Home work should be abolished in schools. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Home work need to be abolished in school to allow a child develop the inner capabilities. All schools specially which are not boarding have a limited time available with the children and hence are not able to concentrate separately with every child's abilities and develop them. That only can be done at home. An example, a child is good in Lawn tennis say fro the age of 6 Yrs and hence parents start giving the child coaching and making him a better player. school can not make the child do that daily in their time. This has to be done once the child returns from school. But if the child returns with the same work which he/she has done in school, then where is the time to do other things!
Hence a time has been deputed for school and they must use all the time for the school activities including studies.
No homework will develop a child better.

Answer 2

Homework should not be abolished - but the teachers council in each school must determine collectively as to what level of homework is sufficient and adequate for each grade level - including all the subjects that the children have to work on.

Perhaps a discussion should take in to acccount as to how a child's time is divided or utilized:

Time to prepare to attend school, + travel time
Class room instrcution time, lunch break or snack time, play or exercise periods
Travel time to get back home
Rest period, time to run household errands or attend to other personal instructions or activites
Time for meals
Prepare for study & do homework, prepare to go to sleep
Sleep time - minimum 7 to 8 hours daily.

There should be little or no homework for the week-end ( specially if it's a one day week-end ). This is the time to alloacate towards personal growth and community related activities. There should be no home work allocated for the holidays - only some special projects that could utilize the skills learned in all the different subjects. Eliminate any stereotype homework projects. Let the students come up with some challenging projects at different levels - personal, community or reflective of municipal, provincial or national concerns.

Hopefully couple of following webpages should assist you in realizing where the rest of the world is going:

http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/terri/hw.html
http://www.gatesheadgrid.org/eic/6G&T%20Effect%20Hmwork.pdf

Answer 3

Why on the earth you need to give homework to children (upto 10 yrs. age)? School should be making more sense of those 5-6 hrs while child stays in the school. Homeworks, school-uniforms,examinations,rote-learning (list is long) are the example of some bad practices we are following.

The way our mainstream schools teach children, for me, its a matter of surprise that how children get to learn things. Not learning things by children is the most acceptable proposition for me, reckoning the current widespread pedagogical practices and the nature of child-teacher relationship. There are several questions to be asked or the issues to be debated giving homework or the nature of the homework being one of them.

The assumption that it would is based on a fundamental set of misconceptions about how learning happens. When teachers talk about "reinforcing" what kids are taught in school by giving homework, they're borrowing from an outdated view of learning called behaviourism that's more concerned about producing behaviours than about enhancing understanding. Moreover, there's a lot of research to show that more time on a task is not necessarily associated with better proficiency at that task.

Well, the good stuff would be, first, chosen by the students (of 10+ yrs.age) so that the kids have some role in a democratic classroom community of deciding what is so vital that it ought to spill over to the after-school hours. Second, it might simply involve free-choice reading rather than writing those godawful book reports that could destroy anyone's love of books. Third, it might take the form of activities that logically ought to be done at home, like replicating a science experiment in one's own kitchen, or interviewing one's parents about family history, rather than the kind of stuff that could be and should be done at school. I guess my overall point is not, let's get rid of homework altogether, but that we should change the default state. Right now, the default is to make kids do school work at home almost every day, regardless of whether it's necessary. If the burden of proof, so to speak, was on educators to say that a given assignment is so useful that we're going to presume to interrupt family time to ask you to do it, that's a very different situation.

Answer 4

I wouldn't say it needs to be abolished, but cut back. My 3rd grader had problems with this issue. I had a meeting with principal and they got things straightened out cause now he only has about half the homework was having.

Answer 5

Homework should be substantially increased in schools. And kids who dont do it should be failed and held back. I've seen too many kids who have HS diplomas and cant read or do the simplest calculations. Pathetic!

Answer 6

I agree, If the teachers shut their Yaps, You could get work done while at School.

Answer 7

not abolished but to be reduced!!

Answer 8

I disagree.