One of the biggest things that causes stress (as a student) is homework. One of the main reasons is, as a student, I don’t think for a second that I actually benefit from homework. To me, it’s just something that causes unnecessary stress and in the end doesn’t actually do much for you. Sure, some practice of graphing concepts is good, but why couldn’t we just do board work in class? I think that we, as students, should not have homework for a number of reasons.
Some people say that homework is good. Some people say that homework is bad. Some just don’t care (not many). The people that say it is good usually argue that, well, as the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Like I said, why not do board work in school instead of sending work home? The dictionary definition of ‘school’ is: “an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.” In this case, why not just do a little practice to let the teachers make sure that the student understands the concept, and once they do, why do teachers bother to give them 10-20 more problems to do at home? Besides, from what I understand about teachers, they (maybe you are a teacher as well, you can possibly relate to this) hate grading homework and find it just as annoying as we do.
Another reason we shouldn’t have homework: it causes unnecessary stress. If what I said in the above paragraph is true, which it is, then homework is pointless. If there is no point to homework, then why assign it? All it does is cause stress that isn’t needed. Why would you do that? I have (as a student) had quite a lot of times where I have been up a lot longer than usual doing homework, sometimes make-up from missed school, sometimes because I simply forgot that we had homework in a particular subject and therefore didn’t do it. I then had to make it up the next night, and got marked down for it. Humans are forgetful. That means I got marked down because of human nature.
Some people say that homework teaches students self-discipline and responsibility; I know from experience that that is NOT true. I also found NO evidence for that while I was researching. Others say that it creates a link between school and family. Ok, so other than intruding on time that could be spent with family how does it do that? Still, some say that it helps kids to like learning. Again, I know from experience that this is NOT TRUE! If anything, it does the exact opposite of that. We all know it: Everyone hates homework.
