Homework Should Be Removed from School Activities

Going to a college-prep private school for my six through ninth grade year, I was very familiar with homework. Each of my seven plus classes gave me approximately one hour of homework per night allowing me little to no time to play sports, hangout with my family, chat with friends, or sleep. Because of the overpowering homework schedule given to mere middle schoolers, often times we found ourselves hurting in the class because we could not get everything complete. Homework seemed to only hurt me in the classes I was understanding well in, and killed me in the classes I was having a hard time in.

No student has ever been excited about the prospect of homework. When the teacher begins to assign any extra work after class, she is usually met with a unanimous sigh of her group of students. We dislike the thought of extra work and think of it as a burden. Homework can hinder students from doing extracurricular activities and building social skills which can be important in a child’s life. And getting filled up with homework can make a person dislike and dread school and what they are learning.

What student looks at extra work and thinks that it actually helps them learn more? The student learns in the classroom with the help of the teacher not by themselves after the fact.

Why we should Ban Homework

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When a student is taught something in the classroom, they will either pay attention and get it and then go forward from there. Or if the student is not listening or chooses to not ask the teacher for help, then they will not simply get it. If the student understands in the classroom and then is given homework on the subject, they will breeze through it well, but is the homework even helping if they already know how to do the subject. It is the same way if the student does not understand the premise of the lesson. How is homework going to help if they do not understand what they are doing? It is not.

The Huffington Post did some research and found that no study has proven that homework helps in the younger years of school. And does not have a strong correlation with standardized testing in High School. Which means that students who produced homework did not have a significantly higher test score than those who did not. Research also found that students who did homework versus students who didn’t, did not have substantial differences in grades. Which proves that homework does not teach the students any extra or helps them lock in ideas better. This study pretty much renders homework as a useless tool. The study of Huffington Post finishes off that this informatilon fails to find any benefit of the doubt for homework’s importance.