Opinion Story
If you were to ask me if homework was really necessary my answer would be yes. If you asked me if we should have as much homework as we do or if should be for a grade, that's a completely different story. I think that schools have a very unfair grading system and are passing out too much homework for students to handle.
Personally, I think that homework relates to a lot of unreasonable amounts of added stress to students. Not only is it taking up time at home, but it's also putting a dent in students' grades.
Homework is designed to be a review and a good practice so that students can memorize whatever topic they are working on. Schools are making homework seem more like projects or tests. Homework assignments in schools today are long worksheets that are counted as grades!
Assignments that teachers are giving out as homework are starting to test what you know by taking a grade on it, instead of teaching it to you. Schools are counting off points for questions that students got wrong on their homework, lowering their overall grade for that class. This does not seem fair.
It's important to make sure that you know the topic, but students shouldn't be penalized on their homework for not understanding a few parts of it. Instead, the teachers should help students through the stuff that they don't know so that the students will be able to get that A on their tests.
If a student works hard on a problem and ends up getting it wrong on a homework assignment how is that their fault? Of course students do need to work and try hard on homework, which is why it should be counted as a completion grade. This way teachers can assure that students tried to understand their homework, without the need to take off points.
Using this method homework should be corrected without deducting points, so that the student can learn from what they did wrong. Homework needs to stop being used to measure what you know because that's what testing is used for. There should be a clear difference between the two.
Not only is homework being harshly graded but it's also taking up way to much time at home. School ends at 4:30 each day so students can go home and spend the rest of their day with free time, but often times kids get done with school only to come home to more school work.
Studies show that the average high school kid gets anywhere from 12 to 17.5 hours of homework per week and get at least one homework assignments every night.
Many times I have come home from school and started my homework right away and not finish it until midnight, as if seven and a half hours of learning weren't enough! Kids go to a school to learn, so when we come home it shouldn't be a round 2 of learning. It should be a time to allow students brains to rest. Not to mention students still have to make time for after school activities.
I completely understand the fact that homework should be handed out and why teachers think it's a good idea. But I think the only way that homework can be beneficial if it's used as a light review. Homework should be used to keep the brain fresh instead of trying to pound more information into it.
These assignments students have definitely should not take them hours to complete. Homework can keep lazy teenagers from doing nothing all day, but there shouldn't be so much homework to the point where students can't tell the difference between home and school.
I say that each class is allowed to give out a one sided worksheet TOPS! If you work on a problem for at least 10 minutes and can't figure it out don't stress, because nobody can blame you for working hard at and not understanding what you're not finished learning yet.
All I'm saying is that homework is taking way longer than it needs to, and schools need to remember the difference between homework and tests.
Personally, I think that homework relates to a lot of unreasonable amounts of added stress to students. Not only is it taking up time at home, but it's also putting a dent in students' grades.
Homework is designed to be a review and a good practice so that students can memorize whatever topic they are working on. Schools are making homework seem more like projects or tests. Homework assignments in schools today are long worksheets that are counted as grades!
Assignments that teachers are giving out as homework are starting to test what you know by taking a grade on it, instead of teaching it to you. Schools are counting off points for questions that students got wrong on their homework, lowering their overall grade for that class. This does not seem fair.
It's important to make sure that you know the topic, but students shouldn't be penalized on their homework for not understanding a few parts of it. Instead, the teachers should help students through the stuff that they don't know so that the students will be able to get that A on their tests.
If a student works hard on a problem and ends up getting it wrong on a homework assignment how is that their fault? Of course students do need to work and try hard on homework, which is why it should be counted as a completion grade. This way teachers can assure that students tried to understand their homework, without the need to take off points.
Using this method homework should be corrected without deducting points, so that the student can learn from what they did wrong. Homework needs to stop being used to measure what you know because that's what testing is used for. There should be a clear difference between the two.
Not only is homework being harshly graded but it's also taking up way to much time at home. School ends at 4:30 each day so students can go home and spend the rest of their day with free time, but often times kids get done with school only to come home to more school work.
Studies show that the average high school kid gets anywhere from 12 to 17.5 hours of homework per week and get at least one homework assignments every night.
Many times I have come home from school and started my homework right away and not finish it until midnight, as if seven and a half hours of learning weren't enough! Kids go to a school to learn, so when we come home it shouldn't be a round 2 of learning. It should be a time to allow students brains to rest. Not to mention students still have to make time for after school activities.
I completely understand the fact that homework should be handed out and why teachers think it's a good idea. But I think the only way that homework can be beneficial if it's used as a light review. Homework should be used to keep the brain fresh instead of trying to pound more information into it.
These assignments students have definitely should not take them hours to complete. Homework can keep lazy teenagers from doing nothing all day, but there shouldn't be so much homework to the point where students can't tell the difference between home and school.
I say that each class is allowed to give out a one sided worksheet TOPS! If you work on a problem for at least 10 minutes and can't figure it out don't stress, because nobody can blame you for working hard at and not understanding what you're not finished learning yet.
All I'm saying is that homework is taking way longer than it needs to, and schools need to remember the difference between homework and tests.
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