Is Homework Ban the Beginning of a National Revolution?
Yesterday, the CBS Nightly News picked up the story of the homework ban at The Oak Knoll Elementary School in Menlo Park, California, and asked whether Oak Knoll is at the forefront of a homework revolution. I hope so. After a short ad, you can watch the story here.
Yes I beleive it should be a revolution. I am a student myself and do not belive in homework.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:52 am
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homework sucks @$$
April 11th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
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I belive that this ban will either end in dispair or greatness both have an equal chance
April 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
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HOME WORK IS A WAST OF A KIDS TIME WE GO 2 SCHOOL TO LEARN… BUT DO WE REALLY WANT TO LEARN THIS CRAP AT HOME!?! WHEN WE GO HOME WE WONT TO HAVE FUN NOT DO SCHOOL WORK AT HOME!
THATS MY OPINION BUT THE QUESTION IS WHO IS WITH THE HOMEWORK REVOLUTION?
August 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
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MY SCHOOL HAS 30 EXTRA MINUTES OF SCHOOL AND WE HAVE ABOUT 2-3 HOURS OF HOMEWORK EVERY NIGHT AND WE HAVE ABOUT 4 HOURS ON THE WEEKENDS! ITS NOT RIGHT!
October 13th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
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tu cutta hai jo tu homework deta hai
January 28th, 2008 at 8:19 am
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home work takes away time with our family and causes kids to much stress and makes kids to hate learning
March 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
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we have about 7 hours of school a day which is 35 hours a week and at least 2 hours of homework a day for 10 hours a week of homework which is crazy because school work should be done at school and not at home because students need time with there family and friends and homework causes stress because not all student learn the same and need some time out of school to work on it.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:28 am
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ANOTHER THING IS THAT KIDS LEARN MORE WHEN THERE OUT SIDE BECAUSE WHEN WE ARE DOING HOME WORK WE
ARE JUST LOOKING UP ANSWERS AND WRIGHTING THEM DOWN BUT THE ONLY THING WE LEARN IS HOW TO USE A BOOK AND NOTHING IN IT.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:30 am
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homework causes writers cramps, stress, and a diseas called SITTING IN A CHAIR FOR TWO HOURS AND WORKING UR BUTT OFF
March 27th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
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i hate it!
March 27th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
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homework causes cancer and one kid died of it, it is so stupid
September 4th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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I found grammatical or spelling errors in nearly ever comment posted.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
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Ban it. I got no more time from school and work to do it. I need money to do what i want not what teachers want.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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Obviously, MORE homework is needed since almost every post on here has poor spelling, poor grammar, and poor sentence structure!
January 13th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
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Anonymous, if you read The Case Against Homework, and follow it up with The Homework Myth (by Alfie Kohn) you can read hundreds of pages with no errors and an entirely convincing argument. Good writing comes from wide reading, which most of our kids don’t have time for anymore.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
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I think homework should be banned because for me i have like 2 hours of homework an it’s really a big stress and i know how everyone feels. Homework SUCKS. =(
February 10th, 2009 at 9:51 am
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Homework should be banned no matter what
February 16th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
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I disagree with teachers giving out homework. The definition of homework from the encyclopaedia refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed mostly outside of class, and derives its name from the fact that most students do the majority of such work at home. If a teacher gives out homework the teacher is obviously not doing a good job teaching. A sign that you have too much homework is if you hate school. Homework steals time out of a student’s day that could better be spent. I think homework should be banned because it affects kids negatively because kids get stressed out; not all kids are capable of doing homework and homework overload is also affecting their family life.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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I HATE HOMEWORK VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH AND I EVEN HATE SCHOOL MORE
February 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
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i stopped believing in homework a long time ago and its turned out great
February 18th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
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whoever this Anonymous is pissing me off!!!
these are comments, not essays they don’t need to grammatically correct. you can save your grammar for actual school work where we need it. oh and by the way Anonymous check the 4th one down your grammar sucks
February 18th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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I get about 4 hours of homework every night. Thats about 28 hours of homework a week. I don’t feel like I learned anything from it. On 1 week vacations we have to do a whole textbook and copy all the Q&A’s on looseleaf. What a waste.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
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most people do not want homework because they are lazy. it is a proven fact that homework greatly improves a students, who is in junior high and up, knowledge. however homework might improve stress, but it will not enough to effect a students behavior nor mental or physical health
February 26th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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Homework might improve your writing. Or better yet, no homework would give you time to read. You know what they say, good readers make good writers. Unless homework overload has caused you to lose any interest in it.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:34 am
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I HATE FUCKING HOMEWORK I AM IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND IT SUCKS
February 27th, 2009 at 9:10 am
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I would think that if you want to be taken seriously about your thoughts and feelings on homework, and the issue that this website brings to light, then you would use thoughtful more appropriate language.
Or perhaps some homework in social skills would be suitable for you.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
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I feel that if any of the students wish to be taken seriously about their feelings, then it would behoove you to check your grammer, spelling and punctuation. Otherwise, you do not have a case that will ever be taken seriously. Perhaps you are the ones who would benefit from homework….
February 28th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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I can’t argue with you. I’ve made this case many times before. If you post here as a beleaguered student and your grammar and spelling are pathetic, you lose your case. Detractors will cry that you are desperately in need of homework! I would counter that homework hasn’t done you any good. Better someone should have cultivated in you the love of reading and writing. And dare I say some of the worst mechanical error offenders on this forum have been teachers?
Anonymous, I urge you to please pay attention to the eloquent writers on this blog. We’ve had some high achieving teens submit well crafted guest entries where they make their case persuasively.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am
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Remember that on the internet, we have no idea who any of these people are. The folks sending in badly spelled messages full of profanity could easily be 45 year old men with nothing better to do than to stir up a little trouble. Or it might all be the same person! I second HomeworkBlues’ point that this site has had several very well written, thoughtful posts from concerned students.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:04 pm
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FedUpMom, exactly. We don’t know if the vulgar posts are legitimate. I wouldn’t put too much weight on them. Sara might want to take them down as soon as they appear but just like the useless reading log, she has better things to do.
Let’s focus on the well written passionate testimonials that appear here instead.
March 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
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as your mother i forbid u from doing homework
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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Immature rantings of kids (who just don’t want to do homework) aside, I hate that my first-grader is in school for seven hours and then on top of that there is at least an hour of homework (usually a math sheet and some chapter-book reading). So he’s home around three-thirty, done with homework around four-thirty or five, then it’s dinner time. Then he has about an hour of playtime before he has to get ready for bed.
Reading homework?? I love to read to my son, and I have my OWN selection of books from which I want to read. So now our reading time is forcibly doubled — or I have to give up our personal reading time so that he’s not behind in his school reading group. As for the math homework, I can understand that they want to give us an idea of what and how they are learning in the classroom, but a quick memo or a look at completed schoolwork does that.
And this is first grade. What will it be like in the future? Will we have any time together at all on a school night? Granted, bedtimes will be later, but kids need down time.
If my son ever threw up on a book just because of stress – as described elsewhere – I would seriously consider home-schooling. And I DON’T want to home-school!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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I think as parents we are the best advocates for our children and it’s our responsibility to stand up for them when they can’t. I think we need to take a stand against so much homework and add recess (unstructured playtime back into everyday school life of our children.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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I believe some homework is beneficial, but the kids today have way too many expectations and too many demands on their time. They are not allowed to just be kids anymore!
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
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Tricia, maybe, but not in kindergarten. There should be NO homework in kindergarten. The risk is too great, the benefits too little. The risk is simply not merited.
The teacher’s main reason is not to inspire and create a lifelong learner, but to get ready for first grade. This endless obsession of treating school as merely a stepping stone to the next level is to quote the above, beyond absurd.
The teacher looked young. It may be she just doesn’t know. I hope a volley of comments will cause her to rethink her position. If she has no children, some day when she does, she’ll cringe in horror, we hope, when she looks back at her ignorance of homework and its damaging effects.
“It is a miracle creativity has survived formal education”
Albert Einstein
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
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I think homework should be limited down to a lower amount because I have spoken with many people that are well into their careers and have commented me on the amount of homework that my teachers have assigned. Increasing the amount of homework does not bring up national standards unless every student always has a personal tutor at all times of assignments.
March 10th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
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Homework causes students to turn to drugs and alcohol to try and force themselves to relax after a stressful day.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:00 am
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listen. if you try to blame your student’s drug or alcohol use on HOMEWORK, maybe you should look at the WAY you parent first. pay attention to your kid man, and spend some quality time HELPING them with their homework, not dismissing it.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:33 am
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This is fucking stupid. I am a ninth grader in high-school and just to be brief, homework is absolutely terrible. There is not one normal human being that remotely likes homework. If your an adult, don’t bother trying to respond with something like, “LOL YEZ THER ISZ R U KRAIZ-EE”. The only thing homework does is cause a load of stress and make people wish they weren’t born. Something I noticed nowadays is that adults don’t know SHIT. Adults think they know their children and how adolescents act but the truth is, THEY DON’T KNOW FUCKING SHIT. My mom barely knows anything about me after 14 years of living together which I might add is pretty sad. I find it appalling America is run by fat obese old hippos. Every politician is an old fuck, and if old people don’t know jack shit about what youth want how can they ever hope to make this country better. Now, obviously we can’t have everything we want or anything too radical but for FUCKS SAKE, why should we have to go WORK at a Inshitution of Learningnothing for the whole god forsaken day, only to come home which is our haven to do MORE WORK? MORE POINTLESS FUCKING WORK. ARHGHHGHGGTSNOGHSOIGGPIJOPERJGIE!!!!!!!!!!
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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@Anonymous (#13)
Do you assume that the grammatical errors are a result of not doing homework, cheating on homework, or actually having do English/Language Arts homework?
Homework as an educational behavior is up for discussion just because of the correct observation you have made here.
March 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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@PamelaKL
I appreciated you comments. I feel like teachers use large amounts of work as an insurance policy in case their state test scores come back with poor ratings. The principals simplistic solution would, among other questions, no doubt be “So you gave the same amount of homework as the other teachers?”
I would hate to be the teacher that would have to say “No”, thus the homework keeps going home.
Are you in a position to homeschool? That is the only thing that was left to us here in Central California. But I know that is a big step emotionally and financially for many families – though it was the calmest time of our lives so far.
March 22nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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Homework is to much of an important factor in our society and should be partly banned.
April 16th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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Homework is one of school’s most controversial aspects, and is where teachers and students can converge and have an interesting debate. In this essay I am going to express my thoughts on why homework should be banned. One of the reasons that will be talked about in this essay is about physical activity, and how it is being lessened because of this homework issue.
One of the first reasons that homework should be banned is that homework is cutting down our exercise time which is making obesity become an epidemic. As kids spend more time doing their homework, they are less able to go outside and get some exercise. Also, because of the stress that so much homework brings, kids have to find something to release their stress on, in this case that something being food. It would be much easier for us to get exercise if we didn’t have to worry about all this homework that is sometimes assigned as due the next day.
The second reason is that sometimes we get more homework than the amount we need. My sixth grade teacher would say time and again that, “I would rather give you 5 problems and have you get them all correct, than give you 50 and have you get them all wrong.” This is true because sometimes we get more homework than the amount we need, even if we already understand the concept. As past teachers have said, “Practice makes perfect,” is perfection achieved through 50 or more math problems?
Overall, homework descends a negative impact on kids. When Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, authors of, “The Case Against Homework”, were asked if doing homework really could have a negative impact on a kids’ health, they answered that because homework involves sitting down and not doing much action, it really actually has the same impact as watching television. So, “Is it just coincidence that childhood obesity, diabetes, and other health problems have steadily increased along with homework loads?” Nowadays, homework is done in order to simply complete it, which takes away from real study time that we can be taking advantage of.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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Homework makes kids hate learning. I think that children would have a much better time at school, and have much more time to do more important things at home. Homework doesn’t make you learn, its honestly usually just busy work. It supposedly makes a kid responsible, but its gone too far. There are many other things that a kid has to do that require responsibility. I think our youth would be loads happier if there were more bans on homework.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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homework is not neccessary; e.g. maths, homework is pointless, you learn it and they tell your to learn it again after school, (why learn what you already know) and the next day you still learn about the same thing and it repeats over and over again, until you start a new subject.
It wastes our time for relaxation, we spend 6-7 hours at school…isnt that enough for them…NO!
They shove more and more at us…my plan, they give us a chance to choose not to do homework, if we fail and suck at school when u graduate, you can go and research on your own or if you graduate with out doing homework(like me), try to get it banned for good….SAY NO TO HOMEWORK
May 8th, 2009 at 12:35 am
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I think homework is stupid people r wondering y kids r so unfit now ittls because kids have so much homework the don’t have time to exersize or b healthy O and annoumus F U u sound like 1 of those british nannys that say do this that way do that this way nag nag nag nag nag
May 12th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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As much as I disliked homework when I was in school, I did respect that it was to discipline me for post-high school. We are in an a fast-paced information age that it is not acceptable to make mistakes, when making mistakes are where some of the most valuable lessons are learned.
I think homework should be made optional, except for large projects which encourage group participation. If the student does the homework consistently then it might reflect on their final mark as a bonus. This would encourage students that have difficulties in the classroom environment, but can work alone better, to go for these extra marks. Because they would be wanting to do this, they would naturally become better at it.
As far as spelling goes, I think teachers should be encouraged by parents to correct all spelling mistakes. Spelling is a foundational stepping stone to any language. If children don’t understand the basics of spelling and grammar when they are young, it will be very difficult for them to understand in their later years. Up to and including grade 6, teaching spelling should be necessary and it should be corrected at all levels of education.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:49 am
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I AM A STUDENT MYSELF AND I THINK HOMEWORK SHOULD BE BANNED BECAUSE WE DO ENOUGH WORK AT SCHOOL ALSO IT WASTES MY FREE TIME WHEN I COULD BE DOING SPORT IM DOING HOMEWORK SO A BAN SHOULD BE DONE
HOMEWORK IS SHIT
May 31st, 2009 at 8:40 am
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I think homework should end for good! We do enough work at school! Home is meant to be fun, but instead your stuck doing what you’ve been doing for the whole day at school. We get given homework about stuff we haven’t even covered in school- so how do you know what to do?!
June 8th, 2009 at 11:49 am
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i think homework should be banned because i don’t like it and i come home from school and do my homework like what i am doing right now because i am doing a HOMEWORK SHOULD BE BANNED assignment : (
July 27th, 2009 at 4:10 am
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i think that no schools should have homework
October 14th, 2009 at 8:23 am
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home work suck ass you just try your best and you just forget about it then when you miss one homework every one just gets so paranoid and even when you re did the home work ur stil introble I JUST F********* HATE HOMEWORK IT GIVES YOU STRESS AND MAKES ME SO ANGRY LIKE TODAY I HAVE SOO MUCH HOMEWORK ITS LIKE SCHOOL AT HOME YOU DONT HAVE NO FREE TO JUST RELAX I HATE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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chanse, Where you come from homework might improve people, but where I come from it pisses them off so much they deliberatly dont pay attention out of spite. I personally have done it quite a few times, but before I would have rarely considered it. If I had 50p for every time I have had to get up at 4 in the morning just to avoid after school detention I would be a fucking milionare. I come to school SHATTERED every morning because of that stuff. So Fuck off with your statements and listen to someone that actually KNOWS what they’re talking about. AND DONT YOU FUCKING DARE CALL ME LAZY!!!!!!
P.s Nicely said Bryan (45), nicely said.
October 18th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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Homework should be banned, but this useless site involving self-absorbed losers with too much time on their hands. Obviously you people don’t have enough homework if you can go searching for sites like this. Honestly, I would hope that if homework was banned, maybe society would find a better use for the youth’s time, something that doesn’t involve writing useless comments on a site meant for 40 year old virgins in search of a stiffy.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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Shut up lamb chop! Nobody wants your opinion!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 am
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I LOVE YOU LAMB CHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
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You are both immature.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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Homework makes it hard for my child to eat food and go to the bathroom right. NO!!!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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hey any adult does not know what kids are going through because homework has trippled since 1981 which is terrible. Most of our parents make us get a job so we dont have alot of time anyways.
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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It’s not fair that I must do work I’ve already learned, it doesn’t make ME want to go and challenge myself, instead its like saying, “heres some work, complete it, or you’ll be punished” that doesnt make me want to complete it! If teachers didn’t assign homework to help prepare for tests, they would see how many kids study at their own will, how many CARE about their grade!
December 11th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
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Plus it wastes ink, kills trees, and demolishes brain cells, so if you don’t wanna die, STOP COMPLETING HOMEWORK!!!
December 11th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
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Anonymous has poor sentence structure and no guts. Get a name! I learned to write English, my third language, at school… Our kids are getting too much! More at school, less at home would make more sense. The burden of extra learning is put in the parents’ shoulders…
January 21st, 2010 at 5:05 pm
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we have so much homework everynight no time for fun, no time for family, and no time for yourself. homework should be illegal. their are so many corrupt familys and i think part of the reasons could be because of homework. parents having to get kids to sit down and finish their homework, no one is spending time together. homework needs to be banned forever
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
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i got 12 pieces of homework in 2 days once.
January 24th, 2010 at 9:55 am
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The East Jr. High needs to stop having homework because we have several classes and we be tired after all that had work of eight hours so i think we should stop having homework for a litttle while until next year
January 28th, 2010 at 10:54 am
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homework is a waist of kids time
January 28th, 2010 at 11:24 am
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well done thirteen and fifteen! I mean, it’s all well and good hating homework, but it looks like most of you have just shot yourselves in the foot with all of your retarded spelling and grammar mistakes.
Learn how to write English, dumbasses.
February 4th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
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homework is a “waist” of time,
I laugh at your futility!
February 4th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
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my child’s homework problems are giving me eating disorders, ican’t sleep, go to the bathroom, i can’t go outside, icant show any emotions, the list goes on….
you honestly thought i was serious, didnt you?
who really cares any wayz, just get it done, stop friggin whining, and stop going on these stupid sites instead of doing your homework.
im not really a parent, it would be wierd if i was though seeing as im only 14 years old, however, reading some of these comments does make me think…..
look, my point is do your homework and then if you really are sad enough go on nerdy blogging site afterwards..
it’s my favourite past time ;) (jokes)
February 4th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
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I have the day off on friday and monday becuase of a half term, during this time I have to do an ESSAY ON SPAKESPEARE. IT IS NOT A HOLIDAY IF THERE’S HOMEWORK.
February 10th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
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When I do home work I don’t learn I just use google so there is no point.
February 21st, 2010 at 6:05 pm
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OMFG, I hate homework sooo much. It is so undescribable, how much I hate it. If I had to pick something that I hated the absolute most in the world, it’d be homework, no doubt! And it’s just been getting worse and worse over the years. School used to be somewhat bearable and fun, but now it seems as though I just wake up and drone myself to school only to deal with classes and get an hour or two of homework from each. Math is the worst. I work as hard as I can, all my lunchtimes (which are inappropriately short), to finish as much homework as I can. And I have Math at the end of the day, and before you know it, I then have 30 extra-long questions to go and completely ruin my weekend. And trying to get them all done just ruins any chance at having a respectable weekend for me. Weeknights suck because I get so worked up over the amount of homework I have! Homework drains me emotionally to the point where I snap at the people I love, and feel like crying it’s so goddamn terrible. I get so much homework in a day, it’s not even funny. I could deal with a few simple questions, maybe five, but not 30 math questions, 2 stupid worksheets for Foods, a 7 page booklet on Charles II, reading 6 short stories and then summarizing them, and reviewing a basketball worksheet for gym. Homework has made me completely and utterly hate school and dread having to go everyday. It’s come to the point where I might drop out (though I don’t even think I have the nerves to do that). All I know is that if the amount of homework keeps climbing and this crap keeps going on in the future years, there isn’t a chance in hell my children are going to public school. Also, elementary school. They used to be good for homework. You wouldn’t get any and if so, a little. Now, it’s terrible. My little brothers, both 8, get more homework than I got in grade 10. Currently, they’ve been assigned a project in French to make a life sized paper cut out of a human body, proceed to label it French and English, and the write a one hundred word blurb on each little bone and organ in both French and English, and then write a speech in French and English to then present it in front of their class for 10 minutes, all under a week and a half, and they only get 20 minutes of class time each day to work on it, the rest having to be done at home, without parent, teacher, sibling, or electronic (translation) help. It’s got to be completely colored and everything’s got to be up to the nitpick of a teacher’s standard, which is terribly high. And they’re eight! They just want to play! And it’s 70% of their final grade! So if they fail this, they’ll be forced to do a week or two of summer school. The My brothers have been exhausted each night, and my one brother actually broke out in tears he was so done with it! For the first four days, they did well. Good kids. The day consisted of them getting up at six in the morning, going to school for 6-7 hours, then coming home at 4:00 only to have to go directly to their project, working from 4:10 to 9 or 10, even 11 or 12 at times, at night. Eventually, on the third day, I decided that they shouldn’t have to put up with this. I decided that they should just worry about actually getting some sleep. Seriously, they were getting on 2-3 hours of sleep because they were so worked up that they couldn’t actually fall asleep. My parents were done with it too. All my brothers would do was cry they were so done with it, and they aren’t usually whiny kids, either. I ended up doing the rest of the project for them, only to have their god-awful teacher call my parents in saying that she believed that they cheated. After a nice long talk with my parents, she decided to ultimately omit they from the project, and decided they’d have to do a whole bunch full of extra credit just to pass. I had the same teacher for Grade 3, and she’s absolutely appauling with her unruly expectations of these poor eight year olds. These kids are all so worn out and then she likes to give them all this homework. For the rest of those days, they proceeded to get the regular 15 question a day math homework, 30 socials questions, 10 science, and a whole whack more that I can’t even list off. They were so stressed out by it, that I ultimately told them to leave it to me because they didn’t deserve it. Then, my 3 little sisters thought that I’d do all their homework for them, because they too got a reasonable amount. I just wanted my little sisters and brothers to have fun, so I ended up easily quadrupling my homework amount by doing theirs for them because it’s just not fair for them to have that sickly insane result. All I know is that homework should be ban completely and I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATTTTEEEEE it!!!!
March 1st, 2010 at 9:48 pm
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homework sucks i hate it:(
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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I agree with what shanteia says!! Haha!!:)
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
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thank u bryanna lol ha ha i hate this class;)
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:19 pm
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Me too Writing 500 words is hard!!
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:21 pm
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u got that right idk if iam doin it.the topics ar gay lol y ar we havin to write so many papers it sucks????????:(
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:25 pm
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Ithink she just is torcherin us she jealous she cant be us hehe;)
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:27 pm
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yep of u cuz ur so pretty not of me lol
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:10 pm
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No I am the ugly one UR R GORGEOUS
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
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ha ha ha ha ha i h8 when he does that!!!!!!!!!!
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
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nope u ar. man brysen gets on my bad side sometimes should i dump him lol
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
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HE is just trying to grab stuff I would get annoyed too hehehehe ;)
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
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~ha ha ha ha ha* i h8 it and he’s not goin to grab anything he he he:)*he wishes he he he*~iam so so so so tried i wana go home i didnt go to sleep but 4 like 45 mins:(
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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HAHA I would want to sleep for the rest of the day not no 45 min.
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
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yes fhuck u hw
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:27 pm
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i mean, i dont get it- y dont the teachers go fhuck themselves? it perfectly simple
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:36 pm
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they need to get a life or at least make theirs useful. maybe they can get a job fhucking papers with math problems on them
or, better yet THEY CAN DO ALL THE FHUCKING HOMWEORK THEY ASSIGN US
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:37 pm
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OOH maybe they can fhuck eachother and have some fhucking little children spluttering out math problems at every hour. imma 10th grader and im sick of this fhucking homerk
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
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homework should be banned it sucks i think that the reason that most teens droop out of school is becouse of family problems and home work homework is bad.
“HOMEWORK IS A STUPID THING BAN IT!!!!!!!!”
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:59 pm
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homework is so boring and is a waste of time becuz kids aleready do enough work at school and homework should be banned forever or at least teachers should give less homework
March 5th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
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I THINK HOMEWORK SHOULD BE BANNED FOREVER CUZ ITS A WASTE OF TIME AND MOST OF DA KIDS COPY FROM OTHER KIDS AND DO NOT LEARN ANYTHING FROM DA HOMEWORK THAT THEY GET EVERY NIGHT SO ALL DA SCHOOLS SHOULD BAN HOMRWORK FOREVER ALSO BECUZ IT IS SO BORING AND U ALREADY DO ENOUGH WORK AT SCHOOL SO WHY DO MORE WORK AT HOME IF U R ALREADY 6 HOURS AT SCHOOL DOING WORK DA WHOLE DAY
March 5th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
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I know! I have about 3 hours per night on a school night and about5 hours per day on the weekend, and I’m only in 7th grade!
March 7th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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Next year they are making school longer for us – insted of 7hrs per day, we’ll have 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uv gotta b kidin me!
March 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
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There are so many good, valid points I could make on why homework is terrible and why it should be banned, but unfortunately, I have to go do my homework…maybe I’ll get lucky and have 5 hours of sleep tonight instead of 4…AP classes suck.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
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homework there is no point it suck and i got better things to be doing at home than study. i think that you should do revision the last year before gcse because they are important but any befor that is pointlass
March 11th, 2010 at 4:17 am
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ARGH I HATE SITTING HERE FOR 5 HOURS AND LEARNING NOTHING THAT I WANT TO… WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT EARLY CHINA.
March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
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here i am wasting the last day of my weekend writing nuclear power essays and writing about stupid novels. these days it seems that all of my spare time is wasted doing homework. SERIOUSLY HOMEWORK FUCK OFF I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 13th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
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might as well just add 30 minutes on to school instead of making the kids do school work at home
March 15th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
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Homework stresses me to death; school should be for learning while home should be for mental rejuvenation.
if adults work 8 to 9 hours a day and dont usually bring home work from their job why cant we have the same amount of time to help us cope with the stresses of modern society pressing in on us while we are in our growth stages of our life. Instead of mentaly exhausting us let us be prepared with the mental strength and stability for school the next day.honestly is really that hard to adjust courses to fit an 8 hour day to teach students material in a balanced stress relieving format?
March 29th, 2010 at 10:09 am
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That’s what we parents are asking for “stressed out student”. We don’t think you should work 12 hour days either.
March 29th, 2010 at 11:19 am
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I hate my classmates, but I hate homework more! Everyday it’s the same thing! “Homework due today”, “Homework due tomorrow”. Heck it’s even: “Homework over the Summer Holidays!”. It’s driving me crazy, I wish my school in Thailand would Ban homework because it’s giving me a headache!!!
Teachers hardly do anything for us and yet their torturing us everyday with the worst word in the dictionary: HOMEWORK. I’ll do anything to not go to school, heck I’d do anything for homework to be Banned! I can’t take it anymore!!! I mean, I have more important things then this then to be sitting in front of textbooks and finding about Henry the Eight or Finding stupid pictures on the Internet for Art Class!, if it continues I think I might drop out from school!!! And I mean !!!!
March 30th, 2010 at 8:46 am
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thanks phsych mom for support :),i appreciate any positive comments i can get from anyone.
my sister is in 3rd grade and she is the brightest little girl ive ever seen, i know she has a great future,the issue comes in with homework, my sister averages about 2 to 3 hours of homework a night, my mom helps her all 3 hours until my sister is in tears from the stress.
lets examine this unfair situation
my mom taking time out of her busy life to help my sister
my sister only a third grader having 3 hours of homework a night
(my sister hates reading now ,go figure)
all because material cant be taught in an eight our day
March 30th, 2010 at 10:14 am
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id like to talk a little about me about me now
I am a Freshman in highschool
i got straight A’s till sixth grade when i began to develope deep stomach pain and an unkown anxiety.I began to hate school to death. their was days i was so anxious that i would have to call my parents to pick me up the minute i got to school.i finally homeschooled but to no avail i started getting behind in my homework on my online homeschooling,my stress level was so high i would punch my self at night and cry my eyes out
till i fell asleep my parents brought me to a doctor and i was diagnosed with O.C.D(obsessive compulsive disorder)
my mind was completely scrambeled with fears that the normal person would find completly unnescessary,NOW YOU MAY WONDER WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HOMEWORK PLEASE KEEP READING.
i finally straitened things out with the help of a phsychyotrist and proceded in to my freshmen year of highschool,things are still not the same as before ,bnut i manage,but homework is immense but after school with my disorder is worse .i need my time to rejuvenate from a day worth of bullies and work .i just cant do homework or i swear ill go insane i need 3 studie halls a day just to get homework done so now i am missing out on full educational potential .i need time especially after school to recharge so to speak my mind so i dont go crazy i am on so much medication i cant even tell you .the point of this story is “AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY THEIR IS SCHOOL SHOOTINGS”NOW DONT WORRY ABOUT ME I AM COMPLETELY SANE AND WOULD NEVER THINK OF DOING SUCH AN AWFUL THING ,I AM JUST MAKEING A POINT ABOUT MY VIEW OF STRESSED OUT STUDENTS AND THE LINK WITH HOMEWORK.
i am trying to get good grades and am doinfg ok but stress and homework are hand in hand
March 30th, 2010 at 10:35 am
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please no one misquote me
March 30th, 2010 at 10:35 am
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homework should be banned it is a national revolutoin
April 12th, 2010 at 7:59 am
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When I got into middle school, I learned how hard homework was. I was spending ALL my time on homework I had to wake up at 5:30 im the morning just to finish it. I feel like a wreck every day, because I can’t get enough sleep on the weekends. My life is becoming a wreck. I am nervous all the time and I feel sick alot. I can’t say the last time I have had a friend over on the weekends because I have been trying to sleep. Homework is unneccarssary. I am sorry for the mispelling, but I am tired. Hopefully over vacation I can relax and see a friend or two.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
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Homework is gay. I am in all honors classes and I don’t do any homework at home. If I do not finish homework at school I just don’t do it. So now I’m getting pretty much straight c’s. When earlier in life I got straight a’s, but that was when we got about 10 minutes of homework each day. Now though, I am getting about 3 projects a week. My dad starting yelling at me about not turning homework in last year, and im starting to get really stressed about not getting good grades and my dad yelling at me. I wish that teachers had to do all the homework they gave to us, and see how stressed they would be. Homework has taken much away from my life, and I’m done with it. Also when will I use geomotry in my life. Oh nevermind I use it for algebra 2 then algebra 2 for trig then trig for calc, but will I use calc for????? Homework is bs. I get A’s on all my tests, but I get bad grades because homework. If I’m showing I know what I’m doing on a test, then why do I have to do homework? And all you people that are saying we are using bad grammar and spelling stfu it’s the Internet not a fucking formal letter
April 15th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
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im doing a speech about should kids get homework and my answer is NO but only grade 8 and under
April 19th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
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Homework is so much fun! I enjoy coming home after 7 hours of school, laying down my bookbag, and taking all my books out only to do another 7 hours of school! Then, when I’m all done, I go to bed and dream about school for 10 hours! It’s amazing!
April 26th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
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Homework are fucking sucky. It fuck fuck fuck and suck suck suck.
April 28th, 2010 at 11:49 am
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i say yes,becaues i need my own time for friends & family!
April 30th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
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I used to love going to primary school because we got to learn and everything but then we actually got a break now I go to high school and I bloody hate it cos ur whole day is spent on schoolwork from when you arrive to when u go to bed and I don’t get enough sleep cos I’m stressing about homework and I had to quit some of the sports I was doing because I didn’t have time to do them and my homework and then ppl wonder why so many kids are obese!!! I think that banning homework is a great idea cos even when schools put a time limit on how much u do they get all angry if u don’t get it. Done so u have to spend hours anyway so the time limit’s just a joke!!! Please please please ban homework it would make school and life soooooo much more fun
May 1st, 2010 at 8:56 pm
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Arghhhh who cares about bloody ancient Palestine and Jesus I’m not even freaking religious home work is making me hate school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2010 at 9:03 pm
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i hate doing homework but you can’t just ban it. i don’t really do the homework just study a bit when i need to. i cant be fucked most times but banning homework’s just stupid
May 15th, 2010 at 6:22 am
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I HAT HOMEWORK!
May 16th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
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I have taken a survey from some of my classmates in my homeroom and the data shows that we spend 11 hours and 30 minutes doing work related things and 2-3 hours doing things not related to work. This does not include studying for tests. We have at least 1 assessment/test/quiz ect. weekly. I have 1/6 of my spanish final on monday and my Math final (which my teacher grades EXTREMELY harsh on) on the same day. We only have 3 days now to study for these huge tests.(we were only notified about the math final today, thursday) Most people in my school agree that we all wouldn’t mind school if there was no homework. It also puts a lot of stress on me. I have been sick since January. It’s June and I haven’t fully recovered yet because of the absurd amount of homework.
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:07 pm
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Homework is the downfall of many of my classes. Especially when that class is teached by a bitch who doesn’t help you and instead gives you attitude for no reason, out of the whole class. It kills my grades.
June 13th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
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I hate homework, it is killing me, hurting my head.
ugh tests are borings to.
July 18th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
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homework should be banned
July 19th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
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homework causes great ammounts of stress to students. it also deminishes our social lives… How are we suposed to be sofisticated members of society and getting jobs if we get all this homework i’m thinking of making a potition who would join it?
July 29th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
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Fuck Homework
September 1st, 2010 at 1:00 am
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