Is Homework Ban the Beginning of a National Revolution?

Posted bySara BennettPosted inIn the News, Media Clips

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.

294 thoughts on “Is Homework Ban the Beginning of a National Revolution?”

  1. 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 : (

    Like

    Reply

  3. 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Like

    Reply

  4. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  5. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  10. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  11. 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!

    Like

    Reply

  13. 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…

    Like

    Reply

  14. 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

    Like

    Reply

  16. 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

    Like

    Reply

  18. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  20. 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)

    Like

    Reply

  21. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  23. 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!!!!

    Like

    Reply

  28. 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????????:(

    Like

    Reply

  35. ~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:(

    Like

    Reply

  39. 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

    Like

    Reply

  40. 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

    Like

    Reply

  41. 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!!!!!!!!”

    Like

    Reply

  42. 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

    Like

    Reply

  43. 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

    Like

    Reply

  44. 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!

    Like

    Reply

  45. Next year they are making school longer for us – insted of 7hrs per day, we’ll have 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uv gotta b kidin me!

    Like

    Reply

  46. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  47. 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

    Like

    Reply

  48. ARGH I HATE SITTING HERE FOR 5 HOURS AND LEARNING NOTHING THAT I WANT TO… WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT EARLY CHINA.

    Like

    Reply

  49. 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!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Like

    Reply

Leave a reply to ScaredParent Cancel reply