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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although i find homework can be stressful, i think that it also has its benefits. i am a middle school student myself and i beleive that homework is essencial because ussually u dont learn somethng the first tme it has been tought so u need to exercise it over a few times and it’s hard to fit everything we need to know in 6 and a half hours a day.
September 25th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
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homework sucks assssss
October 6th, 2010 at 11:26 am
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homework is bullshit
October 25th, 2010 at 10:03 am
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homework can go to HELL!!!
October 25th, 2010 at 10:09 am
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Right now I don’t even care HOW beneficial homework may or may not be to students, because anything that makes them- and me at this moment- this freaking miserable should not be allowed. And no, it’s not because it’s lazy, its because WE’D LIKE TO ACTUALLY LEAVE SCHOOL ONCE IN A WHILE. I’d even be willing to have a longer day, even have shorter summer break, if we had no or very little homework!! Depression is an epidemic in this country and homework is causing it. Just go read Its Kind of a Funny Story. It’s fictional but it’s accurate.
October 25th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
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The bottom line is that I would be so much more okay with school if there was no homework. Homework is the #1 thing I don’t like about school, and I would be willing to spend more time there if homework wasn’t making the time I had outside of it so tainted!
October 25th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
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Hi i am 13 years old and i know people really dont care what i think but i have actually thought very hard about killing myself because of this i cry at night but dont let anyone know i have tried to kill myself more times than one but it hasnt worked. Tommorow we have 2 projects due on the same day when are we supposed to do them because we have homework always in 5 of the 7 classes everyday and then tests and quizzes to study for and reading logs i cant sleep so i cant concentrate and whenever i think about school i start to regret being born, what do i do?
October 26th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
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Dear Ashley–
What do you do? Please talk to your parents or another caring adult about your feelings. Or please take a look at the suicide hotline website, suicidehotlines.com, and call the number for your state. You shouldn’t have to feel so alone. Or write to me privately and I’ll see if I can help you figure out some other ways of getting help. My email is sara@stophomework.com.
–Sara
October 26th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
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Ashley, please, don’t hurt yourself. Ask someone for help. There are many people who post to this site who care about you, though we’ve never met you. Try to find someone you can talk to, and if you can, post back and let us know how you’re doing.
And you should know that there are many people who are very concerned about the stress that our kids are experiencing and we are working to change the situation.
Please take care of yourself. Your mental health is more important than school, more important than grades, more important than what college you might go to or how much money you might make. Depression is a terrible illness.
I will be thinking of you. Don’t feel alone.
October 26th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
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To Ashley:
Lots of people on this site care about what you think…and writing about what you think can sometimes be really helpful when we don’t know how to solve a situation. Let us know how today went..we want to know.
October 27th, 2010 at 7:55 am
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I am divided three ways on this:
As a former student, I don’t particularly like homework. I did, however accept it as a reality, and I did it – or I didn’t do it and just braved the consequences. I did not, however, rebel against it.
As a teacher, I see the need for skills to be practiced outside of class – to give the student a chance to do this on their own. To that end I will say that homework is inevitable, and banning ALL of it is unlikely, and even undesirable. However, I agree that there is a problem with excessive homework, given out by teachers for various reasons: Some subjects are just difficult and require a lot of work. But then some teachers have a need to be known as a hard teacher (which people often mistakenly equate with being a good teacher) or, as others have said, they simply want to cover their asses in case admin check in on them.
My own philosophy is “work smarter. not harder” – and I do assign homework myself. It isn’t daily, though, and basically I treat it for what it is – practice. I correct it for errors, but homework is not weighted heavily in the grade. The majority of the grade is based on formal assessments. Does this mean that some students won’t do it? Sure, but then some students don’t need as much practice. In the end, it isn’t a matter of how much ‘work’ they’ve done, it’s a matter of what they know, and what they can do.
Lastly, as a parent of a toddler, I fear what my son is going to experience when he gets to middle school and high school. He will be expected to do far more than I ever was – and I’m not sure he will be the better for it. Yes, I want him to put in a good effort, and yes I want him to fare well academically. I do not want him to sacrifice the benefits of youth for the sake of performance paranoia. Understand that he will do homework, and I plan on being there to monitor that and even help him when necessary – but we will also need family time, and he will need time for himself, his interests and his friends – because the last thing I want is a high-performing robot with a messed-up sense of self because he didn’t get a childhood.
October 29th, 2010 at 11:47 am
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To CA Teacher:
Fifty years ago, kids were still subjected to corporal punishment in school. It was an accepted method of handling child behaviour. But it changed. Why did it change? I’m sure that there were teachers back in 1955, who were quite sure that whacking a kid would be an acceptable practice for as long as she was a teacher. But it changed.
That’s why I cannot accept what you said….
As a teacher, I see the need for skills to be practiced
outside of class – to give the student a chance to do
this on their own. To that end I will say that
homework is inevitable, and banning ALL of it is
unlikely, and even undesirable.
There are lots of educators, and parents and millions of students who are saying homework is a useless waste of time. It damages family relationships, it deprives children of sleep, play and free time and has no bearing on how they do in school tomorrow, let alone 5 years down the road. It’s as damaging (see post above) as the strap was in some cases…
It will change…and I hope it does for your toddler.
October 29th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
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Here in Brazil,daily we get about 72 exercises to do from all subjects,now some of them(Phisics and math),take about 2 hours to do 24 exercises and they must be done with the internet on,because they are so hard to do,you would have to take even more classes if ou didn’t use the internet.
I don’t hate homework,i just hate the fact you are given too much that in the end will flood your head and you won’t learn a thing and get stressed.
October 30th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
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ROFL LOL
November 1st, 2010 at 1:47 am
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There’s a difference between homework and studying, and I’m on board with banning rote homework. I don’t know if it’s the beginning of it, but we sure as hell need a REVOLUTION! We need to dump this antiquated system and rebuild from the ground up, realizing that it will always be in flux as our society, culture, and technology is, and that the system needs to adjust to it accordingly. There is one thing that seems to remain the same though: human development. Yet developmental appropriateness seems to be the last thing to be considered in all of what I’ve seen in my four kids’ public education!
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:34 am
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I am in 8th grade, and my school *forces* us to play sports (never played any sports before, I suck and had to buy gear/etc) at the end of the day for an hour and a half, then they send us home with 3-4 hours worth of homework. Anyone agree that it’s just too much?
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:53 pm
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HOMEWORK SUCKS
November 3rd, 2010 at 4:39 pm
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HOMEWROK IS STUPID!
November 3rd, 2010 at 4:40 pm
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I’m fine with homework. It’s extra practice at home to give teachers more time to teach at school and to reinforce lessons. But if you’re going to assign homework, then at least make it relevant! For goodness’s sake, teachers, please don’t assign more than 20 min. of the same stuff– especially when students have 5+ periods a day. I appreciate the concern teachers have for students, but pulling all-nighters while I’m already half asleep do not help. And if you assign something, then please, please check it. I BS my homework a lot. It makes me lazy.
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:12 pm
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yes it shud be abolished
November 4th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
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hmwk is poo
November 4th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
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f….k hmwk
November 4th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
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Honestly, I hate some homework assignments with a passion and I enjoy doing some homework assignments that interest me, its all about if what interests me as a person, ive had huge homework assignments before which did not seem interesting or fun for me to do so i shut down and did the bare minimum and accepted the mediocre grade i received, i know i could have done better but i just didnt like the subject of the assignment and so i rebelled and did as little as possible just to get it done, while other subjects interest me soo much i actually go out of my way to learn more about it, like how i love to watch The Universe on the history channel and read books and articles on this, even though i didnt have to because it wasnt assigned to me from my school.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
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homework should be banned because after a long and tiring day at school you need some time by ur self, and around half of ur week is doing school work so ur always tired at school and then being yelled at for being tired, so me personaly think homework should be banned
November 16th, 2010 at 2:43 am
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For all you people who say that homework is killing you, why don’t you just say “I am tired of doing so much homework, and I can not get sleep!” to your teacher, if that fails and your teacher is mean say “you know what? I hate you AND homework!” and walk home if they just say like “I don’t care…” or something. If you have mean parents, then tell your parents you are under A LOT of stress. Maybe then we can help each other! :)
November 17th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
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Homework is soo stressfull it makes you want to give up on school. Im already giving up i dont even do homework anymore just copy of friends it makes me want to be a dropout
November 18th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
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Homework is soo stressfull it makes you want to give up on school. Im already giving up i dont even do homework anymore just copy of friends it makes me want to be a dropout.
November 18th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
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I was doing 7 pages of homework a day for the past 3 days. 21 pages! I was working for over 3 hours a day.
December 6th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
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I did 13 hours of homework in one day!BS
December 6th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
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PLZ tell me how much homework you do in a day! For debate!
December 6th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
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25 hrs in 1 week
December 6th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
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Dude, tnks bt dnt uze my nme
December 6th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
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The person who said more homework is needed because we spelled stuff wrong makes me****
December 6th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
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BAN HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! llama
December 9th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
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Ya know Homework Is such a fucking ripoff I had to be in jepordy trying to get a fucking hell awser on the fucking simester!
December 14th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
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And It ripoffed all the time in the books fucking family with its like bringing all the fuck to home and that sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Infact I am starting to make a new link on my website FUCK YOU HOMEWORK! And I voued that whenever I get out this grade I’lll
hurt whoever invented homework its terable!
December 14th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
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Homework should not be banned, but lessend! I have at least 3 hours of homework a night! 30 minutes to an hour a night would be nice!!!
January 9th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
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In my personal opinion homework is useless and couldn’t help people at all. it only stresses the living life out of students and make them pissed off all the time. and every year they are adding more pages to the books that already have a thousand pages which isn’t helping us at all home work is not helping anyone and should be banned before all students get depressed.
January 31st, 2011 at 5:38 pm
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You only live once.
Life is shorter than you think.
So get educated but also have fun in your life.
Bottom line School is for learning and home is for fun.
Homework is a waste of our lives.
BAN IT !!!… FULL STOP.
February 7th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
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The world is made up of two types of people.
Those who love homework and those who hate it.
Could those who love it stop telling us how good it is.
Better still could they shove it up their own arses.
Thanks
February 7th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
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Personally, I despise homework. I have netball and basketball everyday of the week, except one. On that day that I have to do my homework, it takes me about four hours to complete! (I’m seriously not exaggerating) Our school says 30 minutes a night is enough to finish our homework. But at the standard they require? No way.
I don’t mind a little bit of homework, but the teachers give WAY too much. Is it an actual law or something for the teachers to give us homework? If I ever became a teacher, I’d never give my students homework. There’s way to much pressure for everything anyways…
February 17th, 2011 at 2:50 am
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i hate homeworks nd i wnt dis f ucking sucking irritating and mind eating thing to just go to hell…!! y r they made..to make poor children dead while dey r alive..!! oh gwd!!
February 20th, 2011 at 7:15 am
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If homework really is a necessity I think schools need some kind of stricter rubric as for the actual content, competencies and demands for each homework so they are actually a productive work. (i.e. when you have to answer questions and answers from a book, don’t you think it’s a waste of time and energy to have to copy all the questions on looseleaf, rather than just your answers? I’ve wasted many, many hours of my life just copying by hand…) People complain about homework because, guess what geniuses, IT REALLY DOES WASTE YOUR TIME. There are so many homeworks that I feel like they were a total freaking waste of time, and I didn’t learn anything from them (or anything useful).
Teachers should know well enough to give GOOD homeworks, not just ANY homework because they’re supposed to give it.
February 20th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
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Ha, ha, reading this makes me realize all of the grammar mistakes I did, especially after all the people who complained about grammar errors in previous posts. But… honestly? Giving me more homework isn’t going to improve my writing as much as simply proofreading what I wrote before posting. Give me a break.
February 20th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
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Homework is fucking shit and is uncool!!! :( I just wish someone would stop homework foreverrr!!, cuzmy homework is so hard that i will die to stoppp!!! and of COURSE CHOPS AWAY MY TIME FROM THE COMPUTER AND PLAYSTATION SO BOO!!! HOMEWORK YOU STINK 20 RATE!!!!!!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
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HELLO WE HAVE SCHOOL WORK WHY DO WE HAVE TO DO ALL THIS STUPID JUNK AT HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE HAD IT WITH HOMEWORK AND IF I FIND OUT WHO MADE HOMEWORK AND THINKS ITS A GOOD IDEA WELL BOO-HOO!!!!!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
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April 11th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
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BAN HOMEWORK IT’S KILLING EVERYONE PLZ BAN HOMEWORK!!!! STUPID FKING HOMEWORK!!!!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
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NEVER AGREE TO ANYONES COMMENT THAT THINKS HOMEWORK IS A GOOD THING CUZ ITS NOT!!!!!
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April 11th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
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Homework is damaging the education school system and relationships between families because it’s not only long but crazy and HARD!!!!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
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I WILL DESTROY HOMEWORK!!!!!!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
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Thanks to homework it made my mom strict and made my sister angry and made my life crap!!! Whoever thinks homework is good for you because it will help ou learn BOO-HOO BURN TO HELL!!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
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I know who invented homework Henry Hemlich
April 11th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
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Everyone it’s not Henry Hemlich’s Fault don’t blame the innocent man who invented homework blame your teachers!!!!!!!!!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
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90% of it is busywork. Pure busywork. I learn more at home surfing the internet than I learn from homework, possibly even along with school. They say it reinforces learning, but it doesn’t. All we want to do is get our homework done so we can savor the precious 20 minutes. of free time we have. After that, we forget about all the things that we learn. And as soon as I get to school, happy homework is temporarily over, the teacher says “Alright, tomorrow we are having a test. Study hard.” No warnings or anythings. I’m exaggerating a little bit, but I’m trying to prove my point. So on top of our regular homework we have to make flash cards and study until 3 AM. Then, up at 6 to cram as much studying in before leaving for school behind heavy eyelids. Arrive, and fail the test because your brain isn’t working because of lack of sleep and REAL mental stimulation. People say that homework is mental stimulation, but it isn’t. Mental stimulation is things we choose to learn. All homework teaches us is that adults don’t care. There are a few that do (bless them), and are on our side in the debate against homework. Adults mean well. They want to watch us go off to good colleges, and want to see that neat line of A’s on our report cards. There is something satisfying about that to them, seeing that they have raised their children to be intelligent and hard working. In one respect, they have. But they never ask what we think about it, because they assume we feel the same satisfaction to know that our hard work on homework pays off. In a way, it is satisfying. But only for a few moments. Then we are thrown into the next quarter, where the pressure cooker turns right back on, perhaps hotter than ever. Suddenly that line of A’s and B’s means nothing. They’re just simple letters on a piece of paper meant to represent our intelligence, printed in ink and written formulaically Which is what they are. We won’t remember that report card in a few years. We’ll only remember the homework and tears, the way we stayed up all night doing a report on a famous composer we don’t even know the name of now. I’m writing this to all the adults that come across this website. Is this how you want us to remember our youth and childhood?
April 30th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
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Homework isn’ t that bad. Those who say it is may need to find some balance in their life. Others may just have a bad teacher. I believe that homework should never be more than an hour, and honestly some kids probably spend more time watching pointless TV than that so it shouldn’t be interfering too much. And for those who say homework sucks, I have sympathy.
May 18th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
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You people with gammar and spelling errors only have half a brain, but don’t worry, teachers will teach you 1+1=2 in high school
June 5th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
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All you swearing people only have half a brain, too.
June 5th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
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it took a long time to ban corporal punishment in schools.
it took a long time to ban forcing left handed kids to write with their right hand in schools.
it took a long time to ban 1/2 day school on Saturday.
It may still take some time to ban homework because the same unenlightened mindset of the pro corporal punishment and no lefthanders teachers and parents are still around.
forcing kids to WORK at home while us adults relax is nothing short of modern child slavery.
a visonary leader is required to stop this child abuse.
ordinary people just dont get it.
child centric?
June 14th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
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To be Honest what is the point of giving us homework when we already have school seriously homework is shit the only reason I go to school is because of p.e. because we don’t get any homework.
June 16th, 2011 at 11:10 am
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I thought people pay good money for TEACHers to teach us, not for them to waste money on paper and force kids to learn at home.
So many teachers say that we need to get outside more, but how can we when we have to stay inside getting a sore gluteus maximus doing homework!
July 25th, 2011 at 5:12 am
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I absolutely hate Homework, most high school students have a job, so they find it hard to fit in homework, sport/recreational activities, sleep & a small amount of free time. School takes over our lives. They decide what we wear.
Put an end to homework now.
July 25th, 2011 at 5:19 am
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Since when to people “pay good money” for teachers to teach? Last I checked, public education was FREE (notwithstanding the minimal tax dollars that are collected, which definitely do not cover a teacher’s salary). On average, teachers get paid anywhere between 32,000-40,000/year, which if you divide it up between the number of hours per day they spend in the classroom only (and NOT including their own prep work time) and number of students per class, equals out to be about $3/hour.
I am seeing LAZY written all over this last post. I played football, basketball, and baseball, worked 15 hours per week in high school, was an honor roll student and always did my homework and had plenty of free time for whatever I wanted to do on the weekends.
Whoever told you all that life is fun and games and relaxation must live in some backwoods hippy compound. You need to WORK to have nice things in life, sometimes more than you get paid salary to do. If your laundry is piled up are you going to neglect it because “this is your time to relax”? The American society has turned into lazy complainers. Period.
No, not all homework is meaningful or enjoyable, and maybe teachers should rethink the kind of homework they are sending home. But I do many things everyday that are a hassle and things that I don’t like because its a part of LIFE.
July 26th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
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homework is a wast of our precious time i don’t give a cr@p about it it is just a pain in the @$$ we should have revolution
August 29th, 2011 at 4:20 am
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homework stinks lets burn it
August 29th, 2011 at 4:22 am
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I FREAKIN HATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HOMEWORK AND SCHOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 5th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
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I wake up in the morning, trying not to fall asleep in the shower. I drag my sorry ass to school just to do a shitload of work. Then I go home, hoping to get a break and chill out from a long tough day at school, only to find I have a pile of homework waiting for me.
I never ASKED to go to school. I never ASKED for homework, I never ASKED to learn stuff I’ll never use for the rest of my life…
So why the hell do I have to do it.
September 14th, 2011 at 7:27 pm
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.Why Homework Should Be Ended.
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# 1: Homework has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school. Some schools and some countries don’t bother with homework at all, and their results do not seem to suffer from it. Studies show that homework adds nothing to standardised test scores for primary/ elementary pupils. International comparisons of older students have found no positive relationship between the amount of homework set and average test scores. If anything, countries with more homework got worse results ! .
#2 : Homework is almost always done when a child is already tired from a long day at school. As a result few students are at their best when they sit down in the evening to yet more work. Homework ends up being done in a hurry, by students fighting fatigue, and poor quality work is produced. Worse still, students who have been up late trying to finish off their homework, then come tired into school the next day, and so are less ready to learn. Really, what is the point? .
#3: Setting homework does little to develop good study skills. It is hard to check whether the homework students produce is really their own. Some students have always copied off others or got their parents to help them. But today there is so much material available on the internet that teachers can never be sure. It would be better to have a mixture of activities in the classroom which help students to develop a whole range of skills, including independent learning.
#4: Homework produces large amount of pointless work of little educational value, but marking it ties up much of teachers’ time. This leaves teachers tired and with little time to prepare more effective, inspiring lessons. The heavy workload also puts young graduates off becoming teachers, and so reduces the talent pool from which schools can recruit.
#5: omework puts students off learning. Studies have shown that many children find doing homework very stressful, boring and tiring. Often teachers underestimate how long a task will take, or set an unrealistic deadline. Sometimes because a teacher has not explained something new well in class, the homework task is impossible. So children end up paying with their free time for the failings of their teachers. They also suffer punishments if work is done badly or late. After years of bad homework experiences, it is no wonder that many children come to dislike education and switch off, or drop out too early.
#6: Homework takes a lot of time up. Being young is not just about doing school work. It should also about being physically active, exploring the environment through play, doing creative things like music and art, and playing a part in the community. The time spent doing homework could be used to get a part time job, do chores, and participate in sports. It is also important for young people to build bonds with others, especially family and friends. These activities are all much more productive than doing homework. Merely prolonging the school day does not improve knowledge acquisition, but it does prevent the student from doing all of the other things that a young person’s life is supposed to be about.
#7: Homework is a class issue. In school everyone is equal, but at home some people have advantages because of their family background. Middle-class families with books and computers will be able to help their children much more than poorer ones can. This can mean working class children end up with worse grades and more punishments for undone or badly done homework. On the other hand pushy parents may even end up doing their kids’ homework for them – cheating. And homework is one of the most common causes of family arguments.
#8: Homework is not given because it is neccesary for learning: Rather, it is given because it is a tradition. Teachers do not assign homework because a certain lesson is important enough to continue at home, they have already decided that children have to do something at home every night, and they decide later what that something should be. This results in less productive assignments that have very little, if any, educational value. Whether or not they need it, most children come home with a backpack full of homework.
#9: Homework is given out far to much, often for no reason. Homework should only be assigned when a student does not finish their classwork, or when they must study for a test. Outside of these situations, homework is pointless work that often just puts kids off learning.
October 4th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
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That is my reason to end homework. There is only one thing in the world that I hate. I dislike justin bieber songs, I dislike wars, but I hate homework.
October 4th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
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It causes too much stress for the student! The students don’t even learn anything as most of the time homework consists of countless questions. And I believe that time outside of school is time for what the student wants to do.
October 30th, 2011 at 1:03 am
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what i have notice is that homework is no longer homework, in fact most my homework is a lesson we didn’t get done during class, Do you know how many times i didn’t get my homework done because i didn’t how to do it and the teacher says “you should have payed attention to the lesson” even though the homework was the lesson. I get homework in EVERY subject besides study hall totaling up to around 3-4 hours a night. And most of the homework is worksheet that we do the NEXT class. Also i barley have anytime to get my homework done, i have to get up at 5:30 am every day to get my stuff set up, eat breakfest, freshin up then i leave for school at 6:30 and i get there at 7:30 and im at school until 3:30 then i leave and i get home at 4:30 and i have to do chores which usually take around 45 mins and i eat dinner at 6:00 and eating dinner takes around a hour then i take a shower and that takes around 20 min and i finish at around 7:30 and i have only around 2 hours to get 4 hours of homework done. so i don’t have time. also homework counts as 50% of my grade so i have to do it but since i don’t have time, im failing 2 of my classes. and they blame me for it.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
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homework is ruining my life
December 10th, 2011 at 10:33 am
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homework is really torture for me
December 29th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
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what i have notice is that homework is no longer homework, in fact most my homework is a lesson we didn’t get done during class, Do you know how many times i didn’t get my homework done because i didn’t how to do it and the teacher says “you should have payed attention to the lesson” even though the homework was the lesson. I get homework in EVERY subject besides study hall totaling up to around 3-4 hours a night. And most of the homework is worksheet that we do the NEXT class. Also i barley have anytime to get my homework done, i have to get up at 5:30 am every day to get my stuff set up, eat breakfest, freshin up then i leave for school at 6:30 and i get there at 7:30 and im at school until 3:30 then i leave and i get home at 4:30 and i have to do chores which usually take around 45 mins and i eat dinner at 6:00 and eating dinner takes around a hour then i take a shower and that takes around 20 min and i finish at around 7:30 and i have only around 2 hours to get 4 hours of homework done. so i don’t have time. also homework counts as 50% of my grade so i have to do it but since i don’t have time, im failing 2 of my classes. and they blame me for it.
December 29th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
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I hate homework we have about 2,3 or 4 sets of homework a night usually for the next night and we don’t get much chance to just hang out with friends and have fun. Plus we are only Y7
January 25th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
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Adults have screwed up our world so bad that they load us with all the stuff they wish they had learned so we can fix this world for them
January 25th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
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