Homework

The conflict over homework has been going on for years. Parents and their children have been stressed out over homework, but others argue that homework is a good thing. In this essay I will be covering both sides on this great issue and I will also state my opinion.

According to the experts, homework is bad for us students and the quality of our childhood lives. Many teachers give out homework that lasts for hours on end ad is only thought of as busy work by everybody. This busy work that doesn’t help us at all with school, in fact, takes away from our overall performances. Because we are spending so much time on homework, we barely get enough hours of sleep to be able to focus and learn during school. “Galloway, a mostly middle-class community north-west of Atlantic City, is a part of a wave of districts across the nation trying to remark homework amid concerns that high-stakes testing and competition for college have fueled a nightly grind that is stressing out children and depriving them of play and rest, yet doing little to raise achievement, particularly in elementary grades.”

These hours of homework are not only negatively affecting the health of young students, but also the quality of family time. Many parents of students with homework hardly get to see their child and actually talk with them.

Many people might argue that homework is good for us and helps us in the long run. Some say “efforts to roll back homework have been opposed by those who counter that there is not enough time in the school day to cover required topics and that homework reinforces classroom learning.” Because the economy is so bad, our school days have been cut to a shorter number of days in the year, leaving out opportunities to teach what they want to be able to teach. It’s said that students in China and India have a better economy than us because they take their homework and testing a lot more seriously than America.