Why do kids have homework everyday?

Answer 1

homework = practice

The school day just isn't long enough for you to master everything a teacher gives you. (not that I'm encouraging the day to be longer), so homework lets you practice the skill taught until you get it.

Also, homework forces you to try a skill on your own. This shows your teacher if you understand it or not, which tells us if we need to reteach it.

Finally, homework teaches you responsibility. . .which is important to learn before students become adults. The consequences are so much less in school than in life.
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Answer 2

Because most of the classroom time is spent teaching you how to do it. There isn't enough time for you to do it and prove you understood it by doing it. I will admit there are teachers out there who require way too much homework. They seem to forget these kids have other teachers who need work done as well. I noticed with my children they seemed to have had more homework than I did, and they learned less. Now go figure that one. My granddaughter is in 3rd grade, she is doing almost 4th grade work, she comes home right after school, does her homework in an hour and then has computer time before dinner. She never has homework on weekends. Sometimes I think it might be the children and what they are or aren't doing in school.

Answer 3

In my class they have homework to practice the skills they've been learning during class time (Spanish). 50 minutes a day, 5 days a week just isn't enough. They need some type of practice and reinforcement.

However, I try to keep the assignments short, meaningful, and simple--I want my students to DO the homework, not give up on it because it's too hard. Usually homework is completion grade; did they make the effort to do it? Then we go over it in class so that they can correct their mistakes.

BTW, I only give homework during the week--to me, there's no point to homework over the weekend, so I slave drive them Monday through Thursday nights, then let them have the weekend off from "tarea".

Answer 4

my 4 th grade daughter has at least 2 hours of homework everyday. It is ridiculous, to spend all day at school and have a lot more to do when she gets home. After school and evenings should be spent together as a family not being stressed out doing more school work.

Answer 5

I'll add another question to go with yours - Why do even the kids just starting school have homework everyday and they want us to do it on Saturday and Sunday too? We read 3 books (pamphlets), do vocab words, a family activity sheet, and usually something else like writing a sentence every day and I'm supposed to make him do it on the weekend too? Hey, I don't have to work, he doesn't have to do homework.

Answer 6

i am 43 hated school all my life. i think homework is as a result of the teacher not being able to do the job in the amount of class time . i think this is a failure on the part of the school . imagine if factory workers had to take home there work .
home work is bad it interfears with socail development . social development is much more important . i would prefer to see children taught how to have fun with out breaking the law .

Answer 7

In order to learn something we have to train our minds to keep the information we learned in classes by doing practice on them outside of classes. How do you think you learned from wrong to right- at least most of us made the miskates (wronged ourselves) then learned the right (good) way.
Kids who have homework are more likely to remember what was taught in class recently than the others who don't have/do homework.

Answer 8

To encourage the practice of skills that were learned in that day? That way, it's not just in the short term memory.

Answer 9

They need it! Our public schools are pathetic, kids learn nothing in class.

Glad I went to a semi-private school!

Answer 10

Because teachers are sad *** gits who cant be bothered to teach us properly in the first place, so give us homework to 'help us learn'. Lazy gits.