Homework should be banned

Homework should be banned because we are at school all day and then we get home and do more school work. At times teachers tend to give a lot of homework which often overwhelms the student outside of school and leaves very little time for extracurricular activities, part time jobs, or time spent with family.In my opinion homework should be banned, because it has a little academic benefit at all,cause conflict between parents and children, and It keeps kids up at night stressing and sleep deprived.

According to CBS New York reports a New Jersey "Mother sent an email plea to fellow parents in Maple wood and South Orange, N.J., to join her in a crusade to get rid of homework.(Parent dish May 23,2011). Lots of the time teachers give out homework in every class not even caring about what the homework other teachers gave us.
This is one of the reasons why students don't do their homework and they will fail the class because homework is time wasting and they never finish or turn it in.

Also homework can strain on the parent and child relationship because they argue over doing the homework. For example if the child wants to watch T. V. and the parent wants the child to do their homework, there is a beginning of an argument. Parents lose their patience because they are having to spend their time helping their child with their homework.

Homework keeps kids up all night doing homework,and do not get enough sleep, and this can result in serious consequences, impairing school performance and even raising the risk of depression. According to the National Sleep Foundation ..."Teenagers Yet many have to get up by 6 a.m. or earlier to get to school for a class that starts at 7:30 or 8 a.m. More than a few doze off during that class, and often the next one as well. Even if awake, they’re in no condition to learn much of anything". Also Dr. Carskadon said in an interview. “Students are not awake enough to attend to information they’re supposed to be learning, their knowledge acquisition is impaired and their ability to retrieve information is reduced. What is learned during the day is consolidated during sleep.”(New York Times May 23, 2011).

Once again homework is not necessary. I really, strongly think that more kids would stay in school and have a better learning experience if they did not have the stress of homework. All of these arguments can possibly lead to No Homework.



http://www.parentdish.com/2011/05/23/should-homework-be-banned/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/29/homework.ban
http://www.memory-key.com/improving/strategies/children/homework