DEBATE POINTS ( HOMEWORK SHOULD BE BANNED )

Homework is the reason I fail.

I am a high school junior, every day I get 12+ pages of homework
minimum. Because I cannot possibly do all of this and help around the
house as I am the only one able to do so, and therefore I have no time
to study my material and therefore my test grades suffer as a result.

Homework is like slavery.

It's basically forcing students to go home after a stressful day of school
and activities and do pointless homework. Teachers should be teaching
these things in class, not making the students learn it themselves. It's
preventing children from leading balanced lifestyles, with a healthy
amount of sleep and activities to keep them fit and active. How is a
student supposed to do 3 to 4 hours of homework, study for a plethora
of tests and quizzes, play sports, get involved in the community, eat
food with nutritional value, and get an adequate amount of sleep, all in
one day? That's not possible. The amount of stress homework causes
kids is ridiculous, especially when they're already under so much
pressure to get into a good college and do well in school, along with
making friends and staying active. Homework is not necessary.

Homework should be banned because it just isn't useful and wastes

time.
Homework is pointless because kids do enough work in school and they
don't need more. When they come home they want to chill out, hang
out with friends, or do something. Kids are in school for 8 hours a day
doing work, other than lunch and recess. Homework is not relevant for
kids. I did a survey at school at resource, and a majority of kids say that
homework should be banned in school because it is stressful and they
procrastinate until the last second. There is no point in homework. It
takes away from spending time with family. According to the text with
research 'Homework Should be Banned,' Schools has increased from 9
to 3 with 1 hour of recess and lunch to 8:40 to 3:15 with only 30
minutes of lunch and recess. This quote shows that too much is just
too much homework. Also, another reason is that, according to
research, some of the smartest countries like Finland and Japan dont
have homework. We can be just as smart as them without homework.
This shows that homework has no academic benefits for grades.

I am a teacher, and Yes!!

Yes! Ban homework.. As part of our school policy, homework must be
given out, and students should complete 30minutes of homework,, per
night! I think this is too much as many students have other
commitments.
Sport practices, jobs to do around home, looking after siblings, at after
school care etc
It is a hassle for the teacher to mark/grade and make up something that
is remotely fun,and enjoyable for the children to do

It hinders learning which is obviously a bad thing.

Undoubtedly, homework hinders learning. There are only 2 outcomes
possible when doing homework:
A) You do the homework, proving you were able to do it in the first
place and the work was therefore unnecessary.
B) You do not do the homework because you were unable, and therefore
did not learn anything.

Even besides these points, there are other reasons why homework
hinders learning. For example, homework has to be corrected, wasting
valuable class time which could be spent teaching new skills. It is an
unnecessary burden on children which causes great stress, and actively
teaches them to hate learning. Learning has to be an enjoyable
experience to be effective, and if children grow to hate a subject
because of the homework they receive, it will mean they learn much
less in class. Stress can also affect sleep and eating patterns, thus
resulting in lower scores in exams. I could go on forever, there are
literally no benefits to homework. Work is for work related-things, home
is where you can relax. This line should not be blurred.

As a student, I think it should be banned.

As a student, I don't get home from school until 4:30 or 5:00 and I am
doing homework sometimes until 8:30 almost every night. It is very
stressful when you have seven classes a day and homework in every
single class; it becomes very overwhelming. On top of that, I have to
get up every morning at 5:30 am just to catch my buss at 6:40. Many
mornings are very hard for me because of lack of sleep from the night
before staying up doing homework and studying for two or three tests
the next day.

If they banned homework, test scores might improve because then

students would have more time to study and be prepared than if we
have five different subjects to do on top of studying for a test the next
day.

Homework should be banned to reduce student stress.

Homework causes stress in many students. Homework takes time, and
it keeps students up late at night getting the work done. The loss of
sleep makes it hard to concentrate during class because students are
so tired.

I once stayed up until midnight and wound up very tired when morning
arrived. It was hard to focus on my lessons. As a student,I think sleep is
more important than doing homework. Students study during the day at
schools and academies,so there is no reason that we have to get
homework.

Many schools have a one-hour rule, but with multiple classes and each
teacher assigning one hour of homework, you end up with hours of
work to do at home. Students in advanced levels get even more work
than the students in basic classes.

Another reason is that the noise around us. If you have a room of your
own, you don't have to worry about this problem. I don't have my own
room. I have to do my homework in the study. When I'm working, my
mom is busy printing things out. It's annoying and makes it hard for me
to concentrate. I can't do my homework before I sleep. I have to
complete my homework in the morning when she's not using the study,
before I head for the academy. Getting it done in the morning means
rushing. Usually, the answer are wrong because I didn't have time to
really read the questions.

Students often think homework should be banned. I think so too.

Homework should be banned.

Why Homework Is Bad
Are you a kid who hates homework!? Well I am one! Did you know that
homework leads to bad grades and overwhelmed cranky kids? It can
also lead to stressed out children that can throw fits. Also, homework
gives less time for a kid to be a kid. There should be no homework for
all children. No homework is even good for teachers because they dont
need to correct it because they already have enough to correct

In some schools children can get homework as early as kindergarten, or

by the third grade. Homework has been annoying many children by the
fourth grade. At elementary school, especially, this is a bad idea
because many young students are known for having very short
attention spans. They have already been forced to sit and learn for
approximately 6 1/2 hours at school, with usually only 2 short recess
breaks and lunch and they are also very known to like to talk and chat a
lot.

By the time school is out, the kids just want to go home, relax, and be
who they are ! It also affects families because Homework trouble =
school trouble = family trouble. It is the rare for a child to enjoy
homework F.Y.I. .For some students they can be stressed out when they
get home and throw fits and for all students they have been exercising
their brains at school all day long and at home they are supposed to
relax their brain for the next day at school, and if you are not
remembering good blame it on the teacher for putting the subject at
the wrong time when the students are tired (after recess etc.) or the
teacher is not explaining it good.

Some teachers do not answer a students question which would of

helped the student to learn better and teachers always used to say to
me Learning is fun! well I think now math and school now is a lot
harder than in the 70s and 80s and put for an example a 10 year old in
fifth grade with 6 1/2 hours of school and 45-50 minutes of homework
and remember 2013 math is A LOT harder than 80s and 70s math so
do you think you would be having fun? and I also want to state that
homework causes cases of kids hating school (like me). So that
concludes the end of my persuasive essay top three reasons homework
is bad: overwhelming, interference and dislike.

One country named Finland has already fixed their school system there
is no homework there is recess for 75 minutes, 9-17 students per class
and no tests until you are 16 years old.

Homework wastes time

Homework is a serious waste of time, there are some benefits of
homework but the negatives out-rule the benefits by a mile. Most
teachers say homework helps responsibility and our knowledge but this
is not true. I as student personally think that kids are responsible and
organize ourselves better than our teachers at times. On a weekday,
this is my usual agenda,
Wake up in the morning, Catch the bus, Get off at the correct stop, take
a train, and walk 10 minutes to my school. I then have to go to the
school office and drop off my phone, and my wallet. I then have to walk
to my locker and get out my keys (if I forget them I have to walk to the
Principles office which is quite far away and get the master key) and get
out my books. I have to carry them to Homeroom and since I have a job
as Office Monitor I have to collect any forms from the other kids and go
all the way down to the General Office and drop them off. I then have to
go to whatever room we have Period 1 in. Since I go on my own, I have
to know where everything is and what room to go to, I cant just follow a
classmate like most kids in my class do. If I am late that automatically
means a 2 hour detention for me. Just my luck that my name is first on
the roll call list. I do my work for that session and do the same until
recess. At recess I go to the office, collect my money and buy myself
lunch. I then have to survive another 3 sessions. I then catch the bus
and go home so thats organized for you! I have written 300 words so Im
done with my homework! My name is Anthony and I am 14 years old.
OTHER DEBATE POINTS ( HOMEWORK SHOULD BE BANNED )

Homework has little educational worth and adds nothing to the

time spent in school. Some schools an...
Homework has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school.
Some schools and some countries dont bother with homework at all, and their
results do not seem to suffer from it. Studies show that homework adds nothing to
standardised test scores for primary/ elementary pupils. International comparisons of
older students have found no positive relationship between the amount of homework
set and average test scores. If anything, countries with more homework got worse
results!

Homework is almost always done when a child is already tired

from a long day at school. As a result...
Homework is almost always done when a child is already tired from a long day at
school. As a result few students are at their best when they sit down in the evening
to yet more work. Homework ends up being done in a hurry, by students fighting
fatigue, and poor quality work is produced. Worse still, students who have been up
late trying to finish off their homework, then come tired into school the next day, and
so are less ready to learn. Really, what is the point?

Setting homework does little to develop good study skills. It is

hard to check whether the homework...
Setting homework does little to develop good study skills. It is hard to check whether
the homework students produce is really their own. Some students have always
copied off others or got their parents to help them. But today there is so much
material available on the internet that teachers can never be sure. It would be better
to have a mixture of activities in the classroom which help students to develop a
whole range of skills, including independent learning.

Homework produces large amount of pointless work of little

educational value, but marking it ties up...
Homework produces large amount of pointless work of little educational value, but
marking it ties up much of teachers time. This leaves teachers tired and with little
time to prepare more effective, inspiring lessons. The heavy workload also puts
young graduates off becoming teachers, and so reduces the talent pool from which
schools can recruit.

Homework puts students off learning. Studies have shown that

many children find doing homework very...
Homework puts students off learning. Studies have shown that many children find
doing homework very stressful, boring and tiring. Often teachers underestimate how
long a task will take, or set an unrealistic deadline. Sometimes because a teacher
has not explained something new well in class, the homework task is impossible. So
children end up paying with their free time for the failings of their teachers. They also
suffer punishments if work is done badly or late. After years of bad homework
experiences, it is no wonder that many children come to dislike education and switch
off, or drop out too early.

Homework takes a lot of time up. Being young is not just about
doing school work. It should also a...
Homework takes a lot of time up. Being young is not just about doing school work. It
should also about being physically active, exploring the environment through play,
doing creative things like music and art, and playing a part in the community. It is
also important for young people to build bonds with others, especially family and
friends, but homework often squeezes the time available for all these things.

Homework is a class issue. In school everyone is equal, but at

home some people have advantages bec...
Homework is a class issue. In school everyone is equal, but at home some people
have advantages because of their family background. Middle-class families with
books and computers will be able to help their children much more than poorer ones
can. This can mean working class children end up with worse grades and more
punishments for undone or badly done homework. On the other hand pushy parents
may even end up doing their kids homework for them cheating. And homework is
one of the most common causes of family arguments.