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Should Homework Be Banned?

This position paper argues that homework should be banned for several reasons: 1) Homework takes up valuable time that students could spend being physically active, exploring creative activities, spending time with family and friends, and getting enough sleep. 2) Homework provides little educational benefit and international comparisons show no relationship between homework and improved test scores. It produces a large amount of pointless work with little value. 3) Homework causes stress for students and families, can decrease student performance, and is a common cause of family arguments. It is an inequitable practice that favors students from privileged family backgrounds. 4) Teachers' valuable time is taken up marking homework, leaving less time for preparing engaging lessons,

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Should Homework Be Banned?

This position paper argues that homework should be banned for several reasons: 1) Homework takes up valuable time that students could spend being physically active, exploring creative activities, spending time with family and friends, and getting enough sleep. 2) Homework provides little educational benefit and international comparisons show no relationship between homework and improved test scores. It produces a large amount of pointless work with little value. 3) Homework causes stress for students and families, can decrease student performance, and is a common cause of family arguments. It is an inequitable practice that favors students from privileged family backgrounds. 4) Teachers' valuable time is taken up marking homework, leaving less time for preparing engaging lessons,

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POSITION PAPER

September 2019

Affiliation: Marinduque National High School


Topic:Should assignment be banned?
Delegates:Ramon Jacob Laugo/ Kenchin Rontal

Homework as define as task assigned to students by school teacher intended to be carried


our during non-school hours. It is one of the unique evils that all of us can relate, whether in
plagued are evenings and weekends

School and colleges often give homework’s to student. Sometimes they get new and
unknown assignment to do. Homework is an unavoidable fact of life for everyone. Our parents
had to do it, we had to do it, and so on and forth. Actually making the thing worse, many people
are starting to think that it may cause more trouble than it’s really worth. The overburdening of
the work load on students that may been showing negative effects in their academic as well as
their home life. While the purpose the homework is to improve students understanding and seem
to believe that this homework will help students in their academic career.

This paper aims to debunk the positive effects of having homework’s; however,
this paper will also examine the negative effects of having homework’s in school.

Homework is a vital and valuable part of education. There are only few hours in each
school day- not enough time to cover properly all the subjects children need to study. Setting
homework extends study beyond school hours, allowing a wider and deeper education. It also
makes the best use of teachers, who can spend lesson time teaching rather than just supervising
individual work that could be done at home. Tasks such as reading, writing essays, researching,
doing maths problem, etc. are best done at home, away from the distractions of other student.

Homework has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school. Some
schools and some countries don’t bother with homework at all, and their results do not seem to
suffer from it. Studies show that homework adds nothing to standardise 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’s produces large amount of pointless work of little educational value, but
marking it ties up much of teacher’s time. This leaves teachers tired and with little time to
prepare more effective, inspiring lessons. They heavy workload also puts young graduates off
becoming teachers, and so reduces the talent pool from which schools can recruit.

Homework’s 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 because of their family background. Homework is one of the most common causes of
family arguments.

Homework can put too much stress to students and family, can cause decrease of
performances of students and when students don’t have the teacher they may not have enough
sleep.

In conclusion, homework doesn’t work. As shown by numerous studies it brings no


educational benefits and act as a root cause of conflict between children’s. Homework is more
closely associated with punishment than with pleasure. So, homework should be banned.

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