Homework- A Waste of Time?
by Do you consider homework a waste of time? You may be right- here’s why.
Homework, teachers argue, serves as a learning tool. They say that homework teaches you- but what does it teach?
The assignment of homework, through time, begins to become a routine for youth, from their early ages (as toddlers, even) to their early teens, in high school. However, is it really useful? Some teachers may argue that it “reinforces” what was taught in class- this is not necessarily true. Why give homework that is supposed to reinforce, when many of the students decide to blow it off and do it at the very last minute. To reinforce anything, one must have sleep, to let the information sink in. Giving homework has been proven not to “reinforce” anything- it simply causes a hassle.
Other teachers may say that homework causes students to become diligent in their work, persistent, and less of procrastinators- however, despite their fantasies, homework causes the complete opposite of all of these. Assigning loads of homework means that the students tend to spend less time on it, and therefore blowing things off as if they do not matter, their diligency dulling after a mere year of this pointless work; it also makes them think that the matters in class are unimportant, and they tend to wait until the last minute to complete anything- therefore, homework encourages procrastination.
Students often “cram” before major tests, instead of studying for them over a long period of time, and therefore making a better grade. This “cramming” is procrastination. If a student spends 50 hours over the course of a month doing homework for a class, do the teachers really think they will spend another hour a day studying for it? No, they wont.
When a student goes to college, they get a relief from all of this. Most classes (not all) require a mid-term project/paper/test, and an end-of-term project/paper/test as well. The students learn before long that they need to study- it takes them a few weeks to learn diligency, and persistency. Now, why can’t we have that for the first twelve years of our education?
-Savannah Cash
Liked it
