The Homework Debate

Homework, oh homework!! Have you ever wondered if homework hinders or helps a student academic success? However homework hinders a student academic success in many reasons. Homework might improve knowledge but it gets to the point where it annoys or even mess up with a student life. “Sometimes homework can lead to cheating, mental illness, and even suicide”. Homework hinders a student because its stress them, it takes away resting time, and the quality of family and friends time too. That is why homework hinders a student’s academic success in many reasons. Doing a lot of homework can stress a student a lot. In other words it means that a student comes home tired from a long day in school but later they have to do more work in the night. Some students just drop out because they are failing in their homework grade. In “school lesson plan: no more homework” by Jo Napolitano from Chicago tribune it says, “so many students were earning c’s when test and quizzes showed they had command of the material”. The significance of this quote is that some students are doing excellent in classwork but when it comes to homework they are failing.

Homework is stressing because it drives students crazy. In “I hate homework. I assign it anyway” by Jessica Lahey from The New York Time says, “Ms. Abeles claims that today’s untenable and increasing homework load drives students to cheating, mental illness, and suicide”. That is why homework stresses students. Homework hinders academic success because it takes away resting time. In other words it means that kids come sleepy from school and cannot rest because they have a lot of homework to do. It takes away the free time students have in the afternoon. In “I hate homework. I assign it anyway” by Jessica Lahey from The New York Time says, “busy work and assignment that don’t do anything but eat up precious evening hours”. Homework also takes time for doing things kids do that makes them kids. In “I hate homework. I assign it anyway” by Jessica Lahey from The New York Time says, “children’s need time to be quiet, play, read, and imagine”. Those were the reasons why homework takes away resting time.

We all know homework improves knowledge and academic skill. But the students need the quality of family and friend/relationship time. The relationship between parents and students could change and get bad. On “homework’s diminishing returns” by Harris coppe from The New York Times says, “these results also suggest that after a certain amount of homework the positive relationship disappears and might even get negative”. Also homework gets a student’s life mess up. In “ the destructive ‘too much homework’ myth” by Jessica lahey from The New York Times tell us that, “ the current generation of schoolchildren’s, they say, is enslaved by four to five hours of homework a night, toiling into the wee hours of the morning with no time for family or friends, driven to drugs, cheating, and mental illness”

As you can see, homework hinders a student’s academic success in many reasons. It stress students, it takes away resting time, and the quality of family and friends time. So now that you have read this do you think homework is a good or bad idea? When you have an answer let me know. Kids need the time to just relax and just do the things that makes them kids. Why a student should be doing work on a weekend when they should be playing and relaxing their days without any homework to worry about?

Works cited

Cooper, Harris. “Homework’s Diminishing Returns.” The New York Times. The New York Times Company, December 12, 2010. Web. Lahey, Jessica. “I Hate Homework. I assign It Anyway.” The New York Times .The New York Times Company, February 3, 2012. Web October 1, 2012 Lahey, Jessica. “The Destructive ‘Too Much Homework’ Myth.” The New York Times .The New York Times Company, March 6, 2012. Web. March 3, 2012 Napolitano, Jo. “School’s Lessons Plan: No More Homework.” May 8, 2005: pg. 37. Print