Homework is Detrimental to Learning

As a student for so many years, teachers give homework is to let their students be occupied with some work. Family time seems impossible other than dinner time. When your kids get home, they eat a quick snack and go to their room. They would work until dinner time, and then continue working after dinner.

Kids need a bit of freedom of their own to do extracurricular activities and hang out with friends. With a full day of learning, doing homework will only cause a negative effect on the kid's brain. The homework will not be done fully and will be done carelessly. They only want to get over with the days homework and hand it in.

Kids will often experience a head ache because too much is given to them. As an academic, they do not complain; thinking it will do them good in the future. As teacher limit the homework time, it will not do them any good. Homework is made for you to exercise your brain for what you learned that day. An academic student will complain about homework. Nobody likes homework, but why is it there for us?

With little time to relax the brain after school, the kid's brain may be overworked. Sleep is part of resting your brain but that is not enough. When you sleep, the stuff you learned at school gets entered in your brain, and it remains in there. Therefore that when you are sleeping, you are still actually learning. By watching some television or play some sports, this allows your brain to rest. While the brain is resting, it is preparing to receive the stuff you will learn the next day.

Mostly at school, you would be sitting taking notes or listening to lectures. The only movement is your hand guiding your pencil. The student's body will be tense and uncomfortable. When they rest by playing sports, they actually loosen up their muscles and a rush of relief fills them up again for the next day.

Weekends seem like the only time when students have a chance to relax. Out of five days of school, two days to relax doesn't seem possible. Homework should be a lot less. It should only be for a review rather as an exercise. This way it will benefit our brain a great deal.

Homework to teachers means more marking to do. Teachers have to read every single one and give it a mark. Many teachers would complain that they need more time to do the marking, than students doing their homework. This is because individual students have to hand in one piece of homework and the teacher has to mark thirty of them. While the students take a longer time to think, jot ideas and then write, it is harder than marking thirty pieces of homework.

The other reason why homework is given to you is because that many students don't hand in their homework. This is to train them to be responsible and get their homework done. When most do not like to spend extra time on homework, but it is mandatory.

Why spend extra time doing homework? All kids do is homework. There isn't really much time for the kids for themselves. Either school should be made shorter or less homework.