Final+Semester+Essay

Jason Dowell Mr. Geib English Period 4 19, March 2012

All throughout America people have been debating if we should have no homework or a lot less. Kids have been losing their childhood or have been very tired and exhausted. According to the teachers and many people, that homework is good and they need lots of homework. “Part of growing up is having a lot of homework every day. You’re supposed to say, ‘I can’t come out and play because I have to stay inside and do homework.’ ” Homework helps kids for school and helps them on their quizzes. In the next couple of paragraphs I will explain the bad side and the good side of homework. Homework is bad and has a negative influence because when you are doing so much work, it takes you away from other things. Like when kids are doing homework it takes them away from their childhood.”Parents want their kids back.” Parents are actually taking action because their kids are spending so much time doing their homework. “Kids need to be able to play; they need outlets.” Parents see their kids buried into their books and they are just spending hours on their homework. Parents want to be able to spend time with their kids and they want them to play and have fun before they get older and kids don’t want to do anything with their kids. Doing so much homework can’t always help you in school. “There is simply no proof that most homework as we know it improves school performance.” Obviously it can help you learn and understand school a little bit better but there is no need to give a ton of homework in each of your classes. “Ms. Abeles claims that today’s untenable and increasing homework load drives students to cheating, mental illness and suicide.” Tons of homework is driving kids insane and a couple times it lead them to kill them self because they couldn’t handle it. In some cases homework can be a helpful thing and I agree with that but a lot of homework all the time can’t be very good. Teachers should at least consider how much homework they are giving away and if they have to do a lot in other classes. Homework is what helps us learn, without it we wouldn’t be able to learn very much and just forget it. “Its practice for what we learn in school.” Homework helps us learn for what we are going to do in class. It also helps us get ready and prepares us for tests and quizzes. If we didn’t have homework we probably wouldn’t be very smart. What homework does is to improve school performance. It also can inform basic skills on different things. According to Jared May; Homework keeps kids away from drugs by having something to do. Homework also helps parents relate to their kids to they can spend time with them and help them with their homework. Homework helps you learn and can make you more intelligent. “Most kids can’t spell without spell check or add unless it’s on the computer.” Kids can’t even do this simple thing, does that mean we should give more homework out so they will be able to do it and understand it? “If we coddle them when they are young, what happens when they get into the real world? No one is going to say to them, ‘You don’t have to work extra hard to get that project done, just turn in what u got’” Homework doesn’t just make you more intelligent or give you basic skills but it also teaches you responsibility and to do your work. Most of my life I didn’t like homework and didn’t want to do it. Whenever I thought about it or had to do it I would curl up into a ball, or just complain and not do it. When I was in elementary school I would cry and yell at my parents that I didn’t want to do it. When I got into middle school I would do it sometimes depending if I wanted to do it. Sometimes I would lie to my parents telling them that I ‘am all done with my homework and I that I had did it at school. Now that I am in high school homework is an important thing to do. Homework may not be my favorite thing to do but I have to get it done. Homework helps kids practice things on their own without having a teacher. When you get older you will have a job and when you have a job you will need to do work and when you don’t do your work you will get fired. Even though we get homework it teaches us what to do and prepares us for tests and also teaches us responsibility. Without homework we would probably fail a big majority of our tests. To me not all homework can be good but some of it is and it’s a good thing that we do it. To kids homework is a bad thing. We are still arguing and debating to give no homework out to kids. It can be understandable that we shouldn’t give out homework out to kids in elementary school but in middle school that’s when they need to grow up and start learning some responsibility. Will we ever solve this problem over homework? Who knows, were will the homework lead to us next?