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Persuasive Essay Homework

A student stressfully looks over her to–do list at the end of her long school day. She has to read

twenty pages from her history book and be prepared for a quiz over the material, finish 15 difficult

math problems that she doesn't know how to do, make a keynote presentation, and complete difficult

physics problems. She already went to school and had to use her brain for over seven hours. Now

she must go home and spend hours devoted solely to homework if she wants to finish before

midnight and get more than five hours of sleep. Homework should be limited because it has

negative effects on students ́ health and well being, robs them of valuable family time, and

overloads them instead of productively teaching them.

Homework can put extreme stress on physical health as well as mental and emotional feelings.

Some teachers assign long menacing assignments often. Its as if they think they are the only teacher

their students will see and do homework for. When all teachers assign homework at once, it can

quickly add up to hours worth of homework. Many students are having to stay up to unreasonable

hours for school work. There are multiple student accounts of having to stay up past midnight to

complete all assignments. A middle school student said she has worked on homework until 3 AM a

few times (Gonchar). Sleep is a very important thing for growing teenagers because professionals

say it is a time for the body to rest, a time for cells to grow, and a time for other biochemical

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Persuasive Essay Homework

Homework has been a topic of conversation and controversy in elementary education for as long as

many people can remember, the pros and cons have been argued and researched time and time

again. While most professionals in the field agree that homework is needed and helpful in middle

and high school grade levels, when it comes to younger grades the information strongly shows that

it is a waste of time. At its core homework has two possible effects in the home. Homework can be

seen as a rule over parents from the school to manage their children's time outside of school or as a

way to inform parents on what their children are currently studying and allow them a participation in

their children's education (Wright). Around the time leading.. more content...

But when it comes to the elementary grade levels, the cons of homework far outweigh the pros. The

research shows time and time again that higher levels of homework in elementary school cause

more issues than it does benefits. So, what are the cons? And how can learning be encouraged

outside of the classroom without it having a negative impact?

In 2008 the MetLife American Teacher series polled students, teachers, and parents on their feelings

and thoughts about homework and the results were as follows; one–third of parents rated the quality

of homework given as fair or poor, one–quarter of students say that they as if their homework is

busywork and unrelated to what they were learning in class (MetLife). But, one of the leading

reasons that people support homework in elementary levels is because they believe it can kick–start

healthy and even necessary habits. These habits include; time–management, study skills,

independent working, etc. It is unrealistic to expect students to gain important life skills from poorly

created and unrealistic homework.

Jay Matthews of the Washington Post says "What most people do not know about elementary school

homework is that the research strongly suggests that it is a waste of time, something I began to

suspect after my daughter's eighth or ninth collage." Matthews consulted with a Duke psychologist

who helped him to conclude that in elementary education the correlation

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Persuasive Essay Homework
A student stressfully looks over her to–do list at the end of her long school day. She has to read
twenty pages from her history book and be prepared for a quiz over the material, finish 15 difficult
math problems that she doesn't know how to do, make a keynote presentation, and complete difficult
physics problems. She already went to school and had to use her brain for over seven hours. Now
she must go home and spend hours devoted solely to homework if she wants to finish before
midnight and get more than five hours of sleep. Homework should be limited because it has
negative effects on students´ health and well being, robs them of valuable family time, and
overloads them instead of productively teaching them.
Homework can put extreme stress on physical health as well as mental and emotional feelings.
Some teachers assign long menacing assignments often. Its as if they think they are the only teacher
their students will see and do homework for. When all teachers assign homework at once, it can
quickly add up to hours worth of homework. Many students are having to stay up to unreasonable
hours for school work. There are multiple student accounts of having to stay up past midnight to
complete all assignments. A middle school student said she has worked on homework until 3 AM a
few times (Gonchar). Sleep is a very important thing for growing teenagers because professionals
say it is a time for the body to rest, a time for cells to grow, and a time for other biochemical
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