1. HOMEWORK SHOULD BE BANNED
PRO
Homework absolutely must be banned, for many logical reasons. It is not right, and
must be abolished immediately.
First of all, homework has been proven to be counterproductive. Homework causes
stress, confusion and anxiety in students. And it's no wonder, since teachers have
been piling homework onto students, turning a 6 hour school day into an 8 hour
one. For this reason, many students have trouble sleeping, and end up going to bed
ridiculously late. Homework has even shown to have a negative effect on younger
students' grades, and minimal effects on older students' grades. So why is
homework necessary? Banning it will remove these negative effects on younger
students' grades, and will stop all problems such as loss of motivation, anxiety,
lack of sleep, stress, confusion, you name it. Homework has even created loss of
motivation, and students want less to go to school. It is vital for homework to be
banned.
Secondly, homework takes up the precious time of students AND teachers. Every
day, pupils are required to wake up at dawn, drag themselves to school, come
home, and then have to pack everything they do into the short space of about 3-4
hours. Home work takes on average 2 hours, leaving approxiametely 1-2 hours left
for everything else. Seems tight? You bet. This leads to lack of sleep because of
the tight schedule. This can also result in children avoiding homework and getting
punished, when the overload was not necessary in the first place. Not only does
2. homework waste students' time, but teachers' time too, since they have to mark
homework, when they could be planning lessons, and making fun classes.
Homework drags children away from sport and socialising, to more education.
This does not help children and their other hobbies one bit.
Finally, students may not be able to understand homework, shattering their
confidence. This can make them feel nervous leading up to important exams and
tests. This also makes students feel like they have to study like mad, so they know
everything in time for the exam. Students will know whether they need to study or
not, without homework smashing their confidence before they can study anything.
Also, homework which is too easy will only give them a false confidence, making
them stressed at exams. Either way, homework does not help personal study. Also,
studies suggest that homework which is too hard does not help childrens' brains,
but confuses. So homework is confusing children, and killing their confidence.
As you can see, homework is extremely unsuccessful, and must be banned. It is
counter productive, wastes precious time, and is often not understandable, causing
countless problems. Homework should be banned.
3. KONTRA
It is crucial that homework should not be banned. Even the thought is unfounded.
Homework should certainly not be banned for many reasons.
First of all, homework increases your mental ability. Studies have shown that
people who do more homework or studying are more likely to be smarter, rather
than the people who don"t. This unaided just proves why homework is of such
great importance. People need to do well in tests, which will help them to get a job
in the future. Being intelligent just helps you all through life. Homework makes
you cleverer, and if this is the case, why would you want to sanction it"this
impression is just erroneous on so many levels. Continuing on, surveys have even
shown that homework dramatically increases your smartness. Furthermore,
homework also helps you to work at your own pace. At school, you work at the
same pace as everyone around you more or less. When set homework is given to
you, it"s your chance to work independently, giving you many great qualities such
as independence (that"s a given), individuality and much, much more. This is also
good because when you get to university you will have great study skills. The
skills that homework gives you are vital to your everyday life.
Moreover, homework also gives you something stimulating to do. It is imperative
to develop good brain patterns when you are young and doing homework can help
you to achieve this. It"s very important that kids spend their time doing something
productive and stimulating, otherwise all your brainpower is going to go to waste.
When children get home from school, homework prevents them from wasting their
lives playing video games and other unhealthy activities. Continuing on, you may
argue that sport and other extra-curricular activities such as sport and socialising
4. give your brain the same amount of "exercise" as homework, but this is just not
spot-on. A fantastic way to stimulate your brain is to do homework. We need a
balance between sport, socialising, and education. Homework provides this
education.
So, evidently, it is clear to see that homework should unquestionably not be banned
because it gives you something stimulating to do, improves your mental ability,
helps you to work at your own pace and helps maintain an educational balance in
your life
