Homework should be banned?

[Niluial]

So should Homework be banned? Give a good reason to your answer not just because!

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Nilly

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[ElberethVarda]

Homework is given to "reinforce" whatever the students have learned. It helps you remeber what you learned better. I'm much more likely to remeber something if I had it beaten in to my skull. But then, everyone is not like me.

Homework also helps you learn more. You might learn more reading those ten pages of text than you did in the whole class.

I think the reason most students don't like homework is because they leave it off until late.

I don't think homework should be banned is my point.

This was my first debate, so don't feed me to the wolves, please.

[Elentari]

I don't believe that homework should be banned, but I do think it can sometimes be rediculous. The amount of homework some teachers hand out is too much by itself, let alone on top of what all the other teachers give out. However, you are right in saying that it's only hard because people leave it 'til too late. The longer you leave it, the harder it gets.

Oh... and we won't feed you to the wolves... <-- look at the teeth on that!

[InklingElf]

As a student, the most predictable opinion would be to ban homework.

I have debated this in a formal style in class last year, and have come to the conclusion that it should NOT be banned, due to the fact that it indeed, is useful in the learning environment esp. in pop-quizzes, tests, med-terms--the likes.

Perhaps, it can be taken in a negative way--but it is part of the reason we are able to further our understanding in school subjects etc.

[Dragoneyes]

I'm going to go against the general veiw here and say that homework should be banned. If teachers wish to give us extra work then I believe they should give us extra time. I would prefer to have a longer school day and be able to go home and relax (for the most part).

With homework, we go to school and do work, then come home and do work; there is no place of rest or sanctuary.

If you do not understand your homework when you get it, then you have to use your break times at school to find the teacher to explain it to you, but if you do understand it, then homework does nothing more than show that you understand something, which can easily be found out by a simple question.

I believe that I, at least, have more than enough to do without homework. Revision, I can accept as it is often the pupil's choice so that they can do their best in an exam. But I find the rest too much, it is as though we are being punished for doing nothing wrong. I know that it is not the same for everyone, but homework (and we are meant to do up to 2 1/2 hours hours of the stuff a night) added to practice for three instruments and music theory just takes up too much of my time.

And the teachers are surprised when I turn up to school with no homework!

[Mippin]

I'll side up with Dragoneyes here and say that homework should indeed be banned.

Students are sent to school to learn, and it takes up most of their life. When a student comes home, it is their time to spend with family. (even if many a child doesn't...)

True as it may be that each student has a different way of learning, is it not the teacher's responsibility to make note of that students differences and make sure that he/she can learn the material?

It must be wondered if perhaps the reason that students need this reinforcement is because the teacher is at fault. If indeed the teacher was successful in teaching his or her class well and in the time provided then it may not be necessary students to have homework.

To throw an example around, when a teacher gets mad with the students, generally he or she simply gives the students more homework. How does this help if the teacher spends all his/her time yelling at the class and not explaining how to do the homework? Then we must ask, how is homework in this particular case reinforcing anything at all?

Here's another, a teacher who uses effective disciplinary means, and makes note of each students individual way of learning- then a class period would run smoothly and the teacher would likely give little to no homework.

Comparing the two, perhaps we can conclude that homework is doled out to students from anger and lack of discipline in the classroom. It has been done ever and anon and gotten students virtually nowhere (from my observations...) So I must ask, is homework truly a way for students to reinforce their learning or more over a punishment?

I believe that if the teacher could teach a class properly, homework would not be nessecary.

To conclude, I think that homework should be banned and that teachers should take more disciplinary means in the classroom.

[InklingElf]

...Perhaps it mainly depends on the type of teacher you have -- that much is obvious. And if a teacher proves to be unreasonable -- a course of action must follow through. I have not heard of one single concrete arguement that could go against this.