Homework

A young student comes home complaining about homework. Sound familiar, yes? So is this, homework but in over extensive amounts, something that should or shouldn’t be happen? Is this all just part of growing up? Should schools lessen the amount of homework, increase it, or just keep it how it is? All these questions and more will be examined as I go through with writing, while adding my own opinion into the mix. Many people feel homework is pointless and has no purpose. Specialists have proved that students don’t really need homework, and yet they are still given it. Schools are giving kids homework each night that “amid concerns that high-stakes testing and competition for college have fueled a nightly grind that is stressing out children and depriving them of play and rest, yet doing little to raise achievement, particularly in elementary grades.” So not only does homework take away childhoods, so much of it of it is given just because schools want to look better and think that by doing this it will raise test scores. Homework is taking time out of students’ lives that could be better used than practicing that 47 - 7= 40. “Parents want their kids back.” The effects of students working a “second shift” effects not only them, but there families, too. Less time to know your parent’s, more learning and practicing what you already know how to do. There have been proposals to limit homework, but it is very unlikely that people of the districts will actually fallow this. “Some efforts have drawn criticism from some teachers and some parents who counter that students must study more, not less, if they are to succeed.” Well, you know what, if students want to be successful, then let them try to be on there own. This thing called “busy work” helps no one; it’s just given to prevent kids from living. Being stuffed in a room from after school to bed isn’t now kids should live. “I think people confuse homework with rigor” is what a school principal said. It has been said that homework in small doses can reinforce basis skills but there are limits. Elementary school having two to three hours of homework each night and it helps with nothing. “It’s been a fairly rote, thoughtless process for a long time, and schools are starting to realize this is a problem.” Although some people believe that homework is negative, there are others feel that it’s good. Homework does many things to help out students. Whether it be helping them practice for a test or letting us be competitive with other countries such as China and India. If students do there homework they are more likely to develop good study habits and get better grades on tests. “Part of growing up is having a lot of homework everyday. You’re supposed to say, ‘I can’t come our and play because I have to stay and do my homework,’” is what William Parker, a construction worker with a young nephew in school, had to say about homework. Kids are so use to homework it is just a normal thing in life. “Most of kids can’t spell without spell check or add unless it comes up on the computer.” Students that do there homework have more of a chance of to remember and learn things than those who don’t. Homework also prepares you for the real world. “If we coddle them when they’re younger, what happens when they get into the real world? No one’s going to say to them ‘You don’t have to work extra hard to get that project done; just turn in what you got.’” Students’ homework is just like work for adults, so it’s just teaching them what real work is like. It also teaches students time management. Having to plan your things around homework, like lunch with friend or seeing a movie is just like how it will be when you are doing work when you are older. If they ready themselves now it will really pay off later in life. Homework can be both good and bad, in my opinions. At times it can be too much and useless, but there are there moments where homework really helps me. I find it fairly nonessential, most of the time teachers just give us work in which we do exactly what we did in class. Teachers just want to find a way to give students grades besides giving test and quizzes, therefore they give use homework. Spending hours upon hours working on homework has been part of my life since I can remember, and I can really say that about tree fourths of that was pointless busy work. Homework, however, does have sometimes when it helps, like when you have a test and you need a review. When I am given a review sheet to do at home for homework before a test, I do better on it than when I’m not given one. Homework in small amounts, to me, can be helpful in there own ways, whether it be to raise a grade in a class or to help study for a text, can be good, but if it is given out, without a care on what it is and has no propose but to make us stress and takes away time that could be better spent doing something else than it is bad. So as you can tell, there are many different views on the current state of homework, it is increasing day by day and has become something that just involves stress and has be demolished into something that no longer can be used to help students learn, but to keep them busy. Kids work loads get heavier as the need for students to succeed grows, this may be a good thing, but that is not my place to say. But as you think of your opinion on the homework loads remember this, knowledge, strength, and success are given to those who strive for what they want and aren’t set back by anything that is considered a distraction, bypass all things in your life that can give you stress that isn’t worth and carry out with all things you think will give you success.