Poll: "There should be NO homework" A petition to get rid of homework in schools.

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well homework is a form of learning. Homework is not that bad seriously you have damn well ample time to do it. Also no one needs 12 hours of sleep ever unless they are having serious jet lag or need to catch up on sleep. Growing people need 10 hours not 12 hours. Even at that 8 is sufficient part way through puberty.

How does this person expect to learn especially in Maths if they do not go homke and try the work for themselves. Yes homework can be irratating but it is not that bad. Tests that determine the rest of your life are eg Leaving Cert. I have to study for an hour and half every night then do homework so I can pass a set of exams next summer that determine my last 14 years of schooling on a 9(for me mins is 6 but most choose 7 I am not complaining I took extra) 2 year courses. So no homework is not that bad this person if they are sincere needs to grow up.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

My feelings are varied. Grade level, course material, etcetc. all influence the need or usefulness of homework. Two factors I would prioritize: efficiency of learning (does homework make sense for the material) and approachability/appeal. I think the typification of schooling as a chore/occupation could be stifled if we stopped embracing it as an assumption. Naturally, it is still something we 'have' to do, but it could be better organized to be less painful, and, dare I say, more enjoyable. This is especially the case if coursework work were oriented toward student interests or intended career paths.

 

[interspark]

hmmm, i don't think some kids can work effeciently at the relaxed atmosphere at home as opposed to the tension and pressure of school. i mean, homework in school is just reviewing and revising what the students do in class, which is helpful, but not essential so it should be something advised but not demanded. but of course, in college and uni, it's just the lectures and note taking done in class, and the actual work done in the students' own time, so it's essential there

so as for schools, i voted "no"

 

[Jodan]

we need homwork it prepares us for the time when we are juggling life, work and 4 papers for 2 courses in university. if i hadnt uv had homework i would be dead

 

[Sporky111]

I believe there are two kinds of homework, and only one of them should be given out.

1: work that couldn't be covered in class, but needs to be finished anyway to keep the class on schedule. This includes reading of course material and large projects that take several days to complete. If there isn't enough time in class to get it done, then yes: it is the student's responsibility to finish on their own time to get a good mark.

2: Homework that is issued at the end of class and expected to be finished by the next day. This is unfair, I think. The student is not given a chance to work on it IN CLASS (where they're supposed to the bulk of their work). And not only that, if the student has problems with the assignment they can't ask the teacher for help on it.

Number two is also an excuse for bad teachers to keep up to standards. Padding a student's marks with small assignments means they can pass without as many tests. I also had teachers in school who wouldn't even teach half the time. They'd do a bit of the lesson, then go off on a tangent and ramble off for most of the class. Then at the end of the class, they'd expect us to finish the reading and the assignment on our own time. Even though THEY wasted OUR time in school, where they are supposed to be teaching to earn their salary.

 

[Unesh52]

I've always thought that mandatory homework was stupid. Why are we spending 5 hours a week per class getting instruction if you're going to introduce even more material outside of it. If it's all for practice, then giving me specific things I have to turn in takes away my ability to prioritize which things I need to practice, meaning I study less effectively. In college they do give you assignments, but you only have class about 3 hours a week. When it comes to practice they basically leave it up to you. Besides, most of the time homework is just shit. It's not even practice. Word finds involving historical references, for example. I used to get those a lot, and they took forever because I'm not very good at word finds. My time would've been much better spent just, you know, reading in my history book.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do work outside of class, but giving specific assignments and holding grades over students' heads is an awful way to do it.

 

[dalek sec]

Repetition and practice are the keys to long lasting knowledge. Homework is a easy way to do that. But of course it has to be good homework. Meaning that it should offer a variety in difficulty, to allow a pupil to self-check his level of understanding.

It should not be a monotonous grind on one difficulty level. Boring the good students, intimidating the bad ones.

Pretty much this and besides, I had to suffer through it so why shouldn't the next generation suffer like we did?

 

[Mr Montmorency]

I prefer to keep my work environment and my rest environment seperate. I picked maybe, as homework should only exist for dumb morons, and not the people who are on top of their work. It's a waste of free time.

Only a handful of jobs have work at home, so don't play that card either. that's not even mentioning that homework shouldn't be used as justification for that.

It's a shame that every fucking kid is an idiot who wouldn't learn shit without homework, cause it's ruining it for the rest of them.

I don't quite understand. I know NO ONE in my Dynamics class who can learn the material without practicing its application in the form of homework.

In K-12, there were classes that did not require any review of the material at home, but I feel as if that was the exception rather than the rule. I consider homework to have been worthwhile just for it teaching me effective study habits and responsibility that prepared me for college. Homework is infrequently mandatory, but not doing it means making the mistakes on the test that could have been instead made while doing homework.

If the work has to be continued at home, then clearly they're not teaching you properly when you're in school. The shit you get for home can just as easily be done in school. And in fact, I could when I was in school-- whenever I got yet another shitty worksheet to fill out, I'd do it (begrudgingly) then get out my homework and try and do that. They actively TOLD me to not do it in school, even though I did all the work. And it was a GCSE, so it was fucking easy, and the homework was like filling out an application form every day, that's how easy the homework was.

As I said, a waste of free time. They should give you a set amount of work, TEACH IT, and you get tasks to do. If you don't do it all in the allotted working time, then it's your responsibility to get it done, YES, I'm fine with that, but they shouldn't waste my time for the sake of it.

I can do a shitload of work and get MORE homework because they have to give it out for the sake of it. I can have no work, I've reached my target, and I'm on top of my tasks, and they can have the brass balls to tell me to "come back for more if you have no work to do". Really.

That's like saying "Well, you've completed all your work in your shift, there are no more shelves to stack. I'll just go ahead and knock these on the floor, and you can keep stacking them and knocking them off until the shift is over."

 

[KefkaCultist]

Nope, I procrastinate horribly and don't finish homework yet on tests and quizzes I get 100s and a 26 on my ACT because I know the material well.

I think if they're gonna have homework it should just be for practice and not for a grade because it sucks to fail even though your test grades are phenomenal.

 

[Kryzantine]

I think that some homework is just ugly and some homework is really, really useful. I had this one elective class where the teacher only asked us to write essays because the school required him to, so he gave us tiny 2 page assignments once every 3 weeks or so. He concentrated a lot of his work on the things we wanted to focus on, like consumerism, the theory of states and anarcho-primitivism. The important thing is that he never asked us to answer more than 5 questions on one topic.

I had this one teacher who was blessed with the most amazing life story ever (like, everything happened to this guy. He went from being a tennis pro to a taco vendor to an Army Ranger to a Wall Street lawyer to an economics teacher). I don't believe he ever asked us to write anything for homework. Actually, the only writing we did for his class was extra credit and test essays. His daily HW? Read through some pages in a textbook. We learned mostly through class. He could teach and he kept us awake all the time with his sheer badassery.

And I've had bad teachers. I've had guys who assigned boatloads of work to people with complete disregard to their schedules. I've seen guys that demanded you do HW that was never used again in the class, who didn't even review it. And I even had one teacher who gave us tests based on material we hadn't gone over at that point, that was fun.

In my experience, the people who came in the next day with the most preparation and the most knowledge of what was going on were some of the worst homework people ever. I consistently meet students with 95 averages (out of 100) that have no clue what's going on and meet students with 80 averages that assert themselves and know what's going to happen (for reference, the difference is almost entirely homework). They have the references to tie together and create viewpoints that are useful to discussion that others don't have. And sure, I've seen great students that were knowledgeable. But they were rare. And they'd usually pass out randomly.

That's not to say I disapprove of HW, but going through 70 math problems every day isn't going to make you a rocket scientist.

 

[Mr.Napier]

Sometimes trolls are obvious but other times they just don't even try.

 

[bob1052]

its simple, homework should be extra work for those who need it. It should not be mandatory to do.

There are two people in the classroom. The children and the teacher. Only one of them has enough intelligence and experience to recognize who needs homework.

 

[mirror's edgy]

His ill rested body couldn't take the stress of the liposuction...
HOMEWORK KILLS

 

[Gothtasical]

Ingoring the kids terrible grammar there are a few points of this
most highschool students get home from around 4:00 to 5:30 this varies upon where you live of course and as well as what stop you are on a bus or if you ride home in a car. Adding another 2-3 hours for band chorus or sport practice. Not including the games and/or special events so most would get home from around 6:30 to 7:30 then include 30 minutes for eating dinner and thirty minutes for shower ( I know most people don't take 30 minutes but who knows) as well as other chores and whatnot. and then do homework and get ready for bed takes perhaps another hour or two depending on homework. so most kids can get to go to bed around 9:30 thats not to bad but where also not including those who have jobs, have to do book reports and essays and/or projects such as a certain science one we get every year add among hundreds of different things. and then expect them to do the same thing tomorrow. and the next day and the next day. on top of the most of the day spent at school.

Now i'm not saying get rid of homework because let's face it, it helps grades and helps you build among the knowledge you have. but i really don't want to get a essay from one teacher 2 workbook pages for another as well as having to study for a test that the teacher just told me i that we have the following day.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

I don't think they should remove homework at all. With subjects like Maths, Music (if you do it) and languages, there should be some each night. A VERY SMALL AMOUNT, but still some. For other core subjects like English, History, Science etc. I think that there should not be nightly homework, but instead small assignments constantly.


Also, I love this line "By assigning homework, you are supporting obesity in children." lolwut?

 

[Risingblade]

Sure take away homework then half the students will fail. You know you won't study...

 

[Jake the Snake]

You may not like homework, but its how shit gets done. It's also how you learn said shit. Without homework, you would have no idea how do anything or your classes would be MUCH longer. It would suck.

Also, did the person even try to sound intelligent writing that petition? I couldn't even finish the damn thing. It was like reading My Immortal all over again...ok maybe not that bad, but still...

 

[Daffy F]

Haha. This is hilarious. It is often a tell-tale sign with these things if the grammar is poor, but in this case it's just the icing of the cake. If anybody, anywhere, ever thinks that the childhood obesity in America is caused by homework, then they are severely delusional. That or thick. Or maybe both...

 

[Bobic]

That kid be daft, yo.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The terrible grammar on that petition tells me that this kid should be getting MORE homework.

Exactly. I mean, I don't enjoy homework that much either, but when you've got people trying to make petitions like this, the last thing we need is less education.