Homework, a Help or Hindrance?

[RussianFed55]

This thread is living proof of the loss of work ethic in society.

[Riku3220]

This thread is living proof of the loss of work ethic in society.

 

 

 

Why should people who get the material have to suffer from homework?

[RussianFed55]

This thread is living proof of the loss of work ethic in society.

 

 

 

Why should people who get the material have to suffer from homework?

 

 

 

Practice. Do you honestly believe kids will do homework if it isn't mandatory? I had a math class where homework was given but never graded, I did NONE of it, and I failed because of it. You don't do what you don't have to, that is the mantra of this soceity it would appear now-a-days.

[Zierro]

Homework teaches us that we have to do crap in life that we really don't wanna do.

[Ouchy]

I have to do Homework. If I don't, I could have to resit the whole entire year again next year :roll:

 

Homework doesn't really bother me at all, it helps to go over new things, and remember stuff we learned. I just hate Graphics Home Work. Colouring in things, fun! :thumbup:

[eggzs]

I get homework, did about 1/4 of it for the whole year. Still managed to get straight A's and top 10 class rankings. But homework is still essential.

[Ouchy]

I get homework, did about 1/4 of it for the whole year. Still managed to get straight A's and top 10 class rankings. But homework is still essential.

 

 

 

Wow. What school do you go to?

[Tbfgraphx14]

I'm all for homework, but I don't like homework that is pointless and won't teach me anything, such as writing page long journals on stories in the newspaper when I could just read them, that and book reports. That is the homework that I bs.

[eggzs]

I get homework, did about 1/4 of it for the whole year. Still managed to get straight A's and top 10 class rankings. But homework is still essential.

 

 

 

Wow. What school do you go to?

 

 

 

AGS, just study about a month before exams as most homework is text book exercises that I will eventually do for exam prep.

[Shinjula]

If it wasn't strict, then these people would just ignore it and they'd still be power-tripping like usual.

 

Lol, you think *theyre* power tripping???

[Serpent Eye]

I didn't mind homework, actually.

 

 

 

It was pretty cool to actually focus at home, and learn something useful outside of the classroom.

 

 

 

(Although I am glad that I'm done with school and homework both now.)

[SirHartlar]

I was talking to my friends about work outside of the school. It's funny, one or two years ago homework was the bane of your life and some teachers even set pieces that would last an hour (!). I'm in Year 11 now, and I'm complaining about the amount of coursework I get. I don't even think twice about doing a halfhour homework, why should I when I have to start thinking about that 10 hour coursework due for next week? People love complaining, that is what it boils down to. ;)

[ElkNight]

I don't like homework, I usually do it the last minute and I never really try that hard on it. :lol:

 

I hate homework so much.

[AndyPandy]

They should set homework for the people who need it.

 

 

 

If you're not very clever, then you need the work to help you learn more, same as if you mess around constantly. If, though, you are clever, and get things done in lessons, and understand the work, then why should you need to 'learn' at home, what youhave already learnt that day.

 

 

 

This way, there is an incentive for doing good in classes, so it won't interupt your free time.

[RichieMcD]

Depends on the subject. Subjects like English where a lot of the work is creative writing or writing essays / novels would take up to much school time to be done in school. Science subjects need homework otherwise all class time dedicated to experiments wouldn't be available.

 

 

 

Other subjects like Geography, languages, History etc I think don't need written homework but instead just need to be studied at your own discretion.

[l0l0lpur32]

The time in lesson alone isn't really enough to understand things properly, also it's easy for people to just coast along doing no work of their own in lessons, so some form of independent study is needed. And 14 year old nerds who if they could, would drop out of school and play RS/WOW all day won't do it unless it's mandatory - that's why homework is needed.

[Boris5000]

My teachers actually don't care if I do my homework or not, But I end up doing it for my own benefit...

[Skull]

It should be assigned yes, but it shouldn't have nearly as large of an affect on an overall grade as it does now. I got a 75 in one of my classes by not doing any homework at all, and the lowest grade I got on anything else was something like a 93.

 

 

 

Edit:

 

My thoughts:

 

 

 

- Homerwork is definently a hindrance. It affects your grades too much. If I can ace every exam, and end up with a 75% in the class because I didn't do any homework, there is something wrong.

 

 

 

- I believe there should be an extra period at the end of the school day (as in extend school) where kids can do homework and get actual help if they need it.

 

 

 

- Assigning heaps of the same kind of problem will not help you learn, homework problems should at least vary in topic.

 

Exactly what I think. I didn't read this before I posted though.

[RSBDavid]

I think it is not neccesary. It makes my grade worse. I go to school at 7 AM, train for sports after until 6 PM, work part time till 10:30 PM, then go to bed at usually midnight or 1 AM because of homework.

 

 

 

I could go on about the education system, but it would take hours of typing.

[ElkNight]

I just started writing my paper now :thumbsup: almost at midnight, the day before. Luckily all I need is a rough draft. I HATE homework.

[Ginger_Warrior]

Practice. Do you honestly believe kids will do homework if it isn't mandatory? I had a math class where homework was given but never graded, I did NONE of it, and I failed because of it. You don't do what you don't have to, that is the mantra of this soceity it would appear now-a-days.

 

Work ethics are dead?

 

 

 

You are talking about the same kids who grow up, go to university and attend non-mandatory lectures aren't you?

 

 

 

Just checking.

 

 

 

There's far too much pressure on children to perform well in school these days, and not enough emphasis on letting them just be kids and explore the world for themselves. They receive test after test after test, with homework on top of the revision. We don't let young kids go out of 100 yards from our front doors because the media's scared us into thinking there's some pervert waiting for them. We force them through this academic factory, and then get surprised after they get out because they've no idea how to deal with the world around them (basic tasks like cooking, socialising, cleaning, looking after health). What's wrong with making them work harder at school, and when they get home, just letting them play out, watch TV or whatever?

[Serpent Eye]

The only time I recall being really annoyed by homework was for my Economics class, my senior year of high school.

 

 

 

We had to create a business plan over the course of the class. This involved creating a business of our choice, from the ground up. I chose to start an eatery/coffee house. We had to literally design and figure out everything. The floor-plans, costs of counters, chairs, tables, equipment, paying staff, electric and utilities bills, etc.

 

 

 

I... didn't do it :D And failed the class (haha.) Luckily, the second time around, I had Econ with another teacher, who didn't make us do a business plan. Passed, graduated on time, ftw.

 

 

 

Other than this, most of my experience with homework was pleasant. Senior year was the craziest time, just because they threw on all the hard classes like Econ and Family Health and stuff, which all involved huge, epic projects. English 4 was the death of me, because my school had Senior Projects... ugh....

 

 

 

Oh well.

 

 

 

Learning = fun. At school, or outside of school, there's always time to learn.

[sohkmj1]

Homework is a help in the long run but a hindrance when you get it.

 

:?

 

I had a year where the teacher gave us non graded homework throughout the year. Needless to say, I flunked.

 

Homework really helps. It's revison if you don't want to do it. Not that I enjoy it or anything but hey, no pain no gain.

 

 

 

I'm really to start sounding like some sort of mature adult now... Not good.

[Furah]

Homework is definately a hinderance, if you can't give me enough work between 9am and 3:30pm, then you need to reorginise your work plan. Also some of the teaching methods fail, it caters for those who remember by writing things down, where people like me who remember by doing something struggle with classes more. Which would surprise me because of the fact that I passed maths and science for 3 years in highschool without even trying, and I was placed very high, gaining many distinctions in Math competitions throughout my schooling career, yet I never find a use for any of it outside school, apart from making my a little too proud about my acadmics. In all honesty I have had to stop doing sports because of homework, and my friend had to do the same assignment 5 times because his teacher hates him due to his religion. He can't even complain to the Dean as all the staff are very good friends (it was a 5000 word assignment each time too.)

 

 

 

All homework has done for me and my friends is pretty much take as much of our youth as possible, I generally got it all done all last minute so I could have a life, and which is why I am not doing years 11 and 12 as I will be literally wasting 2 years on them.

[BlueLancer]

Again I couldn't agree more with Ginger_Warrior, how is it a surprise a lot of college kids eventually end up in massive debts, don't even know how to file the simplest bureucratic forms, etc.. When they went through their entire lives with somebody else telling them what to do?

 

 

 

For heavens sake, maybe I'm biased because I loathed homework and barely ever finished up on any of it, but let kids have some creative time too. They're not robots. A kid is built to do different activities, move around & use his/her brains. 6-8 hours of school every day does that just fine. Any homework that takes more than about 15 minutes to finish can be mental torture for active children.

 

 

 

It has nothing to do with work ethics. The workload can be gradually increased once the kids grow older. It's absolutely insane to keep a kid confined to a desk after a long day of school to do more tedious, repetitive excercises for multiple hours. The small minority who are silent & obedient may go along with it for a while. You can destroy kid's minds from the inside who are active by nature & are forced to do even more schoolwork after they get home.

 

 

 

Not even some adults have the kind of workload a lot of kids these days have. Nobody I know of personally except a teacher, even bring any sort of work home or are obliged to be reachable after business hours. Why is a child forced to do so every day for over 10 years of his/her life?