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Homework Pros and Cons

Americans always debate on homework. Is it good? Is it bad? Everyone always has different view on this. If you were a student then of course you would say it is bad. But other people would think differently. I looked at both sides of this issue and I have added my own opinion to this subject. I came to the conclusion that homework does have some advantages but it also has disadvantages as well. Homework isn’t all bad. Sometimes doing homework can help you get a better score on a test. Getting a good score on a test and getting good grades will open the doors for you to go to college. Getting homework done can also help the students understand the curriculum better. By giving homework to younger elementary school kids, the parents will also feel some sort of connection to the classroom. “I think people confuse homework with rigor.” Homework isn’t given to students just for fun. It is given to them so they can practice the material that they learned in class. “Part of growing up is having a lot of homework everyday.” In order to prepare for the future, kids need to be working hard at a young age. Homework, according to some experts is bad and it is a negative influence on a teenagers/kids life. “Parents want their kids back.” Says an administrator from Pleasanton School District. This is true. Kids are getting more and more homework every night and this takes away from their childhood and from family time. Today, an average seconds grader is getting about an hour of pointless homework. As the generation goes on, more homework is assigned. This means less childhood memories. “There is simply no proof that most homework as we know it improves school performance.” Says the filmmaker and mother of 3, Vicki Adeles. Instead of improving your academic performance, it is negatively affecting it. “By expecting kids to work a second shift in what should be there downtime, presence of school work at home is negatively affecting the health of our young people.” Yes, if you study more then you are more likely to succeed. That is why kids go to the classroom everyday of their lives to learn. We don’t need to go home and keep learning what should be taught at school. It puts a lot of pressure on teens. Especially high school students. With sports and after school activities, high schools students don’t have time for all the homework that is given and then once they are behind on school work it is hard to make up for it. After looking at both sides of the topic, I came to the conclusion that homework is not the best thing for a student to be doing after school during their own time, but it at the same time can benefit them in some ways. If you ask me personally, I would say that I hate homework and I usually never get it done. The rare times that I do finish homework, I seem to do better in the classroom the next day because I am more in tune to what is going on because I worked on the curriculum a little bit more at home on my free time. It is also good because you get points for your homework and what you do at home so it brings your grade up a bit with every homework assignment that you do. Itisnt that good either because most kids spend all day trying to finish something that should be taught in the classroom. Students are being pressured because they say that places like China and Asia are beginning to become more academically advanced than places like California and the United States. Parents want their kids going college and doing good but sometimes pressuring them too much isn’t good and may result in students committing suicide for being pressured to do well and being punished when they don’t. Even though students say homework is bad and a waste of time, I think it has some benefits as well. In conclusion, some experts think it is bad and some think its good. Personally I believe that it is not all a waste of time but teachers should give students a little break when giving homework.