[Debate] Homework is injurious to health Ban Homework!
By allright
@allright (86)
India
February 4, 2009 1:18pm CST
Topic: Should students be given homework tasks to complete outside school? Or are such tasks pointless?
In England the government does not make schools give homework but it does set guidelines. Five year olds are expected to do an hour a week, increasing to three hours a week at 11 and ten hours or more a week at 16. American studies report the amount of homework being set for younger students doubling over the past twenty-five years or so, although some doubt these findings.This topic looks at whether homework should be banned altogether. The arguments could also be adapted for debates on whether less homework should be set, or on ending homework for younger students.
NOTE: Plz say that you are for the motion or against the motion before starting
2 responses
@highflyingxangel (9225)
• United States
4 Feb 09
I am for getting rid of homework.
There have been studies completed that have determined homework is quite useless. Homework is like busy work. Teachers that teach really have no reason for giving homework. Their conclusion? Well, we were taught that we should give homework, so we assign it.
I think reading and what not is OK. Maybe doing a worksheet or something at home to help them understand and complete problems. However, hours and hours and hours of homework? What does that accomplish really? It just stresses people out and really doesn't help anyone in the long run.
@highflyingxangel (9225)
• United States
5 Feb 09
This is why I enjoy being a Pre-K teacher. We don't really give homework. I'll never have to mess with it.
@Jae2619 (1483)
• United States
4 Feb 09
I am FOR the motion to rid homework.
When I was younger, I rarely had homework and if my teachers assigned it, it took less than 30 minutes, even in highschool.
I would love to see something done for the homework that my son brings home a night. He's in the first grade and it's a rediculous amount. There are nights it will take him 2 hours to complete everything that he's required for nightly homework. He's write his 15 spelling words, and his spelling sentence... sometimes only two times each, other times it's as much at 10 times each. He's to read a 25 page story, write out the answers to the questions at the end of the story. He has a math page, and usually at Language page. On top of all that, he's got to study his reading words he'll be tested over on Thursdays of each week, and he's got 10 of those words.... And we just recieved a letter Monday of last week, they will be doing word definitions, which he will have to write the word and the correct definition of each word.
I have a good background in elementary education,and I have voiced my opinion on his homework nightly. and I also, know that the National Education Association endorses a guildline that states 10 minutes of homework per grade level... A first grader should have no more than 10 minutes of homework a night, 20 minutes for a second grader and 30 for a third grader... so why don't more teachers follow these recommendations and guildlines?
