Introduction:
I wrote this essay on April 9th 2014. The purpose of this essay is to learn how to write this kind of essays.
I wrote this essay on April 9th 2014. The purpose of this essay is to learn how to write this kind of essays.
Reflection:
The hardest part of writing this assignment is to do research and find information. Something I did well on this assignment is I had a very clear mind. If I had to do this assignment again, I will do more research. What I learned from this assignment is that I knew how to write this kind of essays.
The hardest part of writing this assignment is to do research and find information. Something I did well on this assignment is I had a very clear mind. If I had to do this assignment again, I will do more research. What I learned from this assignment is that I knew how to write this kind of essays.
Students now have a lot of homework. Much of the time, we are doing our homework. Homework gives students too much pressure. Because of the homework, students cannot do things they like. So I think school should band homework. Although now we have homework at school, I believe homework is not necessary.
First, more homework will not help students have better grades. According to Dr. Walker who is from Sydney University’s education faculty, said in countries where they spend more time on homework, the achievement results are lower. For example like me, now we have a lot of homework, but when there were more homework, I even didn’t want to do them more. If I don’t want to do my homework, I will not want to study too. So that is why the achievement results are lower. According to Study Finds Too Much Homework Bad for Students, Tai and two co-authors looked at transcripts and data for more than 18,000 tenth grade students nationwide. Their findings show more homework assignments didn't translate into better grades. If homework doesn’t relate to grades, then there is no reason to do homework.
Second, homework wastes students’ time. According to What Negative Effects Does Homework Have on a Student's Social & Family Life? by Van Thompson, a 2004 University of Michigan study found that the amount of homework has increased 51 percent since 1981. Review of Educational Research" study found that the current way teachers assign homework is not academically beneficial. Teachers should know very clearly that why they give students homework, but if homework cannot help students to get better grades, then that means teachers are assigning work with no purpose, they waste students’ time. According to Homework is a waste of time by amber13007, students already spend six hours a day at school, we shouldn’t take the responsibility to spend more time on our homework during afterschool time. I think homework is overworking. Students cannot spent time on some useless extra work.
Third, homework gives students’ negative effect. Students should spend their time on something they like. Now at weekend, I am always doing my homework, I don’t have time to do some interesting activities like riding bicycle, watching movie, I just spend time sitting in my room and face the computer. And homework also affect our health. According to a 2004 study published in "Current Issues in Education," homework can greatly increase family stress. Family may spend time fighting with their children’s homework issue. Like my family, my parents always fight with me because I did my homework until very late at night. Because of homework, we cannot sleep well. Homework affect students’ daily life. The study in "Current Issues In Education" found that homework can disrupt family routines. A child who has several hours of homework, for example, might not be able to eat dinner with her parents. I feel really bad for student like me who cannot have normal daily life because of homework.
To summarize, homework will not help students and at the same time it even wastes students’ time and affect their normal life. So school should ban homework.