Homework+Pros+and+Cons+Essay

In the documentary “Race to Nowhere,” by Vicki Abeles it expressed how students feel overwhelmed about their homework load increasing. Schools now are limiting their homework to make the students feel less stressed. Many people are happy about the schools actually taking initiative of the issue. Others believe we need homework to help us improve academically. There are good and bad qualities of homework witch I will explain and I will contribute my own opinion as well. Is having homework a bad thing? Many people feel that it is. Students feel like their whole lives revolve around school work. “By expecting kids to work a “second shift” in what should be their downtime, the presence of school work at home is negatively affecting the health of our young people and the quality of family time,” expressed Vicki Abeles. They go straight to their room to do their homework and are up there all night .They don’t even eat dinner with their family because they have to do it. Many parents are beginning to feel like their losing their children to homework. The students are becoming so stressed that it is causing them to cheat and to get sick. Children shouldn’t be this stressed out at this age. They need to be enjoying life while they still can. We need to have fun and have other things to do besides homework or we might go crazy. Many people feel like their childhood as been taken away from them because they felt pressured to do well in school. Why are we pressuring children so much just to succeed? The increasing of homework has pushed student over the edge leading them to commit suicide. “They shouldn’t be bombarded with homework,” states Ms. Cushlanis a mother of triplets. Not only is your kid getting loads of homework more than half of it is busy work. This is homework that has no point to it but, to take up the students’ time. Why are they giving us homework that is useless? The students could be hanging out with friends or actually having quality family time other than doing their homework. Vicki abeles explain that, “there is simply no proof that most of the homework as we know it improves school performances.” So why give homework at all?

Homework can influence young people. When you have homework you have to do it and turn it in at a certain time which teaches children responsibility. To be responsible is a skill you need in life. As you get older you can’t just show up at your job anytime you feel like it you need to be responsible. Another reason why having homework helps us go over stuff that we didn’t have time to go over in class. In the article “New Recruit in Homework Revolt,” stated that “there isn’t enough time in the school day to cover required topics and that homework reinforces classroom learning.” If we didn’t have homework we would be missing out on a lot of learning.

Many people believe that homework really helps students to succeed. Having homework lets us master the material that we just learned because we are practicing the material. A student Ben explained, “If I didn’t have homework, I don’t think I’d do very well. It is practice for what we learn in school.” Homework allows us to practice everything that we learned and when there is a test coming up it allows us to go over the things we didn’t get and use it to study. “Most of our kids can’t spell without spell heck or add unless it comes up on the computer,” said Karol Ball. “If we coddle them when they’re younger, what happens when they get into the real world? No one’s going to say to them, ‘you don’t have to work extra hard to get that project done; just turn in what you got.’ ” Homework helps us to achieve academically. Many countries like China are inventing more and more things and having homework allows us to be competitive with them. Over all homework is just a tool to help us to in prove.

I think homework is bad and good because I like homework and sometimes I don’t. If we didn’t have homework I would most likely fail all my classes because I would probably forget everything I learned right when I walked out of my classroom door. I like homework because I’m able to use it as a study guide for an upcoming test by going over the problems I didn’t understand and practice it. It helps me to do really well on a test. I don’t get that much homework like people said I would get when going to Foothill so having homework doesn’t bother me. The only thing I don’t like about homework is when I get busy work because I could be doing other things instead of doing my homework. I also don’t like having homework for vacation because I just want to relax and enjoy my vacation. All in all, I don’t mind having homework.

As you can see in some ways homework can be bad and it can also be good. Will the anti – homework movement spread. Leading schools nationwide to decrease our homework load too? Or will people realize how much homework is important to our learning? Who knows where this will lead us. Only time will tell.