Demand an End to Homework, Now!

Homework can be a beneficial tool to help a student apply certain concepts that they have learned. However, since they may not have someone sitting next to them or working through it to make sure that it is correct; they could just be practicing bad habits and learning how to do problems the wrong way. Perfect practice is the only way to ensure that students are learning the right concepts. If they are doing it wrong, then it isn’t helping and is actually making things worse. Parents today learned how to do many of these concepts so long ago that they may not be able to assist their children in their homework. That leaves the student to fend for himself.

Students sit in school all day and barely get any exercise. When they get home, they have to sit some more and do their homework. By the time they are done, it is time to get ready for bed. Where is the time for activity? Where is the time for exercise? The fact is that there is no time. During the school week and sometimes on the weekends, the student is busy doing work and school and homework at home. They don’t have time to play sports and if they do then they are rushing through their homework anyways.

It is another thing to grade and most of the time it doesn’t even show how well a student understands a concept. Homework can be an improper tool to test a student’s abilities. If you have your classmate do your homework for you, then it looks like you really understand topics that you don’t really understand. You can give your teacher the improper information. If you do the homework yourself and just rush through it, you can make careless mistakes and that will lead to incorrect information being given to your teacher as well.

All and all, the whole constitution of homework needs to be revised. There is seriously got to be another way to help students understand the different topics. If the reasons behind homework are to give the kids some solid hands-on experience, then maybe they should just do this in class instead of sending it home for them to do all by themselves.