say that homework is awful and needs to be banned, if handled right, it could be helpful to students. I can agree with most when they say that some teachers give students way to demanding assignments to finish, and when put together (out of the six or seven classes they have) it adds up. Students with AP and honors classes stay up late trying to finish their work. Students spend more time memorizing then actually retaining knowledge from their homework. If homework was more interactive and fun maybe students would be more interesting.
ReplyDeleteEven though we think homework is a waste of time, it can be pretty beneficial. But the amount of homework given to us is sometimes absurd. Homework is to just either sharpen the skills we learn from the day or get ready for the next day.
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