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I think Homework is bad, any learning is negated by a hit to mental health, that's why my students don't have homework from me, during class I give them a time to do homework for other classes they have because that way they will be more productive in the long term.
I think homework does promote learning as long as the student is comfortable bringing home the work and doing it by themselves or with the help of family. Everyone's learning style is different, so we shouldn't force students to do homework if they are not getting anything out of it.
Students have vastly different learning styles so I think it would be cool if homework had different ways to help someone learn.
Everytime I get homework I either get it off the internet or get it from the smartest student in class but it does teach u something for like a test in class or like the end of the year test
Home is supposed to be a place where you chill...Homework just ruins it. Plus, you already proved you know what you were taught. I mean, if you didn't finish an assignment, then it's fine, but extra work...?
I believe that homework does promote learning. Especially if you're doing virtual academy(I am!) My teacher usually doesn't explain math, history, or science, so I learn that through homework which contains instructional videos, practice, and tests. Well, for the math at least. For science and history I am assigned a couple of huge projects. For science I use a website to help with my project, for history I use a history book. I do have to agree with @Atlas 'The Cucumber', though. My weekends and even my spring break are spent on homework. It stresses me out and gives me less time to do my own thing.
Homework does not help every time. Things like completing answers help, but not the other ones. In home, its better if you self study, but the homework and extra large projects dont help. Time managing becomes really difficult. I think that in school we should study and home we should self study, and practice. It will help us in managing our day and we can learn our way which will be more helpful. Also, many students just copy, so what's the point? They talk about balance but give us so much homework with little time and in every subject that we dont even have time to give ourselves.
Homework, to some extent, promotes learning because it helps the student practice and memorize the skills they learn in school. However, the amount of homework students are getting completely defeats the purpose because all it does is make students sleep deprived which makes them do worse in school and not better. Additionally, homework keeps students from hanging out with friends and doing activities that they are passionate about. Homework would be so much more effective if we were only given an hour of work, maximum, because right now homework only causes stress.
I think homework is a great thing to help students. However, I don't think that a lot of homework is a good thing. If the student gets so much homework that they have to stay up late to finish then they won't be able to focus the next day. Homework is good when it is beneficial for the student and not harmful to learning.
i'm a homeschooler lol so its all homework (and yes, i do learn) but I don't understand why y'all in public schools have SO MUCH OF IT
If the teacher has done a thorough job in the classroom explaining the lesson of the day and helping students through examples, then there should be no reason to have the enormous amount of homework we got on a daily basis. There’s a reason why we go to school. It’s to learn. If you’re not spending that class time teaching (which was the case for MANY of my teachers) then why should the student have to take home a stack from each class to complete in the little time they get with their family? The more you pile on, the less likely you’re to engage a student, because they likely will find it off the internet in order to get to do the things they’d like to do when they’re home. Some students have a job after school, some have sports, some don’t get the luxury to have a hobby because of home life. Adding to that stress doesn’t encourage learning. It encourages cheating, memorization, self esteem issues when they can’t understand what they’re doing, and for many, a deep loathing for school. There’s a reason why many European schools rarely hand out homework and give students a long break. Funnily enough, they do better than we do on exams. I wonder why that is.
No. Here’s my reasoning:1. Shouldn’t teachers be doing a thorough job teaching rather then us having to revise it the night of learning it? Clearly if they teach it well enough, homework wouldn’t be necessary.
2. It was originally designed as a punishment for poorly behaved students and it should be used in that form.
3. Time after school should be used for extracurriculars, not more work. With the amount of homework I get at my school, students in my class who do sports have little time to complete it. Schools are all for promoting good sleeping habits, but that isn’t possible when one stays up until 10-12 each night doing assignments. Don’t encourage extracurricular activities if you give us too much work to even do them.
I think yes it does but not a lot of homework- like revising, practicing and brushing up what you have learnt that day helps a lot in long term. A lot of homework makes students feel pressurized which will lead to aversion towards the subject (not the main reason but one of them)
Yeah, it’s necessary… especially in older years. You cut out homework, and you’re gonna take 12 years, not 6, to finish high school. It teaches independence, study skills, and organisation — in the future & in the workplace, in most cases you can’t just rock up, do what you’re told for a few hours, and then go home and do whatever you want. You have to be proactive. You have to bring something new that makes you worth hiring. You have to organise, manage, and maybe even teach/instruct. It also differentiates students based on work ethic and study skills. If all that mattered was how much students remembered from their time in class, academic achievement would be purely dependent on intelligence and retention of information. Homework + study allows those who are dedicated and hardworking to excel — it merits those skills, along with helping people to develop them (useful in ALL stages of life).
It also allows parents to be actively involved in what their children are learning, and to recognise where they may need extra help. You can’t cater to all students’ needs in the classroom, but you can set appropriate homework and advise parents to set aside time to help their children develop the skills they lack (for a multitude of reasons). That’s more context-specific to Primary school, though. High school really requires you to be more proactive and independent (as I’ve already mentioned, a skillset in itself).
Until you’re in your later years of high school, homework is super manageable anyway. You do it for 30 mins to an hour and then run along and do what you want. You have a surprising amount of freedom and leisure time — don’t take it for granted. (Spoken like the suffering 11th grader that I am…)
Haha I didn’t mean to get so into this topic — honestly I didn’t realise I had so many pro-homework arguments, makes me seem like a bit of an advocate. I say all this as I procrastinate doing homework by spending time on goodreads. 🤩
P.S. i’m australian, hence the 6 year high school.
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