Debate Here!WikiAnswer Contributors, what do you think?
Should you stay in school longer, and have time to finish all your homework, or should you stay with the system you have now, where you leave school earlier and have work to do once you get home?
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* I think longer school hours would be good. Lots of parents work until 5 pm, so having school until 5 would mean kids don't have to go home alone and they could finish their work and have time to play when they got home.
* Kids should get less homework because it wastes to much of their time and most of the stuff they get don't even further their eduction. My brother gets a tenth of the howork i got in his grades. **you also need a spell-check**
* Less Homework is the best!
* Homework is more trouble than its worth. Parents and children argue because of the fact that we don't like it. It does not even help most people, and those it does help should do it, if they want. It also causes teenagers and children, to be stressful this is because home work takes to much time and it . It causes more trouble then its worth and therefore should be banned.
* Looking at the answers above, it seems that homework has already been banned, judging by the grammatical infelicities which abound!
* I do not believe anybody should have homework for many reasons: 1) Studys have shown that most adult back problems come from heavy backpacks *supervisor's note: need citation for proof of this statistic* 2) Most children go to school for 71/2 to 8 hours a day do we really need more? 3) Children that have a lot of homework have a very poor relationship with there family *again, need some proof* 4) Last but defidently not least, Kids need fresh air and fun they don't want to stay inside doing homework all day and they get very stressed out!
* Homework is an attempt to teach things other than just the lessons. A child needs to learn how to budget their time. They need to learn to take responsibility for their own learning and their own future. It's a cop out to say that it splits families and prevents them from getting exercise. 8 hours a day? I don't know what school district you're in, but most places limit the school day to less than 7 hours.
* Books and the backbacks that carry them aren't required to do homework. Most homework consists of a worksheet or some questions that need to be done. And many school district now make the books available online.
* They do so much work in school they should not have to do it at home to now if you do not finish it in school then it should be for homework. kids shouldn't have homerwork because homework is like practice and they've been at school all day which is also like practice. so it's like bringing the stress from school back at home to do more practice! isn't 8 hours of practice enough?
* the horrible grammar of the answer above is proof that homework must be needed
*I agree entirely with the previous answer, but feel the need to add that teaching is partly to blame - clearly homework on its own could be unproductive if the correct steer has not been given by the teacher (My daughter is a teacher, I believe she does her best!).
*kids do not go to sleep and it is bad for them because they coud go crazy
*We Should Have No Homework And Go Home At Normal Time 3.15 Because 5 Lesson's A Day That's Like 35 Lesson's A Week IS ENOUGH
*There are some people who think that homework does not help learning - go figure.
*The Paradox: If a teacher cannot teach what is necessary in their allotted time to the extent that they regularly need to encroach on private recreational time to get their material across, then they either have less than 5 hours a week to teach or they are a poor teacher. Think about it- if any other professional wasted people's time with unnecessary repetition, it would not be tolerated. It is too bad society has accepted homework as not only mandatory participation in learning but also a fixture in curriculum.
*This one's from someone who obviously needs to do a bit more homework in order to learn how to speak English: i HATE homework. i know it is supose to help me and bla bla bla, but can't they at least make it fun or creative and not as much to do? i remember things by finding connections and or things i can remember. i remember the 19th amendment lets women vote because my social studies teacher did a funny little beat box thing to it. i remember a plants cell is rectangular because we did a fun activitey in science class. i remember a complementary angle is the right angle because i made the angle into a mouth giving a complement.we need small, personalized homework assinments instead of a one size supposedly fits all piece of paper with dum questions that make little to no sence.
*The reason we have homework is because of the people who can't spell when complaining about homework.
*Yes we have to learn but come on... school is were u should do school. its like taking our free time away we do have lives
*yes !! that's what i think. homework takes away our free time!! we have much better things to do than HOMEWORK!! we should do school things at SCHOOL. NOT at our houses. that's why they invented SCHOOL WORK!! come on...
*Homework is a necessary evil. Learning is a LIFELONG process - not just a SCHOOL thing. If you want to get better at anything - anything being sports, arts, Musical Instruments, gaming whatever - you have to practice. Homework gives you all the things you need to practice your school learning at home so you get better. Im sure no one would be complaining if the homework was to hone their PlayStation skills!!!!
*Honestly i don't even do my homework but that's because so many teachers give you homework thinking that they're the only ones giving you homework or they think their subject is more important. Which it never is. I don't get the point of it and why do they think detention is "scary"? It just means i have another excuse not to do my homework coz i don't have alot of free time on my hands.
*homework sucks teachers don't understand how much stuff we have to do outside of school like chores and maybe 4 some people sports or dance. they don't understand that if we do these things we don't have time to do homeword or we have to stay up all night just to finish it then they wonder y we fallin asleep in class or school period. 4 example i take dance on saturdays and they give me homework over the weekend i have dance from 9am to 7pm now usually u like to relax over the weekend but with the homework they give me its like having school 7 days a week. and after school i have swimming class i catch the bus and don't get home till like 7 and still have to eat dinner and do dishes and take a bath or shower and do some chores after that im tired so its hard to do it all and sometimes i have to get up early in the morning to finish it but i never even go to sleep till lk 11 or 12 so i only sleep 4 a little while its not fair.
*now homework might be stressful but it tells u where u r n school so if u do home work it tells u where u need help in some subject so the teacher can help u other than that it just plain sucks
*First, let me just say that the reason why they assign so much homework is because of the fact that, kids like you all, cannot spell or write a paragraph right. If you would pay attention in class, then you would have no problem with homework.
Second, it's because of kids like you all that teachers and adults talk down about us all the time. I go to high school with so many kids that still don't know how to read, write, spell, or write a sentence correctly that it reflects on me. It reflects on students that actually pay attention and do what they are told but, because of the fact that the majority of the students don't care, that the smart ones are treated like they're dumb.
*Kids need less homework but they still need a bit. There is no need to have heaps of it, perhaps 1 or 2 a week. However you should not extend school time unless it is only extended by half an hour / 15 minutes. I think this because children already get a headache towards the end of the day so if school hours are extended then by the time they get home they will be taking pain killers. Also if it isn't extended then children will have more time to get fresh air and play with there friends.
*Whether or not homework is done at school, by extending school hours, or at home, by keeping "regular" hours, homework is an essential part of the learning process. While not everyone responding in this question has missed that point, many have, sadly to see. Homework emphasizes the lessons learned in class, and serves to reinforce the brain's long term storage and availability of the information given. There are very few of us that have true eidetic memory. (I'm close, but not a true eidetic and, yes, I had to do homework!) As a result, it is nearly impossible to sit in class and watch the lecture, and expect to retain it without any further exercise. Homework is essential. Think of it this way... When you first learned to ride a bicycle, the principle was explained to you. Did you then get on the bicycle and ride it perfectly the first time without falling down? I don't think so. You practiced. You made mistakes, you tried again, you made adjustments, and you eventually learned how to ride a bicycle. There is no difference between that and homework. Without homework, you may as well give up on eduction, and that is not an option. Do homework. If you are a parent, force the doing of homework. The parent has a job, bringing home an income. If he or she did not do that job, they would get fired and lose the job and income. The student's job is to learn. They must, amongst other things, do homework. If they don't do their job, they flunk. The student's job is to learn, not to play games, not to while away their time chatting with friends, not to see "what Sally is doing with David", but to pay attention to their own job of learning. Do your homework!
*I agree with the fact that NO ONE should EVER have homework because it is a waste of time, energy, and it can give kids stress. Homework can also get in the way of fresh air, studying for important tests, reading, and practicing sports/musical instruments. Unfortunately, most homework is horribly arduous.
But, I also believe that homework is necessary. Without it, kids probably wouldn't know how to spell or understand (for example) chemical equations or the meaning of the spanish word "haber." I also agree with the fact that homework helps kids understand how to manage time (even though when I think about managing time, this makes me even more stressed, and as a result, I am wasting time).
Also, we should keep the normal 6-8 hour school day and have it Tuesday through Friday (Monday seems to always be a kind of sad/bad day). Instead of going from 6 to 2 (or 7 AM, whenever people wake up), we should wake up for school around 7:30 or 8 and arrive at/start school around 9:20. This would at least seem better than waking up at 6 AM and having to suffer from then to about 11 AM (or whatever time people wake up normally on weekends/summer vacation). We would then leave school around 2:30, get home around 3, and still have some time to do.
*Because back two hundred years ago we weren't given these types of things,and people missed out.
* I think it is a good idea to have longer school hours, but no homework. That way we already do all our learning at school and when we get home we don't have to worry about doing MORE school stuff because then i lets you go to bed late and less sleep and a million more reasons...
