Daily Life

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.