The
Uselessness of Homework
Homework
is a Sisyphean task that almost every teacher assigns after a class period. It supposedly
“refreshes” our mind on what we did in class that day so we don’t forget it for
our next class period. But really all homework does is take or social and
physical life from us. For example many kids would rather be playing with there
friends hanging out watching a movie or playing a game. Also Jeremy loves to
work out and I bet he would rather be working on his physical appearance than
his homework that is due the next day for math. If we didn’t have homework,
people like Jeremy would be more physically fit. But when I try to tell my
parents this concept all they say is “kids like you would just be on the
computer all day ruining their minds with some worthless video game.” To that I say
this is true but at least they would be spending time with their friends doing
what we like to do.
Another
example would be me, every Wednesday I go to my church and am in a class that
helps me to be a better Christian. Every other Wednesday there is something
called youth group at my church, were we have diner and play games for an hour
and a half. It is really fun and going to youth group totally depends on the amount
of homework I have. If I can go home after and still have enough time to do my
homework and go to bed on time.
Half
the kids here don’t even do their homework. Either they save it for the bus
ride to school, do it the period before, or even worse copy from fellow classmates.
I am not going to point any fingers are. Those people know who they are.
I
was interested to see what the internet had to say about homework. I searched
the work “homework” into Google and 9 out of the 10 first things it came up
with was some form of the same question, “How can I get kids to do their
homework?” Interested by this topic I went and looked at the images and over
half of them show kids that looking frustrated with a pile of paper on their
desk. So I went even further and saw there is even a book that is titled “What
to do if you’re Child Hates School.” By Antonia Chitty. If kids aren’t
going to do their homework to the point where your child hates school because
of it, why do teachers assign it in the first place?
So
in conclusion to let kids be physical, socially, and spiritually healthy we
need to stop the homework or it is going to go too far.
