No homework should be given to students

Proper education is essential in a person’s development; that’s why we send our kids to school.

Kids enjoy coming to school everyday because they look forward to interacting with other students, joining clubs, making new friends, and getting involved. 

Despite the fact that students like showing up to school for these reasons, homework ruins it all. 

Students are required to sit eight hours at school, listening to their teachers, taking notes, and completing classwork. They are then required to go home and find extra time to complete homework from every individual class. Which is not okay. The amount of homework being assigned is so unrealistic that kids come home to a second version of school.

Kids should be given no homework from teachers. 45 minutes in class should be more than enough time for a teacher to be able to teach a subject and for students to work on an assignment in class. Instead, teachers take up the whole period talking, won’t give students time to work on anything, and assign homework the last two minutes of class.

No time

Now that everything has gone back to normal, things are getting more hectic. Many students are on top of staying involved in high school whether it’s joining a sport, club, or volunteering. This takes up a lot of time in a student’s day. High school students are assigned 3.5 hours of homework per night. Their day consists of eight hours of school, 2-3 hours of an extracurricular activity, homework, homework, homework, and then sleep. It’s a daily cycle.

Kids are juggling work coming out of seven classes everyday: it’s difficult to manage it all. 

E-learning really changed students’ ways of learning. Kids were so used to underperforming in school, and now that things are back to old norms, they are struggling. Additionally, after e-learning, kids need to figure out new ways to actually study for tests, because kids were mostly receiving help from their peers and not doing anything for themselves.

Many people I know are currently failing their classes; they still haven’t caught up to the fast pace of learning and all the nonstop work being assigned by every teacher. They are stressed and overwhelmed with getting it all done and still finding time for themselves.

Lack of sleep

KIDS NEED SLEEP!! Teens are so busy that when teachers pile homework on top of everything, kids can’t find time to do it. Because kids stay up late, trying to get work completed, they are really tired the next day. Kids should be getting about 8-10 hours of sleep daily. But with all the work, they are not getting anything close to those hours and are sacrificing their sleep. Academically, kids who go to bed and get up early score better than those who stay up late — even to do homework. The lack of sleep students experience affects how well they do in school.

Get rid of it

If a math teacher was to assign a page of math problems to a student, that’s understandable. The kid is given these problems as extra practice out of the classroom. During the class period, they do everything with the teacher; by doing an extra assignment at home, students get the opportunity to try to solve problems on their own. 

The homework also helps the teacher know if the lessons being taught in class are well comprehended by the students. 

But see, here’s the thing: why can’t those few math problems be incorporated in class? Although they may say it’s extra practice, any teacher can say they have a few problems or questions they want their students to try answering on their own. Or, they claim they assign only ten minutes of work to do at home. This is the entire problem: every student works differently. Ten minutes of homework for one student might be 30 for another; it depends on how fast they complete their work. The whole point of school is to learn and practice new concepts in class. There should be no reason why that’s not possible to cram in during school hours. 

If the child has grasped the concept –why do they have to prove it by doing it ten more times? However, extra practice is pointless if the student doesn’t understand what they are supposed to do. How does doing it at home, alone, help them when they can’t do it? Kids can’t grasp the idea and parents are unable to help. Parents want to do it one way, but the kid argues back that that is not what they were taught. This leaves both the kid and the parent frustrated not being able to complete the assignment. So, after eight hours of school, there should be absolutely no work assigned outside of the class.