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This is kinda long but worth reading. I've read a lot of the ideas from the poeple on the side
that's all for homework. And some are ridiculous. First, stop criticizing people who aren't good
spellers. That can not be blamed on homework in any way. That's because they simply didn't pay
attention in school. Second, for all of you that are saying it builds on what you learned during the
school day, sure it does, but a seven hour school day should be enough anyway. Third, it is not the
difference between being successful and "flipping patties" for the rest of your life. I don't even
think I have to explain that one. Forth, mostly all schools base the overall grade largely on
homework. That is just unfair. Many people don't have the time for it, the teachers are not there to
help and parents aren't always available or even smart enough to help their kids. And there is a
huge amount of kids out there who are very inteligent but have their grade lowered by homework
because they don't have the time for it. Please don't say "there's 24 hours in a day, they should
have some time for it." School is 7 hours. Sleep is should be 7-9 hours. So no, they don't have 24
hours to do it. Let me give you a quick example of my average day. I get home from school, play
hockey for a couple hours. Come home, shower, eat dinner. Right after that, there's usually a Devils
game on. (I am a huge hockey/devil fan, so yes it is important and necessary for me to see it if I'm
not at it.) By the time the game is over, its already passed 10:00. So i stay up as late as I can
trying to solve problems 1-30 on page 345, writing out the whole problem, showing all work, solving
and checking, then reading chapter 18, then writing a short story, then sovling chemical equations
ect... Without any help from a teacher. Then I go to school the next day and teachers have the nerve
to confront me about being tired while lowering my grade because I couldn't complete a ridiculous
amount of pointless homework. I know a lot of you will say that homework and schoolwork are very
important. I agree that school is important, and I have no problem doing the work while I'm there.
But once i get home, I'm on MY time, and what I want to do comes before what a school wants me to
do. It's my life, and I intend to enjoy it. Any fans of homework that want to argue with me? I'll be
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I am doing a speech and its stressing me out sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much! My speech is about
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I think homework should just be set to revision, not major assignments. I am in year 11 at school,
and I often receive projects that a often worth 20-30% of my semester's marks. This is too much!
Shouldn't we be receiving help from a teacher for a project this crucial? But how, when we are at
home? Most of the work I get set is too advanced for my parents, so I am often stuck alone trying to
interpret how to complete my assignments, with help from nobody. Then, sometimes, I often get the
wrong idea for the assignment, and it is my fault! Well how was I supposed to know what to do? There
is noone to help me!
Now for my second point, it is time consuming. I am coming up to an age when I can start learning to
drive, and it would benefit me to get a car. But cars are expensive, as is maintenance and fuel, so
I need a job. However, I am also an Air Force Cadet, which I enjoy. But these things take up time.
And if homework takes up the rest of the time, I have no time for anything else. We should be seeing
our friends, and going to movies and living a life, but we can't. Instead we are home stressing
about how to do homework.
So I think homework should not exist, and if so, it should just be a recap of what we have been
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I think that we should be givin unfinished work to do as homework, BUT that should be limited and we
shouldnt be givin any work over the weekend, also i thibk that it should be optional so if we dont
do it its our choice and responsibility! In a perfect world i would want it banned altogether! I
mean seriously who like having all their time taken up by a boring and pointless task! Studies have
shown that homework actually has no known benifits and so it just takes up vauable time. Also, i
believe homework could be a contributer to obeisity in children as they have no time to excersize. I
do not fully agree it should be banned and i can see SOME point in it. I may not be a great speller
or a math whiz but i do know when something is wasting time! And i think we should save our time on
more important things! (also im definatly no goody two shoes) like some of u little fairytailers!
Haha i dislike teachers and school but i took that out of account to make my decision. Im actually
doing an assign ment on weather i think it should be banned and for now i believe it should (: |
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I find this to be a serious topic, instead of whining and complaining like the other, I have come to
a solution.
I have read many of the comments, and some people who are against homework usually have the same
thing to say: It gives students something to do, or because they need practice. I've even seen some
change their opinions AGREEING with some of the "For" delegates. But most of the people for banning
homework cannot seem to come up with a serious reason. Now, I hate homework, nobody alive doesn't.
But the reason I have for homework is because it is obsolete. Most of the time, teachers will give
homework for several subjects at a time. This can be very controversial when several PROJECTS are
given that are worth a high percentage, especially since teachers will debate their homework is more
important than the other classes (not fair at all to the other teachers). I find that if teachers
should give out homework, limit the amount given using a numbering system(if banning homework
altogether is to radical) that requires teachers to WORK TOGETHER when they give out homework to
make things easier on the students. This is my proposed system: A five point system.
Small assginments are one point
projects are 2.5 - three points based on size
and summative projects (exam type projects) are worth four.
It would work like this.
Every day, you start with five points
a teacher gives you a science sheet (small assignment). You now can either have four other
assignments of the same size or one more and a project, or one more and an exam.
This system si worked out so that several teachers cannot assign projects at once. Once a project is
assigned, It takes up the same amount of points until the due date (this is so a teacher cannot give
a project a day later). In this way, homework can be managed more appropriately.
Teachers should also NOT give homework that is worth enough that someone could fail if they do
badly, the summative should add up to be equal with all the previous homework (so good students do
not have their average jeapordized by a single assignment)
Projects or summative projects should not be given a certain amount of time before the end of school
either, and must leave room for if there is the be an extension for whatever reason.
I dearly hope that someone will happen upon my solution, and will consider putting it in to action.
It would do me great joy to see it come into fruition in the future. |
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I think homework is a waste of time and it gets in the way of after school activities!! |
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Homework is pointless i mean what does it do? I know it's supposed to help you study but what if you
already know it? And for the people who don't study let them get F's. So why not just remove
homework and poof! We don't have as much stress and we can get a better nights sleep! I mean come on
just ban it already! |
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I hate homework and my teacher is making me do a homework assignment that says that i have to
make a list about how homework should NOT be banned. I hate this assignment. |
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I agreed with the title because homework not only wasting our time , it also not good with
recycle.
For the sake of our environment, i prefer this title !!! |
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It is a waste of time and too much constant stress
it was originally used in the middle ages as torture |
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Homework is stupid. All it does is interfear with my after-school life. |
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I think we arent learning enough in school because I have all this like free time and cant the
teacher like teach stuff then and insted they make you memorize it with homework |
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It dosn't teach us anything and its not real work my teachers don't check my work |
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I hate homework just as much as the next person. I think that they should ban it because we do
anough work in school already, so why do we need to go home and be put with stress for doing more of
it? See, it is a little different for my school, Van Meter Junior High School. We have one-on-one
computer access which means that we have Mac laptops that we take home and can call our own, until
the end of the year obviously when we have to turn them in. So in our case we are not killing and
cutting down trees because we hardly ever use paper. And I think that in our case homework is more
fun to do at home because we have these laptops, but I still disagree with homework because most of
the homework we do requires internet access and a lot of people in our school do not have wireless
internet in our home, so I think that schools should ban homework all together and give us time at
home to do things that are worth our while instead of sitting in a classroom for 7 hours. |
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The fact is all our brains need recharging. With school kids, that means having an evening filled
with games and fun. Those evening activities need not have to be diverging in interest from learning
needs. They could for instance be fun quizzes that motivate kids to learn for rewards, customized
science movies that reveal scientific facts in ways no kid would lose interest in, and the like.
Schools and parents can surely experiment with such ideas that will use kid's evenings to bring
about a Win- Win rather than keep beating about the bush whether homework is right or wrong! |
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Homework reinforces what you are taught in school right? WRONG! Studies have proven that homework
does NOT reinforce what we are taught in school and does NOT help. Kids needs some sort of ways to
test themselves right? WRONG AGAIN! They have these things in schools (don't know if you've heard of
them) that are called TESTS! They are given all at one time in every class (which I don't get why)
and we have to study for them to do our bests or else we will be looked down upon by our teachers
and peers. Homework teaches independeces right? NOT REALLY! What happens when a kid doesn't
understand one of the problems? He/She asks his/her parents to help them and most of the time they
don't know because a lot of the stuff we learn won't be used in our lives, so they have forgotten.
The work needs to be done at school so a teacher (who is payed to teach and actually knows the
material) can assist!. Teachers also use homework as a grade booster. Why? Because the better the
students grades, the better their pay. I once had a teacher who gave me an A for the quarter when I
really had a C. What was her reason for giving me this grade? Extra credit! She gave me a small
homework assignment to do for the next day and if I did it I would get an A. Most kids would take
this oppertunity, but I decieded that it wouldn't be fair to the kids who did their homework in the
class (I can't remember what class it was it was that pathetic! We learned about managing our time
and how to fold a peice of paper so we could take notes on it...) I didn't take the offer and she
was stunned. She wanted her money and gave me the A anyway! Perfect example of how some teachers
are, greedy. Teenage suicide is on the rise (recently lost a good friend from suicide RIP ANDRI) and
the most common reason is from stress. What else is on the rise? Homework. All the schools are
competing with each other to get the better scores on the State Achievement Tests so they can have a
better record as a school. They want it so bad that they do not care what it takes because it is all
about the MONEY. Teachers are told to give more homework so it 'reinforces' what we are taught, but
it doesn't. We are under stress to do all of our homework, do to it on time, to make sure we have
enough sleep so we don't fall asleep in school, and to do it right. On top of that, we have after
school activities. Our time in school is wasted by stupid classes such as FCS, Choir, Art and Study
Hall(these can all be done out of school). If we eliminated those couple rediculous courses, we
would have more time to be at home and we would be likely to get more physical activity than 20
minutes of badminten. This would eliminate PE and then the day would be so short, Lunch wouldn't be
an issue. This would mean school days would be shortened to three hours and students would be just
as smart. If that would happen, I wouldn't mind all that homework because I would have that extra 3
hours of time during the day and be less stressed. I am currently in 8th grade and am taking all
honors and 10th grade honors math. What I don't get is that some nights I will only get about 30
minutes of homework, but then the next night, 4 teacher will give big assisments due the next day.
Do they plan to give us their homework all on the same day just to mess with us? Why didn't two of
the four give it to us on the first day. Some days I come home and have homework from 3:30 to 9:00.
By that time, I am exhasted and am going to pass out! I can't take it anymore and my mother sees it
too. We actually considered saying our religion was against any schooling done at the home and it
was to be done strictly at school. I am thinking of enrolling in online courses it is so bad.
HOPE STUPID CLASSES ARE SHORTENED OR HOMEWORK IS BANNED! |
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There are other people wasting their lives cause of homework when they can do other thing instead of
doing hm and they dont get any time to do any thing else because when they are finished hm they have
to go to bed or have classes.like i had so much hm when i was done it was 11:00 pm and i started at
3:30pm.when i first had homework i hated it and also hated school too |
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Homework is torcher to kids every where. Why make the children be put through pain every day. |
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Hmwrk is one of the bigest problums in r yooth today. Because of the constant overwrkg of tedays
studints, they have no time to socialeyes and falow what they like too dew. Bcuz of the constant
barege of paper and work, stdnts have no time for famly, frends, and persnal intrests, homewrk
should be band.
Oh also they need to go to the feild to excercizse. |
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Hell yeah we do lots of work any ways |
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Yes
cuz 1) You go to school about the entire day
2) You learned enough at school
3) People got other stuff to do instead of doing hw
4) Makes kids hate school
5) Causes stress
6) Hurts trees :) |
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Yah i totally agree children r already spending most of there time at school so why give homework
its a perfect waste of time and it causes lots of problems such as
obesity: As u all might be knowing when ur doing ur homework and especially if u hve lots of it then
u might not get time to head out to the feild and do some exercising
relationship problems in families:if children r given too much homework they dont have enough time
to spend with their families which causes relationship problems |
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To much is too bad |
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We have totally enough time for doing work in school and stuff. If there is too much homework, we
wouldnt have time to do other stuff that we like and all. And those stuff may not necessary be able
to be taught well in school. Like for example piano or sports or whatever. If lets say, person A is
very good at soccer. But he cannot practice it and stuff because of too much homework. The world
have lost a wonderful soccer player. Also, mayb person A was only good at soccer and nothing else.
He might become jobless!
Another reason why i think hw should be banned is that if there is still alot of hw after a long day
of school, people might not have lots of enthusiasm doing it. And since they dont have much
enthusiasm, they would just rush through it , not remembering anything or revising it. Their goal is
just to finish it. They would not care how well they did.and so |
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Homework takes up alot of time that we could be used for excersize. We sit in school for around
seven hours and when we are forced to go home and sit and do more homework it takes away our chance
of excercize. And children need excersize as does everybody.
Plus when we're at school we learn things and we spend an hour each day per class so i dont think
there is any need to make us come home and do more
also ive noticed that sometimes our teachers give our assignments at the end of class and we go home
and realize we dont understand some things. Thats why i belive homework should be banned:) |
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Homework takes up way too much time when we can just be riding our bikes or making USE of our spare
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I think that homework should be banned or at least less of it .
Children between the ages 6-17 are getting less family time,health,and
sleep! I'm only a kid and i have frequently had breakdowns. So please, parents and teachers think
of your children and students from a child's view point |
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It's a waste of time |
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I'm for because homework sucks |
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It depends, MOST schools (don't reply to this saying you aren't one of them) give reasonable HW.
However overachieving schools like TJ give way too much but the students who go there know that
prior to their enrollment so I'm not sure... |
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Excess homework is unfair and stressful to kids.
Think about it in comparison to work: Once your shift ends, you can go home and do pretty much
whatever you want. You could sit around, drawing poodles on your hand until you had to go to work
again.
With school, though, once you get out, you have to then spend quite a bit of time doing mindless,
unintuitive worksheets. And, when you have a project, it can consume several days.
Free time helps keep people sane, so let them have it by cutting back on homework! |
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Sure I'm just a kid so I don't want homework |
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If we are forced to do homework without getting paid, then that's called slavery. If kids are
forced doing homework then they should be paid. |
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Ok. I am the one to hate homework. I don't think it should be completely banned i just think that
the only homework we should get is what we haven't finished during class time. It is also a good
solution when a child is falling behind. But for my sake I vote that WE SHOULD BAN IT. (even though
i am in the against it column, oops). |
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If we do not get homework, how will we be showing effort that we do care about our education. Some
of you might say that homework is just a waste of time and tests are the ones that show our
knowledge but students are forced to do tests, homework you don't have to do. If you do not complete
your homework often that means you are not putting enough effort in your work or maybe you need help
with the questions but just not asking for help. |
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Homework benefits people indirectly. |
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Homework is good for you |
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So, really, why ban it? If you get rid of Homework, you get rid of funding. If you get rid of
funding, you get rid of the entire school system, you get rid of the school system, you're basically
going to be a stupid person, so, here's and example: I do homework because it helps me with life
skills, which builds up on my responsibility, I would rather work at Valve Software rather than
being a guy who flips burgers for the rest of my life, besides, you guys on the banning homework
side, look at you're grammar and spelling, if you did all of your homework, you would know how to
spell. And you would know good grammar. Lastly, if I didn't have homework, I couldn't go into the
field of politics, or, go into the field of Game development. I would rather be the smart man, than
a man who knows nothing.Like the saying "The smart man always knows that there is always more to
learn." |
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I think homework shouldn't be banned because homework gives you the oppurtunity to expand your
intelligence and grasp new concepts. Homework can sometimes suck, but I always remember that it is
going to benefit me later in life. Homework lets you practice or review the new concepts that you
learned in school. |
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Homework is a schools way of making children learn by theirselves
different children work better in different circumstances
some children work better in school while others work better on their own
Homework gives the oppurtunity for children to work in their best environment |
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I'm against it cause it gives kids responsibilities and disipline it also keeeps them out of trouble
as well as giving parents alone time it helps kids practice what they learnt in class lets just hope
teachers don't give us too much homework so that our brain doesn't explode
it teaches kids responsibility because normally we get homework because we havn't done it in class
so we sort of brou it on ourselves
i love this debating thing it is pretty fun and im not this sort of smart girl
here's the rael question would you rather have a nice career or be in a homing comission and
flipping the patties at maccas |
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If you bane homework what will most of the students grades be based on? If they are based on tests
instead of homework than the kids who are poor test takers will be stressed out because they know
they will fail. Even if they study that doesn't mean that they will remember everything. Some kids
know the answers to the tests but when they get the tests they freeze up and go blank. I know
because i was one of those students. No matter how hard i studied i still failed the tests. Without
homework i wouldn't have graduated because i usually didn't do the big projects and if i did i
didn't do very well with them. |
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Ya but does homework make pushy parents pushier by helping their children do their homework beat
that the for its |
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Because you can get a job |
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Children, Teenagers, Uni Students, PARENTS all have home work so? I think that it gets you into
study my sister nearly failed in year 7 because she didn't do homework now that she does homework
she's a bloody genius
plus i hate homework as much as anyone but we need it to actually get smarter and teachers cause
stress not homework how they give it to thats whats causes the stress |
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I think homework shouldn't be banned because it gives me something to do so im never bored. |
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I am a student in high school. I don't mind homework as long as it is in moderation. But no homework
altogether?
Homework plays an important role in a student's education. It fosters independent learning, it
develops one's study habits and it reinforces learning. How can students complain about not having
not enough recreation time? A student could create some time within 24 hours for their recreation or
relaxing.
Homework can also be proof that a student is up to date with their curriculum. It helps memorise
information and other work. If a student attends class and then goes home free of homework, what he
previously learned in class that day could have been forgotten, so homework will then bring that
knowledge keep it memorised.
Homework increases your chance of future success and also 'practice makes perfect.' |
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It is essential for your life because if you don't get education you can get poor and not live in a
home and you don't get a job.Children should be encouraged to have it! BTW how do you get
points?
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I don't like it but it does teach people to not get distracted... Wow look at that! |
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As much as we hate homework, it is essential. It reinforces the lessons we learned in class, and
gives us extra practice. The only way you can get out of homework is to convince your parents to
homeschool you. It rocks!! (That is just my point of view, no one needs to debate it) |
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Well this is how you know that the majority of this site is made up of pre teens and
kids....homework, although hard and undesireable i know i hate it too, helps you reinforce
everything./....without homework everything would be half assed knowledge that we cant
remember......how many times did you say you countries anthem before you remember it, erpitition is
the key to memory unfortunately.,.
When you play soccer and you practice and practice you get better until game day where you kill
it....practice is just another way of saying homework....casue practice makes perfect |
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If there's no homework there might be more time in school because there has to be more work in
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Homework is essential. |
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We've had this debate many times before. |
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I think it must be important to education because it allows more and additional knowledge to be used
and acquired within a specific subject and/ or topic area. Also it could be a way for a routine to
be established. |
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I would agree they shouldn't get some types of homework. There are some assignments they may need
school resources to do properly, and/or some may demand an unrealistic time commitment. However,
there will always be something justified to send home as an assignment. Even a basic show-and-tell
in grade school is technically a homework assignment yet it's fun and everyone may learn and benefit
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I'm a student, but, No, I don't believe in banning homework. Not because I believe that more
homework is good or that we have enough homework, but because I believe that the grading aspect of
A-F for homework should be banned and that schools should change homework assignments to be more
creative. Homework should require. I thinking i and innovating (something like
painting, writing a poem, or conducting an experiment) rather than just drilling and memorizing and
writing information on a piece of paper. This way students that need more than just classwork to
help them understand subject matter can use homework as a different avenue to enlighten them even
more on the subject. The work should be made more open-ended to have a student to be able to
learn and understand a topic using their own interest and style of learning, and
without the stress of forcibly memorizing something that would eventually be forgotten with time. I
do believe that many teachers/schools assign too much homework, but like i said homework just needs
to be "more interactive, less drilling." That way kids learn HOW to learn. Not
WHAT to learn. Homework should be banned for Elementary Schools and Middle schools should get
a limited amount of work.
These are some good articles about the topic at question. |
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Homework shouldn't be bane completely because it helps kids to get ready for any thing and you have
to have the brains to get a good job. |
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I saw this debate before, do your homework!
I think the great thing about home work is that it builds on what you have learned in the day,
and the sleeping mind has a chance to digest it all, and put it all into prospective. |
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So it's a good thing to coddle you now so feel better, thereby leaving you completely unprepared for
additional schooling or job training later on? |
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Well if you ban homework then seven classes won't be enough. Homework is vital in allowing students
to develop independent study habits and build on work in class. |
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Homework shows the teachers who need help and who doesn't. I understand the never-ending homework,
but it shows how you working under high-pressure. I understand as I am still in school. |
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Nope. Keeps you off ForAndAgainst. |
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More you learn the better you can debate. |
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 joe9 15 Jul 2008 17:37
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Homework should not be banned... I know i hate it too but... |
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Of course, you already have hours of free time, and you still need more? |
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What ever.
You just want to be lazy. |
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The problem isn't that there's too much work. The problem is there's not enough.
The material taught to children in elementary, junior and high school could be taught in 10 years,
not 12. All kids are capable of learning it within that time instead of spinning their wheels for
two more years.
What's needed is more reading, more thinking, and more evaluation by kids. The school systems fail
in two ways: They are teaching kids what to think instead of _how_ to think, and they are stifling
curiosity by putting the carrots in front of the kids instead of making them want it by working.
We should be making kids want to learn instead of learning to want. More homework that requires
they think, instead of tedious time wasting, would do far more good.
Edit:
The purpose of "stick and carrot" is to make the donkey go forward to try and get it. If you put
the carrot in the donkey's mouth, is it going to move?
Except in real life, the kids are given the answers instead of the skills to find the answers for
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 K9 20 Apr 2008 07:12
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