how important do you think school homework is for kids in k and elementary school?

Answer 1

very important

Answer 2

I don't think it is at all important. The vast majority of the time the work is just unnecessary 'busy work' that has little to no educational value whatsoever. The child has been in school all day and they need some time to spend with their family and just relax. Doing homework does not really reinforce the lessons of the day because the child is too tired and disinterested to learn from them. So the child, like an automaton, simply does the work they are required to do so that they can finally be free to finally relax. The adult equivalent would be to spend the entire day at work and then come home and do another three hours worth of work at home. Now while many adults are forced to do this kind of thing to make a living there is a difference. Adults who work this way are merely doing their jobs, they are not trying to learn things. Research has shown that humans can only learn a finite amount of things in one day. After a person has absorbed all they can, further work has little to no educational value.

I can understand the benefit of some homework, but quite honestly I would suggest that about 85% of homework is pointless busy work carried out at a time when the student is tired or otherwise disinterested in learning. It creates unnecessary work for the teachers and the students and does little to improve the standards of education.

Answer 3

I feel that it is very important. The problem that I have with it is the amount that they give the kids or the difficulty level. The reason I have a problem with this is if you come home from work have to cook dinner, do your normal household duties then help three children with hours and hours of homework that they need your complete assistance with. Before you know it, it's 12am and you finally can do something that you need to do for yourself or your work or your homework. Now I do feel it is important for a couple of reasons. One being that it prepares you for the hours upon hours of homework you are going to get in college. I think it is something like 2 hours of homework for every hour you are in class when you are attending college. Yet when you are in college there are all kinds of resources for you to get help with your homework, but when you are in 6th grade and they dump 90 algebra problems on your son (which you don't remember how to do cause it has been 3 months of summer vacation) some english homework and some social studies homework. Then they give your second grader his bunch of homework and your first grader her homework what are you to do. They can't just hop on the internet and seek help for those algebra problems they don't understand or go to a study group in the evening for help with reading. It is all left up to the parents. I believe that the children do need homework but the homework which is being given to the children in elementary school isn't practical for the parents. Certainly if everyone could afford a tutor to sit at there home with thier little children and help one or two of them then sure the homework would be appropriate. I think that they need to give the children homework they can do on there own or homework which will teach them how to find the resources that they need to solve thier homework delemas. I believe that the parents do need to be involved in there childrens homework but if you have more than one child and 3 hours of homework for each of them it becomes a bit out of control.

Answer 4

I really think it depends on the individual child's developmental level. Some are not ready for homework, especially in kindergarten, as each state staggers the age of enrollment, and is pushing for earlier and earlier cutoff dates. Sure, it may reinforce some concepts, but play and family time is equally, if not more important, than forced study. The brain is continually making connections via the corpus callosum, the bundle of millions of fibers connecting the right and left hemispheres, that will grow into the fourth decade. Learning is achieved as much outside the classroom as in, with sensory integration methods building connections via the white matter of the brain. Therefore, children with homework may be overwhelmed at a time where they need to feel success in this environment to continue to be active, curious learners. The grading scale, applied in kindergarten, is much too harsh, and children may learn to feel as failures, before they have even be given a chance to succeed.

Answer 5

You have probably heard your mom or dad say these words. It might seem like all the good stuff has to wait until your homework is done. There's a good reason why adults make a big deal out of homework. Homework helps you learn. And getting a good education can help you build the kind of future life that you want. So homework is important,

Answer 6

It is important to teach them good study habits at an early age. But a lot of it also depends on the support and understanding of the parents--have to be strict but not so strict that the child rebels. Many Asian families push their children to really study hard and the kids end up brainiacs, going to good universities and majoring in some ungodly subject studying something like the "Theory of Quantum Chaos and How it Relates to the Common Sow Bug".

Answer 7

It's really important. It helps reinforce a topic that the student is covering in school, and also helps develop good study skills which will become much more important in later years. If a student doesn't learn to do homework when he is young, he'll probably not do it when he's older.

Answer 8

If it weren't important the teacher wouldn't be giving out home work in the first place. Education is one of the most important parts of a young person's life and should be taken very seriously and every student should take every opportunity to grasp every bit of it whether it be in school or assignments taken home with them to complete as directed by the teacher.

Answer 9

Very, because they have to get in the habit of doing it, so they do better in middle and, high school... where they assign a lot of homework, and you don't want kids to stress out and fail.

Answer 10

Very important! It's where good parents are supposed to help their children and where students basically learn to learn.

Answer 11

I think it be a good practice fer the loads o work they're expected to complete in high school.