Kids Should Not Have Homework: 5 Arguments to Support Your Point

Kids Should Not Have Homework: 5 Arguments To Support Your Point

Homework has been a part of students’ lives for so long that the idea of not doing it can seem incredible, surreal, or even impossible. But if you stop to think about it, the truth is that homework is not necessary. Do you have trouble believing that? Well, here are a few great arguments that will definitely convince you.

Without further ado, here are the top five best arguments that will definitely convince any naysayers that homework is not something that should be done by kids.

Kids already have seven hours of school. You start school at eight and go home at three. That’s a full day of school. Most adults work similar lengths of time at work and come home exhausted. Yet they can’t understand when their kids have trouble focusing at the end of a full day of learning. And that brings us to our next point.
It’s counterintuitive to make children spend too many hours studying. If an adult has attention problems, that’s nothing compared to a kid. Children are still growing, their brains aren’t yet fully developed, and it’s crucial that they get a lot of exercise and free time. Something that they could do in thirty minutes if fully rested and energized will drag on for four hours if they’re restless and can’t focus because they left seven hours of school to directly jump into three hours of homework.
Getting sun and exercise is crucial for your health. If you’re cooped up in school during the day, then have to do your homework when you get home, you’ll develop poor health. A much better solution would be to do all the learning you need to do in one place, in a short amount of time. When you stop school, that’s the time for you to play and go outside and get exercise.
Seven hours of school should be enough to learn anything. Sure, let’s say that you have recess and lunch--there’s still a good five hours where you’re studying. If you can’t learn what you need in that time, there’s a problem. Rather than giving you lots of homework after school to compensate, schools should look at how they can rework teaching systems in class to make the most of the time you have in school.
Having a social and family life is important. In short, you should have a balanced life. Many adults get angry if their work life spills over into their personal life. They like to go out after work and spend time with friends. But children should get the same respect. School is a time for learning, and it takes up much of the day. After school is the time for pursuing your own hobbies and personal pastimes

homework matters: top five (5) reasons you probably should do your homework

Sorry, but homework really does matter.

Annoying, yes. Boring, usually. Important for your academic success? Very much so.

See below for some important reasons why you probably should be doing your homework.

1. Grades

There is no single other larger measurement of your high school experience than your GPA. It opens or closes doors and will never change once you have graduated (or not).
There are many more important things in high school than grades, but, in general, nothing has as much impact upon your future.
Doing homework on time leads to better grades.

2. Having done your homework makes the next class timemore meaningful, more understandable and less boring

If you don’t do your homework, you will most often not know what the teacher is doing in class the next day.
Teachers teach to the students who do their homework.
The rest of the students get left behind and lost.
When your teacher assigns homework it is for two purposes:
To reinforce something taught in class through “independent practice” by the students
To expose students to something that will be discussed and reinforced in class.

Doing your homework helps you to identify what you do and do not know.
Doing your homework helps you to identify your needs.
Always ask questions about the homework in class. This serves two important purposes:
It shows your teacher you did your work (grades up).
It helps you to clarify your understanding and ability to do the work you need for a high grade.

If you do your homework late or at the end of the quarter, you won’t be learning, you won’t much improve your test grades, and you will have missed the feedback-cycle of:

3. Doing homework leads to more overall learning

Homework is practice. You don’t get good at something without practice.
Even if it seems easy and irrelevant, it is still practice and practice has enormous benefits:
It creates a habit of just doing your work and helps to break procrastination cycles
It can only help you, just like how one more time in sports increases performance, your brain, memory,and willpower benefit from repetition.
Doing homework (on time) leads to more learning which leads to better grades.
In general, learning is probably one of the least impactful pieces of the high school experience on your life. I can’t remember much of anything that I learned in high school.
However, you will learn a few things in high school that will have a huge impact on your life, that are life-changing.
Doing your homework gives you exposure to learning and enables you to have success in a subject that you may not have known at age 15 was important to you at age 25.

4. Homework tells you what your teacher wants you to learn and / or do, especially on tests

Teachers give homework for some good and some bad reasons. Too bad you’re not the teacher, so you can’t decide.
So, instead of judging your homework, listen to your teacher through the homework and the expectations it sets from your teacher.
Teachers use test questions for homework and homework for test questions. They do it because 1) it’sfair to students, allowing them to practice what will be on the test; and 2) teachers are lazy.

5. Doing your homework helps you getting through bad classes and teachers

Many students blame teachers for their grades. Let’s agree that there are bad teachers and boring, worthless classes and homework. A couple things:
You don’t pay your teacher’s salary. Your teacher gets paid whether you do your homework or not.
Doing your homework punishes your teacher, because the easiest thing to grade for a teacher is nothing. Get revenge on your teacher and do your homework
The less you do your homework, the worse the class will become. And your grades.
Homework helps make class more meaningful, and thus more relevance.
Homework is part of a circular process of classroom success. If you break that cycle by not doing your homework, you lose, because you get a bad grade.