Rosie Scribble, a freelance writer in the U.K. who specializes in mental health issues and blogs about life with her 6 year old, wrote a wonderful piece about why she doesn’t make her daughter do homework. Many of the commenters also wrote that they didn’t make their children do homework, either. Now, if they could all inspire their friends and their friends’ friends, etc., homework for young children would no longer exist (after all, most elementary school children require some kind of parental involvement to get their homework done).
I Have Banned My Child from Doing Homework
by Rosie Scribble
Sometimes I get a bit hot under the collar, stamp my foot and decide that whatever I have been told to do – I’m not doing it.
Then I wonder why my six-year-old daughter does the same.
However today, once again, I have decided there are a few things that our little family will not be doing, for one day at least.
Here’s the list:
- I.J. [my daughter] will not be doing any homework
I.J. will not be watching Newsround
I.J. will not be looking at her school reading book
I will not be discussing keywords and spellings with I.J.
I will not be testing her on her addition and multiplication
I will not be helping her to practise her alphabet
We will not be doing anything related in any way to education
We shall only be doing fun things
Why?
Because a mother knows when her child is under stress, when she has had enough and is over-tired and over-sensitive, when being asked to watch the news will only add to her current anxieties, when number work at school is getting her down to the point where she can’t sleep at night, when the pressure to practise her reading every night is getting her down, when it is all becoming too much.
A mother knows when her child needs a night off, a break from it all, and when a dose of fun takes priority over homework.
So here’s what we will do instead:
- We’ll close the curtains, turn off the lights and turn the front room into a cinema
We’ll watch a brand new DVD, possibly Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs as recommended by A Modern Mother
We’ll eat party food followed by chocolate cake
We’ll cuddle up on the sofa
We’ll shut out the rest of the world
We’ll forget about school
We’ll forget about everything else
We’ll have some fun
And I’ll hope for a calmer more relaxed child tomorrow.
Stop Homework 
I disagree on children should stop doing homework because I have an 13 year old and she loves doing homework that she has no friends she says that she enjoys homework then having friends. Also I all ways loved homework when I was little as well so I still like my work because then I still get to learn things that I have not learned when I was little. Also she is learning new things that i have not learned yet while i was in school. I all ways got straight As in school and even in college. Even though it is a little tuff but no that tough. Learning is great you can learn as much as you want in life so why should our children stop learning if we stopped learning because we are not successful in life. There is no reason not to. besides we don’t want our children end up like us in the past or the future, am I not right? We want our children to have the greatest future as well as there children does as well.
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i think it is best if children went to school then they can have friends, boyfriends or girlfriends. they can also have find how to play with others and how speak with them or learn about their feelings that they may or may not have. they need real life experience for talking to others and learning things that are new to them in the world. they can also learn by homework as well but people need to go to school so they can expand their not-ledge so they can be smart and still learn farther then anyone else. and then they can change the world to make some changes so nothing goes bad to the environment or how to stop polluting air.
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All I will say is this: I am in 9th grade now and have not had more than 1 freind at any given time in the last 3 years because of the amount of hw i am assigned. I stay up until 2am every night and skip dinner most nights because of it. I have become so skinny im disgusting and look like death. I wish I could regain my weight but I can’t. I’m 14 5 foot 6 inches and weigh around 93 pounds. I’m afraid I will die because sometimes I get super dizzy and my vision goes black but I’m still consious and I break out into a freezing cold sweat. I think the stress and my lack of weight is giving me heart problems. Also sometimes when my hw is really bad I get migraines and throw up. Hw is causing me to physically depreciate, i get a packet of 100 math word problems every night and it is graded on correctness. And that’s just in math.I just can’t wait until it’s all over and I have a job and can be healthy again. Oh yeah did I mention what I want to be when I grow up? An artist. I did not know I had to go through this to accomplish my dream.
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I think homework is wrong. I get like six hours of homework a night and i’m in seventh grade. I start right when I get home 2:45 and end up skipping dinner and going to sleep at nine. My mom always yells at me for trying to do anything other than homework. She also yells at me for no reason and we always get into arguments about homework. I generally stay up in bed till 10 trying to look at instagram and clash of clans and just have fun. Also my english teacher gave me a project over winter break. Its extremely big and me and the people in my class have no instructions or anything else to do because she just gives us a crappy paper. It says make a presentation on the book you just read (Al Capone does my Shirts) also we have to make a website power point etc. I have had multiple friends call me and ask about the project. also I have been working about 1 hour each day of winter break. If we could stop homework I would definitely be on the stop it side.
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I’m in school and sometimes having no home work is great because some teachers will tell you complete this 10 page packet tonight and turn in tomorrow me being in school still can feel the impact I understand the importance of doing the homework if the teacher tells you. Your showing your respect and responsibility but homework is stress full and can cause deep depression I have seen my friends so upset because they couldn’t finish their homework last night I’m a cheerleader and sometimes I don’t have time to do homework that to much I get home at 6:30 then eat and then do 7 packets of home work and im up till 12 am or midnight
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All of you blame the schools and the teachers, but they also have no say in the matter. The the families listen to the teachers, the teachers listen to the money, the money comes from the school, the school is funded by the state, and the state is owned by the government. If you want to yell at someone, take it straight to the feds.
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homework sucks
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I’m sorry, but I’m not sure if this is a serious post or not. I understand that homework is rather stressful, and the amount of work put on a child is only going to get more. However, I believe there are a number of reasons for that, but that’s not the point.
The point is that refusing to do something this rudimental to the learning process is the equivalent to burying your head in the sand. Homework will never go away. There are plenty of people in the world willing to do the work to try to get ahead, as showcased in the comments section, and those two refuse to do it will only fall further behind. I can’t fathom how a parent isn’t able to see this.
Now, I can understand lessening the work load a bit, or even working with you child so it’s not so stressful to them. But stress or no stress, homework is part of the growing process, and to take that away from your child is to cripple them mentally.
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Homework is too hard and school is too much for me and 7th grade is very hard with homework I saw math score said 0 on the average (for next report card) and my scores went down and the math 0 I thought I think it might be a joke but if it’s real than what happend what got me from 55 to 0? And it looks like that all the grades of all classes lowered a bit I’m good in school but homework is so hard 😦 I with there was no such thing as homework if that was true than I would have 100 or 98 on science and 95 on math and so on but homework is so hard that I hate it so much it lowers my grade so much if math would be 95 with out homework than 95 without homework 0 with homework I really hate homework
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The fuck is this? Homework for each grade. and kids have to go through so called “Schools”! More like Indoctrination camps!! They want your child to be a so called “Drone” in the Work system. Once they are out. Work begins And Taxpaying begins too! The Government uses them for money. And make them so fucking rich! The dollar is about to collapse and lets see the fucking shits of America fall. The PetroDollar will fail Because of the Expanding Oil Company’s. Like Exxon And (Forgot the name maybe) Shell? Which fuel and give the Economy money!! Which fuel their Cars to go to Work. Like what i said on sentence 3 (Work begins And Taxpaying Begins as well) You Wouldn’t see cars on the road and the Dollar would Collapse And the Global Oil Companys and Industries Would fail. And World War 3 Will start because of it! Russia and Syria along with other Oil-Producing Countries would fall to their fucking knee’s because of the Oil industries failing And the Economy of the World would be gone and dead! It will all go down Specially Observed and Monitored. They turned school’s into basically PRISONS’S PEACE!
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Im a kid in 7th grade middle school so please dont hate. But im just saying that this will NEVER teach us any responibility. As much as I LOVE this idea it would probably be a crash and burn. And concidering that my homework is about 70% of my grade, I would NEVER get into any college. Trust me, Im sitting here still doing my homework after hours, but the sense of pride I get when I know that I worked hard on something and have it turned in is worth it.
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I love how all the kids are saying that this is a bad idea and all the parents are saying its a great idea! (Anybody even think for a second how your kid is going to get into college? The homework just gets worse and worse, better to handle it now than later)
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I am a child that goes to school and today I spent all day doing homework and I got no time at all to do anything else.
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Oh, I wish I had done this with my daughter. Instead I had always pushed her to do her homework and pushed and pushed. Now she is 13, anxious, depressed, cuts herself and hates me.
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Speaking as a 16 year old who hated homework and still hates it, I will admit there is value to elementary school homework. My elementary school had strict homework rules, with none on the weekends until sixth grade. As much as it sucked and I hated my parents for sitting down with me and finishing my spelling with me, homework at such a young age has given me a pretty good work ethic that by high school, becomes habitual.
It’s interesting to see my own peers who have never done homework before struggle with what I would consider a small amount of homework. Homework has taught me responsibility, such as how to meet deadlines set by people other than my parents and has improved my focus so can set goals and physically reach them.
I think why I never became depressed or had anxiety about homework was the simple fact that my parents helped me plan my time – so now is homework time, now is eating time, now is TV time, now is reading time. I read and watched basically whatever I wanted. So although I would spend most of my childhood entertainment watching Spongebob or Disney, or playing pretend with my mom, I was never really “shut out” from the world. My parents made sure I knew about the world, that I knew about poverty, tragedy, world disasters. On trips my parents would make my brother and I meet the locals and participate in charities, teaching us from a young age how to be grateful for what we have. (I’m pretty sure I knew the basics about 9/11 at age 6 . . . that might be too early though)
Kids can’t live in a magical world and then be hit with reality when they meet their friends in middle school and have conversations with them about topics that are new to them. Parents should be the first to teach their kids about responsibility, tragedy, and have those important conversations, no matter how early in life it is.
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Hunh. I’ve read quite a few comments…HOW does a child in single digits or even middle school age have 4-5-6 + hours of homework every single day??? Are they all in advanced/gifted courses? Specialized highly advanced schools? But even still, that’s insane beyond belief to me. How can an elementary school kid even comprehend hours and hours of homework assignments every day?
For children that young, I really think they’re all being pushed by their parents, so thank God the English woman in this post has some common sense. Still…even once they get older, why take homework so seriously?!
After reading this site on and off for a long time now, I’m starting to understand that many families take homework/school extremely seriously…It might be obvious to everyone else, but I honestly had no idea. I’m in my last year of highschool, and I don’t think my mother and father even have any idea of this kind of dead seriousness that so many parents seem to take for granted about school and homework…We always assumed that I’d go to a state college, so college prep was never an issue.
After reading about how so many kids are suffering, I feel so blessed that wasn’t me!!! I actually used to think my parents were lazy, and THANK GOD they were!!!
All of this, and down the road I’ll bet these kids and their families will have thousands of $s of student loan debt when they finally graduate….And thousands and thousands of college grads can’t find jobs so…THESE POOR KIDS!!!
If and when I have my own children, I’ll tell them they can just go to a regular PS, take the easiest classes, spend their time doing what they actually ENJOY, and not worry about homework/gifted programs/special schools/ and then go on to state college like how I will/did…If they ARE gifted, then instead of opting out of HW, I’ll just opt out of the gifted programs!!!! Or, I’ll tell them to just flat out LIE: They can be as average as possible in school, and we can explore all of their gifted talents when they get home!
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I think it is great idea but It hasnt made sense because yet I havent heard one website may change rules. (of course I havent yet learnt much about it but I am sure In the y country so in Poland It has never been posible.
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You really helped me a lot
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Ok so before I begin I am going to say I actually went through a difficult period of my life where homework was confusing, some homework I was awesome with and breezed through others I broke down crying at 11:59 PM about… Anyway since I know I probably don’t know the hell you guys are describing I’m going to provide a different view.. OUTER FAMILY, seriously though for a few years of my life I lived with 3 of my cousins and their mom, around the time my family moved the youngest entered middle school… coming to visit was traumatizing to me he gained a huge hatred for me and everyone else around him he shut himself out from the world. I was very confused and sad where had the fun Mario playing joke cracking Sasa I knew gone? So one day I hid out in his bedroom right before he was planning to have another one of his episodes.. and what did I find in one of his drawers? A 50 page letter obviously written a little bit each day to himself about how homework was destroying his life how he was so stressed and angry and couldn’t help taking it out on others and locking everyone out so he could do it.. he described how it felt the school making it seem like the only thing in childhood that matters is 1.school 2.homework. Family time? Screw that. Learning about nature and enjoying yourself? that’s for hobos! WTF society shame on you!
I know it damages the students in horrible ways and it even branches out to those who care about them… So schools I truly believe that the problem is many things including homework. First… well the amount of homework given to kids I mean think about it.. THIS IS MORE THAN ADULTS DO on a regular basis… Second teaching children there is only one way to be successful in life.. Go to 6-8 hours of school 5 days a week followed by 6-8 hours of homework for 5-7 days a week.. go to college get a masters (which apparently we are being taught means you are guaranteed to get a job 😐 wow) get a steady job working for the government and die… that’s apparently what life is in this society.. I could go on and on about education the amount of time spent on this and not this blah blah but you get my point.. What happened to the times our parents are telling us about? Times when childhood was fun where you enjoyed life and were given a chance to unwind before whats known has adulthood.. NOT ANYMORE I GUESS! Anyway I currently have a Huge science project to do that is actually meant for 8 Graders to do.. so Ta Ta for now…
Sincerely, The voice of my family A.K.A Abiti
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you should do your hw
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My son is homeschooled and we start school @ 6am and we try to end by 3pm and then his day is free. We do not have homework or discuss school after 3 pm. He has 9 classes and events-They want to teach our children time management but it seems that they become teachers to get rid of the time management gene. Parents are far too often called upon to finish teaching curriculum that they have no idea of how to dispense. Parents are not glorified wardens and we certainly do not get paid to teach. Homework is just as hard on parents especially parents who have jobs (1 or more). Parents have the social and civil responsibilities-Teachers have the educational responsibilities-however the roles have been switched-now teachers deal with the social ills of our society and parents have to teach until their children catch on so i chose to do both i was doing both anyway. If you don’t like the way the school is handling things remove your child from that environment or shop around for the environment that suits you, your child, and your family.
The lady who taught her children responsibility by implementing a routine that works has never dealt with ADHD, ADD,OD, or any other alphabet soup that most other parents have to deal with and she has found the environment that fits her family. Everyone else is welcome to find what fits theirs. But do not belittle peoples parenting skillls or the choices that people make for their families it is simply a matter of knowing your child-(that’s what teachers do)-they assume because it fits the masses it must work for all. Great job getting your kid a break. Lady-Don’t judge.
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Rosalinda you are wise beyond your years-and if you work and pay for school as you go guess what you will do better because you will pay yourself and you will finish because it is your idea not someone elses. you are smart. Beyond your years-Amen
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Ty she didn’t ever say she took homework away completely she took homework away for the day and she will monitor HER child because she knows How much HER child can tolerate-HER child – now what you do with YOUR child is not for her to judge. But you people really missed the point thats why children suffer from depression, kill themselves over grades, and even cut themselves-Nobody ever took the time to identify that on that day THEIR child needed a break and all they can say as the lid on the coffin shuts or the weed is fired up i just didn’t know-Well you can’t fault her for knowing What is best for HER child not every body elses. She and HER child took a break she didn’t invite the neighbor kids over for a drink. She did not commit a crime. THEY simply took a bit of time off-When ever you take a personal day from work because you have had enough who do you consult-That’s why jobs have personal days and why children have parents.
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#43
i hope you are lying-
you go to school 7-8hrs including transit now its 3p-so you work nonstop until 2am that’s excessive and homework is no indicator of achievement- it just sounds like your teachers have transferred their responsibilities on to you that ‘s why we are the one of the richest countries in the world with a population of children who cannot compete with the rest of the world-our children are teaching themselves
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Crystal #23
Teachers do not have time to complete the learning model at least not in the US. Teach-Teach-teach/support-support-independance-knowledge-teach-When the child is able to explain it in his own words using terms that he or she is familiar with then the child has learned it. Too many schools stop at teach #2 and turn over the rest to unqualified parents in the form of homework.
When the reality is Doctors have nurses and Lawyers have paralegals. What- in most if not all of the high paying professions the grunt workers are the ones who supply the facts-Even the President has a group of advisers read the volumes of briefs and then they submit their opinions on the matter.
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if you don’t do your homework the next day you gonna have troubles keeping up with the pack…..no good Garades……….no work……..no money……..no life
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She’s a fucking 6 year old. You want stress from school? Wait until she’s a junior in fucking high school. Not a 6 year old practicing spelling anymore. Wait until she asks you for help on fucking calculus
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And this is where it begins. Parents teach their kids that its ok not to do their school duties, and then by the time they reach high school they have the same mindset. So when they get a job (if they’re lucky since they won’t be going to college if they keep this up), what, can they just tell their boss that they don’t feel like working on assignments because “they are under too much stress”? This is not how the real world works. Children need to be taught from a young age that some things aren’t necessarily fun in life, but need to be done. This is why this world is full of lazy and stupid people.
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I agree with you. We also engage in fun activities.
Fun for my kids fortunately does involve homework. We gather together in our living or family room kids pull out their reading books or worksheets, I do my reading and we all have fun.
‘Homework’ is only work if kids are told it is work. Otherwise, creative writing and reading (which constitutes most of their homework anyway) is much more fun than watching TV and shutting out the outside world.
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I don’t like the idea of homework at all. Although, it may help us, that isn’t how I think of it. In my opinion, homework is like a party of stress. I have a B in math and the homework is SO HARD. (I am a 7th grader learning ALGEBRA!! 😡 ) I wish there was something where you could do school at home on a computer or TV, but teachers/educators just don’t approve.
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I find it actually hard to believe that SIX year olds get 30 mins.- 1 hour of homework EVERY day… I call bs and/or just pure fucking procrastination. WAKE UP PEOPLE! The world is not full of candy and goddamn butterflies! If you have to do it, then so be it. Get over it. And also, if the school is so hard, then how do you expect to learn? By shutting the outside world and watching movies? Hell no. If you have 5-7 hours of homework every night, LEARN HOW TO MANAGE YOUR TIME WISELY! Also, it might help to teach your child how to deal with stress. If getting homework done and having a day off gets the job done, THEN DO IT! The world is becoming a more demanding place, so learn how to cope with it, and at the same time, be successful!
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me too even I have banned my child fro doing home work.
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Being a 13 year old in 7th grade I wish we could just stop all this work all together, I mean seriously I am spending like 2 hours a day trying to find the value of X. I just think all kids need a break
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I am at school and in year 9. So many times I feel so overwhelmed by all the homework and if I don’t do I might get a detention and there is so much pressure its really not fun. Other nights its fine I just get it done but other nights I am so overwhelmed and just breakdown but have to it anyway. Something I find funny is that I have the most fantastic maths teacher and she makes maths really fun and interesting. She gives 10 minutes homework and she say’s there is no pressure to get it done by next lesson get it done when you can. But I feel like this makes children more comfortable to do their homework since there isn’t as much pressure and it isn’t made into such a big deal, its made fun!
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I applaud the article, and wish I could do the same with our 4th grader. What we have done so far is ban homework during summer and Christmas holidays. I haven’t read through all the comments except the first, and I applaud the answer expressing the need to assert ourselves as parents as the ones in charge and responsible for our children, and the need to improve our schools and make them come “alive”, and leave time for home to be “home”, for rest and play, refreshment and creativity. We can still teach respect and obedience to our teachers, while at the same time protecting and tending to their needs first of all. Our children are way too stressed, and they ARE losing their love and hunger for learning.
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oops, meant I only read up until Num. 6 and loved the respoonse to that.
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I’m actually only 11 years old and i agree obviously, cause homework is stressful, and is boring, and to be honest i never remember the things i learn when doing big essays and projects the same for the rest of my classmates, so technically homework is useless. I think its only given out because the teachers enjoy it, but think, we all have better things to do than homework, if you could choose between having fun and playing or watching a film (ect.) or doing homework, its going to be the first choice of having fun. In fact, the only reason us kids do homework is because if we don’t do it, it stresses us out and puts pressure on us for not doing it because we know we’ll get yelled at by the teacher, and if your in high school, like me, you’d probably get a detention too, and yet still they’d still say to hand in the homework! Not only this, like you said, Rosie, it puts pressure on the adult because they have other things they need to do than helping out on homework, and when us kids are older all of that stress and pressure (which shortens you life, thats what my dad said anyway) will go o nothing, homework isn’t going to change the adult we’re going to grow up to be, I know education is so that us kids will grow up and have good marks on our GCSE’s but homework won’t exactly change those scores, normal education in school will, we need that definitely, but not homework, and in a way, teachers would,t exactly like it either because once all of the assignments have been handed in, they’ll have a whole lot of marking to do which will be boring for them. That leaves me to say, what is the point of homework? Us kids don’t like it, we get stressed out, the parents and other adults helping the student do the homework don’t like it, it stresses them out too, even the people who set the homework, the teachers don’t like it, they have to mark it all, that is bound to stress them out, so there is no point in homework, we don’t need to actually do it, we need to be educated but not like this, because hardly any of us kids actually like school, we all know we have to go but once its over for the weekend or just sheerly the end of the day, we don’t want to (metaphorically) bring the school home with us, by bringing homework home, but for some reason, we have to.
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Sorry my comment was so long btw i got annoyed because i have a homework essay right now
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I’m a 14yr old from Yorkshire and our school literally stacks homework on you and hardly marks any of it to pass it back to you.
I believe homework is incredibly stupid and you shouldn’t get loads of it until you take your gcses ? For goodness sake they have started giving homework in Physical Education!!
What I find hilarious is they also expect homework to be in within days whilst they tell you to ‘take part in after school activities’ and ‘spend time with your family’. I salute parents who agree that homework is too much unlike many parents who tell you to just get on with it because they believe society is right and they can’t do anything to change how it is.
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I love this
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Homework and school should be band completely . Gcse don’t teach you anything they are pointless and wreck kids brains because their teachers stress them out with the constant moaning -gcses affect kids mental health and make them ill- they should be band completey to save kids and so they dont commit suicide.
Homework adds extra stress and causes kids to panick and stress out about what there teachers will say about there homework. This is uncalled for and is pathetic.
When kids are at home that’s there time not teachers work to be done time. Kids need to relax and have fun not feeling threatened by there teachers about pathetic pieces of homework.
Kids need to relax and have fun in order to be healthy humans of the world. No kids should have to put up with school or homework ever again!
Homework and school is banned now !
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Put a ban to school and homework !
Save the future by not forcing kids to go school and complete homework!!!!
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People are commenting saying that her kids wont be prepared for real life, I disagree. Even when you are older and have responsibilities you need to set aside time just to relax, or else we would all go insane. Homework does nothing but give me anxiety and gets in the way of the activities I would rather be doing that will help me in life; Examples including rehearsahl at my local theater and voice lessons. I want to pursue a life in music and that fact that math homework dosen’t allow me to prepare myself for that isin’t right. Besides if your going to have a office job working behind a desk your whole life then why would you need to deal with that kind of stress at 8. Just wait till you get there.
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I tell all my kids… Grades don’t matter! Only be sure to do all your homework. If you go to college and you have good study habits, you will have no problem in college… If you moderately breeze through school without doing homework, you will fail in college. It’s not about being intelligent, it’s about being able to prioritize when it comes to college.
All 4 of my kids have made straight A’s their entire educations with a B’s here and there. My oldest is Pre Med at OU and has a 4.0. She says taking notes and knocking out her homework is the key to her success….
Taking time for yourself is a GOOD thing… Denying the importance of Homework is not.
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yes but not everyone is as clever as ur kids joooblooo and even doing homework won’t improve our marks much, especially if we just do that work in school
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