Fyrujah

As a Faculty Associate at Arizona State, I can attest that it is not homework that stresses students, it is having to work, get through school, have responsibilities and find balance. It's not easy but let's not blame homework

Bob Rauch

VERIFIED

Homework should be banned to allow children opportunities outside of the classroom to engage in activities that contribute to their growth outside of academia. For example, if a student wanted to participate in sports, this would help contribute to their physical well being as well learning skills like teamwork, resilience, problem solving and many other areas that would help them become more well rounded. Additional school work outside of the classroom is a distraction from opportunities that allow students to grow in other areas.

Rich Coutee

Class room is for direction, and homework for reinforcement.

Albert Long

Bernard Thompson

If one is going to school anyways, adding homework is just additional and unnecessary. Fun fact: homework was meant to be a punishment :)

I believe homework should most definitely be banned. My Grandma always called homework “schoolwork.” I believe any papers or assignments teachers give, should only stay in school. If schools make kids take their assignments home it will massive amount of anxiety. It also offers less social time. Think about it, you can’t go out and socialize a lot, because you’re stuck talking about the homework. Kids want to talk about other things. It also disrupts sleeping patterns. Kids are having to stay up late at night doing homework and only getting 5 hours of sleep. Humans on average should get roughly 8 hours every night. Kids need sleep to focus and process what they learned from schoolwork and class.

Tyler

Not sure it should be banned, but it should be attempted to get finished in class and then the student finishes it at home if they didn't finish it in class. The thing I hated most when my kids were still in school was their teachers would assign homework at the end of class. So, who gets to help with the homework? Parents, who worked all day. Who is better to help kids with assignments that they don't understand? The teachers, of course. I felt more like a teacher to my kids education and I didn't even get paid for it. So frustrating!

Christian Hogan

Homework should not be banned. However, I do disagree with the amount of homework that some teachers are assigning students. A small amount of homework would be beneficial to students because I see it as an extra practice. That way, students will still have their personal time to do what they want to do. Another alternative would be teachers assigning homework in the middle of the class and have the students work on them during the remainder of the class. If the students do not finish it, they have to take it home to complete it.

Mary

Jeff Rosenberg 

Yea I agree homework is good but instead of them getting worked up and stressed just have them study

Marwa

Tommy

Yes, homework can have a negative effect on kids (making them more stressed and taking away their time) but the idea of practicing at home and learning alone is essential for kids to learn and understand how to do by themselves. Students learning alone can give them the ability of learning things that interest them by themselves. Practicing information (such as math) can teach students how to keep knowledge and increase interest and understanding in further more complex studies.
I do believe that helping kids and teenagers organize their time and fitting the amount of homework according to the class are better ideas than just throwing assignments at them which is the main reason why students can be more stressed and lose their time for themselves.

Anonymous

Charles Kaplan

A nice sentiment, but a kids only job is to go to school. Homework reinforces what they were already taught, it shouldn’t be that difficult. Now if you want to argue the amount of homework, that’s a teacher by teacher basis. Had plenty of teachers give a lot of homework, mostly math lol, but it’s repetitive. My nieces now get time in class to do homework, they typically don’t come home with any outside of a project.

Eric 

How else would students put their learning into practice?

chum

It should be banned because there is already class work that the students do. This prepares them.

Hopp

Yes homework should be banned because it takes way to much of the students time and the students spend way to much time in their rooms instead of giving out homework why don’t schools have them do community service at least that way they are giving back to the community and with kids having homework when they want to do a sport they can’t because they have a lot of homework to do and they have to worry about grad3s and homework so homework should be banned and be replace with community service.

Daniel

homework is absolutely necessary. it’s a way to refresh and relearn what you were taught in class. you can’t expect a student to temper every single concept in class based on lectures solely. homework should help you retain the concepts you learn and target certain problems you need additional help. exams/test are inevitable when it come to school. if there’s no homework, you can not image just having a passing grade just by come to class and back home to hang out with friends or play with whatever interests you and forget what you learned hours ago.

Jenny

I believe assigning homework is a great way of teaching students how to manage their time properly.

Courtney

Homework should be banned because most adults can’t imagine going home and doing more work. Saying kids are getting paid in educated the thought that this generation wanna become “sexy reds” is scary. Which makes that argument in this day and age abolished.

Devin

Yes, It’s true students can get stressed, And to prevent that from happening, We should stop giving homework. It’s not really something to enjoy after a long day at school. Instead of homework, we could add extra lessons or a lot of practice at school with your friends. That way students might be less stressed about school.

cobey

I think homework is essential, just as I think studying is essential. The students need to practice what they've learned and further educate themselves on their own time to truly grasp the work and smarten their academic intellect. Homework provides many benefits, and it can be done by every class in a fashion that is the least stressful and difficult on the student. It helps teachers to know what the student knows and doesn't know, that way they can work on it more in class. That's just one example of how homework is beneficial.

Mackenzie

Sure have homework is stress but with homework students gain practice and time that will allow them to understand the topic then having them not understand or have the chance to show that they need help or understand it.

Suphia

Kids spend 7-8 hours at school. There’s no reason why this work shouldn’t be completed at school during that 7-8 hours. Kids want to to do other things when they get out of school such as work, sports, play outside, etc. Homework is literally just schools trying to control outside of school life.

Homework should be banned. Not only will it cause the student and parent stress, but it can get in the way of family activities too. Once you’re in middle school you have 8 classes. From each class is an unknown amount of work. Likely 2-3 assignments a day each class, and some classes are shorter than others. If the student can’t complete it in time they should have time after school to do it, without having to worry about homework too. It causes mental health issues, and if in elementary, it can cause parents to stress as well.

Jordan 

No because homework may be long but now a days students have multiple resources in the phones. Homework also opens a new world if thinking yea sometimes the material feel is long and boring but it forces you to think. To get an assignment done the quicks way I would say that in order to keep homework there need to be a change in what is being taught such as change some required classes. To classes we actually need in life make the homework simple but put your brain to the rest like a word puzzlw

Isaiah

You can have less to no homework for elementary school and middle school because they are children who need to enjoy their childhood spiritually not through papers. However young adults are think-they-know-it-all incompetent beings. Most don’t have the ability to self govern and self motivate. You can’t just see examples of specific people who turn out to be geniuses, strong students, having a healthy family, and put that claim on all students that they will behave the same. We can change the education system that drives a different point of view towards combatting education and motivation, but with the current state of resources and uncertainties of trial, we have to stick to the original homework base-consensus for a reason. It is a last resort that we know at least will get the job done, yes there are bad sides, but it is the best we can do for now without risking the whole system collapsing. The road to Rome was not built in one day. Rebuilding the system, one step at a time.

Harry

I do agree on the fact that a lot of homework can be stressful, but it’s not the homework alone that should change, it’s the regulations. The amount of homework and consequences is what places the most stress. Homework still teaches students to be responsible and helps them ensure that they understand the lesson.

The only reason it makes student stressed it’s because the student them self don’t know the topic because they don’t try, coming from a student my self if I knew the topic why wouldn’t I want a quick assignment that boosted my grade ?

Marcus

Should they ban tests and exams then??? They also make students stress. And they also have to take their times away from their family to study before the test. Also after school you have hours of time to finish some homework unless you finishing a whole assignment, which an assignment is not homework or are you trying to ban assignments too?

Aiden Cabiao

Homework often seems useless, but it teaches discipline, helps with repetition of things learned in school, and prepares kids for college and the real world where often times one’s work never REALLY ends at 5pm.

Ben Jackel

but perhaps how do you explain why there are kids who have stress by not eating or drinking and staying up to do homework.

Student sucide is a good reason why homework should be banned.

Maybe that happens rarely in our life. But if you search google, there are lots of student sucide

Appreciate your thoughts--this past semester, I had 3 of my 45 students have mental breakdowns. I excused them from upcoming due dates and reduced test, paper and homework pressure. Thankfully, no suicides!

We should also look to the fact that homework means more stress and limited time and depression . This leads to sucide. Besides, I have watched your debates and they are extraordinary.

Thanks for your perspective, I respect that and keep homework to 1-3 hours per week for 400-level college entrepreneurship courses

I love your enthusiasm but students have to waste their time just for several homeworks and putting pressure on them is not good though. I am a student and sometimes I can’t go out with my parents just for completing them. So, homework can destroy the time management for the students.

Yes, I do. I have always enjoyed outside activities despite working very full-time and going to night school to get both my Bachelors and Masters degrees. Thanks!

Hi Robert, I work a 40 hour week desk job and can attest to how having hobbies outside of my professional life contribute to my productivity while I am working. Do you think students would benefit from activities outside of learning while they’re not in the classroom?

Could you please explain a bit? It’s not good to hive homeworks for streghtening students and making them stress. Teachers can take quizzes or revision.

Yes I agree with you. Too many homeworks means more stress and less time curricular activities

Kavi Gmail

SUPERADMIN

Just to add on to my last comment. Adults go to classes, but they don’t come home with homework. They come with a brochure and a packet to look over. I believe the same should happen with kids all over the world.

I agree that kids should go to school. Work done at school is called “schoolwork” and work done at home is called,”homework.” If any assignment or project leaks outside of those four walls, it will indeed cause anxiety, stress, depression, and suicide. Homework is just a bland set word problems that have no real world basis. So therefore, it would more beneficial a teacher guides them through real world examples. I believe classroom time should most definitely be extended.

Shoot I didn’t either when I was in school. Schools now are odd to me. They get less homework and more time in class to do it so essentially there’s no excuse to get it done. Atleast that’s how it is in Southern California.  Extra curricular activities and fun stuff is more of a time management thing then anything else.

Your neices might be fortunate but not other children have the same time. In my school, I couldn’t finish my homework when I had no tasks. If I did, they thought I don’t focus and threatened me to give me detention. How frustrating do you think is that?

uhh I meant if u give them direct answers and hint.

Yes I researched about the cons of homework. Children gets tired of homework. So, to make them keen to study, teachers can assign some fun activities regarding the topic or something like that. I respect teachers and I do realize your hard work.

So, the teachers need to teach, that's what they are paid to do. Not do whatever they are doing in class and giving kids a print out with no instructions at the end of class and sent home. It's frustrating for the children and the parents.

But, @afsheen, what do you mean by your comment? The more someone helps the students, the more they won't give any effort on homework? Homework encourages cheating?

No, that's my point. I ended up being a teacher for my kids because they came home with so much homework. I had to spend time googling mathematics that I hadn't used since high school and definitely isn't even taught the same way as when I was in school. The kids don't even have books with examples anymore. They come home with a print out of the homework assignments with no instructions. How is this a good thing for families? Where is the quality time spent together? It's school, work, homework, eat late dinner, sleep, and repeat.

Are you a teacher? The more you help your students Hogan, the more your students won’t give any effort on the homework. Homework encourages cheating.

And this gives them more stress and depression and the darkest of them is sucide.

Yes that’s the thing. Students need to deal with time management. Children have limited to do other activities. I am a student and I always wanted to do Maths Olympiad but these homeworks can steal my time. “Just complete at home” is not an easy thing

Good question. Revisions and quizzes would do.

Should homework be banned?