Essays on Homework

Education has been crucial in the formation of our society, and so has homework. Homework has been around since public schooling was invented, and thus, it’s a rarely questioned practice. However, homework has fallen under extreme controversy in the recent years, with some talking about...

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...

Homework is something that every kid in school gets. They get it usually after finishing a lesson or chapter and have to do it at home. The amount of homework has increased in the years. I’m fine with a little homework here and there, but...

According to DoSomething.org “Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day” (“11 Facts About High School Dropout Rates”). The quality of life these students are giving...

Every school in the world at one point has given their students homework on weekends and holiday breaks, and that isn’t fair to the students. Every year students must go to school 10 out of the 12 months in a year. Every week us students...

The movie “Hot Chick” is a movie that uses a stereotypical view to tell a story about a cheer leading captain. Therefore it is obviously set in her everyday surroundings. However, the movie starts in a completely different setting. The story begins in what looks...

Has the insatiable urge to shred to pieces a never-ending tsunami of words on paper ever seem familiar? The name given to this self afflicting torture is homework. One would think that students leave the classroom with a sense of accomplishment gained due to the...

Do students of secondary school in Kazakhstan really have strong reasons for not doing homework given at school? Homework is studying that students do at home to prepare for school. It is considered as a tool of reinforcing the knowledge gained in classroom. However, in most cases work given by teachers at school...

Homework is defined as tasks assigned to students by school teachers that are intended to be carried out during nonschool hours.Homework was invented by Robert Nevilis in 1905. He was a teacher who thought students needed more practice at home to understand about the lesson....

Homework, form the word itself; it is academic work that should be done in home. It was given to the students to give an extra activity to extend their learning’s, and sometimes to give an idea about the next topic. We all know that homework...

‘Should we experience the usual?’, we, individuals usually ask what is the next chapter in our lives, but what we know is that it was never new to us- to be completely clueless about tomorrow on our own, since our answer remains firm. We always...

What a weekend with bond and relaxation? After schools being stress-free? Isn`t it more convenient spending happiness than stressing ourselves over and over again everyday? We should be spending our time at home with things like doing ants,listening to music,playing sports,having quality time with our...

No homework policy by our government had a greater help in building stronger student-parents relation because no homework policy is privilege to them it has pleasant impact in each part of family especially for the student. Students can relax every weekend away through theirs notes...

If we were to make a schedule for a high-school student, a schedule full of ‘averages,’ ‘shoulds,’ and ‘ideals,’ we would need a 26 hour day to fit in every activity. However, we don’t have 26 hours in the day, which is why schools should...

I was born and raised in Cameroon, a country in central Africa that owns several natural resources; but, still considered underdeveloped. The accessibility of all this wealth diminished my understanding of our economic turmoil. I needed to know why we couldn’t improve our standard of...

80% of school students agree that they’re often, if not always stressed by homework. Homework is work given out by teachers to complete at home after school hours, used to further the pupils knowledge. However, research suggests there are more disadvantages to assigning homework than...

My Declaration of Independence from Unnecessary and Gratuitous Homework, The opportunities the American education system has provided to me, my peers, and my parents before me have bettered our lives immeasurably. The opinion of many officials in the system is that rigor amounts to success...