Is Homework Beneficial?

[Triz]

What are the pros and cons of homework? Is it beneficial?

In the early 1900s, progressive education theorists decried homework’s negative impact on children’s physical and mental health, leading California to ban homework for students under 15. Public opinion swayed in favor of homework in the 1950s due to concerns about keeping up with the Soviet Union’s technological advances.

Today, kindergarten to fifth graders have an average of 2.9 hours of homework per week, sixth to eighth graders have 3.2 hours per teacher, and ninth to twelfth graders have 3.5 hours per teacher, meaning a high school student with five teachers could have 17.5 hours of homework a week. Teenagers now spend about twice as much time on homework each day as compared to teens in the 1990s.

What are your viewing on homework?
Is it beneficial to children, or quite the opposite, or perhaps in moderation it's a good thing?

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[-:Undertaker:-]

When I was in school, we barely got homework and even when we did most of the time most people didn't do it. Was largely a waste of paper. In the school I work in now, they set a lot of homework but I hardly set any homework - unless they've been lazy in class then they have to go and finish the work off at home. I remember whenever I got Maths homework (I am hopeless at Maths) my mum ended up having to solve them because for me it was just impossible. Waste of time.

So I am quite anti-homework.

[Mikey]

I think like basic homework like reading or watching a film/television programme related to the work you are doing for when you are in the primary school and the early years of secondary school. I think once you are in the year for sitting exams on then it would be beneficial for preparation for revising and to ultimately help with examination preparation.

[Triz]

I'd agree with the above points...

Kids don't have the attention span to continue more work at home after spending 6 hours at school. I personally hated school and can't actually remember a time where I did home-work... I just never did it, I often copied from someone else who had done it the morning it was due in and changed some of the answers to be wrong/different lol.

Kids are expected to do this work at home, when they probably didn't understand it in class, so what makes the teacher think they'll be able to do it unassisted.. It just ends up the parents doing the teachers job and trying to teach their kids, or the parents giving up and just telling them the answers... I'm crap at maths too, and my dad has 4 other younger kids, and he bought home their maths homework once, and I couldn't even understand it, let alone attempt to solve it... I'm not sure if that's due to the fact I'm crap a maths, or because they've drastically changed the methods used etc...

[Googlemere]

During elementary school (grades 1 to 6), we were assigned homework almost every night. I didn’t understand the purpose of

[Googlemere]

... it at the time and it always felt so unfair lol. But the point of it was to recap the lessons and information we learned earlier in the day, repeating it to help our brains remember and store the info. The homework was just to repeat and practice terms and definitions mostly, to start building up the ‘foundation’ of knowledge.

Then for junior high (grades 7-9), homework was still pretty much assigned daily but instead of it being just a recap of exactly what was taught that day, it became more about practicing critical thinking and how to apply concepts from a textbook to the real world.

And then in high school (10-12) there was just so much damn material to cover for every class that homework was not mandatory anymore and just depended if you wanted to pass your classes and graduate or not lol.

[Jarkie]

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[Triz]

I personally think working at home is an improvement for many in regards to money saving from not shopping at Lunch times, less coffee buying, less travel costs and potentially more "family" and sleep time. For business it means less rent on office spaces which in turn means more profit for the business in the long run.

However, the drawbacks is (and I've seen it in my line of work) it has increased domestics where people are now learning they cannot actually live together 24/7. Additionally, it is believed peoples mental health will now start to get worse if you aren't used to "self isolation". As much as speaking to people VIA a camera, it is never the same in person. - this is my quick spill on the current issue.

lmao, I think you've drastically misread the title

[Jarkie]

lmao, I think you've drastically misread the title

Oh god so I did, my bad! I need more caffeine.

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My opinion homework is a terrible idea, as growing up I never felt like I benefited from it and it is just extra pressure outside of school.