SHOULD HOMEWORK BE BANNED FROM SCHOOL
WITHOUT HOMEWORK WE WOULD COME TO SCHOOL AND NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO IN CLASS OR ON A TEST
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YES
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I guarantee you can find no facts to support this. If a teacher needs to stack a child with homework to get them to learn a subject, then they aren't doing their job correctly. If a student is actually struggling the teacher should offer before/after school help. If some one doesn't understand a subject then throwing homework at them wont help. They will most likely do poorly on the homework or resort to not doing it/guessing. Side: YES
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I don't think you completely understand. Homework is considered a joke to most students. Students have the thought in their mind that homework is a completion/practice grade, meaning they get points for it if it's done. If it is something that will be graded for correctness, then they are most likely to get answers from the web, parents, or cheat off another friend's paper. And there is nothing wrong with the school hours. Most schools have 45-50 minute class periods. That is in fact enough time to learn the material. Homework doesn't teach you anything. The ones who are for homework can easily study and do practice problems from their book or whatever else they have. Also, if you want to look it from another point of view you can think of the stress it causes. Large homework assignments stress me out I know that for a fact. High School may be the hardest time of a teenagers life. You have to juggle grades, social lives, some start getting jobs and whatever other problems they have at home. Students don't always have time to go home and do an hour or so of homework if they work somewhere for 5 hours a night. People have lives outside of school. Side: YES
I believe that there are several factors that can damage a child's learning, homework is something that enhances and progress education. I can see little negative points against it. Schools should councetrate on treating pupils equally and possibly smaller classes, instead of the ethics of homework. Side: NO
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No, I don't think so. For one thing, most kids (especially from 10th grade onwards) find it hard to pay attention in class always. That's why with homework, you're refreshing what you learned and you also understand more, because you can identify which areas you need help with. However, there are times when teachers give too much homework. I understand that as you move up grades, the workload increases, but there should be a limit. Teachers should give a considerable amount of homework, so that kids can manage to do it and still get enough sleep. Right now in my class, that is not the case. Most people sleep for less than 5 hours each night. The amount of homework we get is... too much. Side: NO
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No, homework shouldn't be banned from school's but it certainly should be different. For example, kids should have to study for tests, in math maybe they should have five problems about what they were learning about to lock it in and make sure they understand but it shouldn't be graded. Homework should be for practice not for a grade. Side: NO
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I do get the point of homework, I really do. But when I'm getting a A on every test, but I have a D in the class because I refused to do and hour of homework per academic class, then homework isn't really helping, just hurting my grades and sleep schedule. So, I wouldn't ban it, but reform it... Or atleast fire 75% of the teaching force and get people who can hire people who can actually teach so I would learn more and have less work for when I go home. Side: YES
I can't count how many people I know that are more intelligent than half of the A students but end up barely passing or failing a class due to their homework completion. I would consider me in that group of people. As a sophomore student in High School I have struggled to make grades due to homework. At the school I use to go to K-9th grade I constantly struggled making the grades. I would get no lower than 75s on tests but I just had a trouble completing homework. Since moving and changing schools I have found a system that works for me. The new school I go to makes tests and quizzes 85% of your grade and homework/in class assignments 15%. We are halfway through the 1st quarter and I am a B+ student. I still don't do many of my at-home assignments, but I am breezing through this year with the 85%/15% system. Side: YES
What does completing a paper after school prove? When you go home you have the internet, parents, and many other resources to help you. What does getting all the answers from the internet prove? And if a student is truly having trouble but turning in all their homework because they get the answer from parents and other resources, how will the teacher knows if he/she needs help or not? Side: YES
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