Can anyone give some reasons why teachers should give less homework?

Answer 1

1. Children shouldn't be prepared for the real world.
2. We want to maintain the gap in standardized test scores between the US and the rest of the world.
3. Advertisement revenue will go down on MTV and Nickelodeon.
4. Teachers will have more free time.
5. Taco Bell can't find enough employees, so the job pool will get larger with so many kids being ineligible for college.
6. Conservation (saves paper, and electricity for lights)
7. American kids are overweight so less homework means more time for exercising.

Answer 2

Though there are times in which HW is necessary, science projects for example, there are many more things in life that are just as important. Playing sports, dance, learning a musical instruments, engaging in active play... these are all things that are relevant in making a child more well rounded. They actually teach skills such as strategizing, problem solving, work ethic, analyzing and many more essential things. It is a shame that most principals insist on a certain amount of daily HW. A child is entitled to quality of life. How much fun is it to go to school until 2:00. Get home and settled by 3:00. Do HW until 5:00. Eat dinner, bathe, get ready for bed. Not all students finish their work within an hour. This is entirely frustrating for the student and family. The truth is most teachers do not count even HW anyway because you never really know who did it, the parent or the child. There could easily be a happy medium, i.e. HW only allowed on Mondays and Wed. but turned in on Wed. and Fri. In other words, allow 2 days to complete the assignment.

Answer 3

Homework isn't the only thing in a child's life. They should have a little homework to make sure they know what they are doing, but repeating the same problems over and over again is just busy work that is preventing them from learning real life situations. They need to be exposed to interesting topics by field trips and activities, not by doing homework from a book. If kids have fun, the will retain the information better than if they were to associate it with the negatives of sitting home alone doing homework for hours. Homework does not help, i would prefer a daily quiz to make sure I know the material from the previous day instead of doing homework everynight.

Answer 4

It is non productive. When schooling first started, there was at least one person at home to help with the academic. Now both parents work, and kids are struggling alone.

Teachers are not paid (now days) to grade homework. So it is returned graded, long after the class is through studying that subject.
Reading assignments might be the exception

Answer 5

it violates our constitutional right of freedom, l,iberty, and pursuit of happiness. Do we really want to do homeowrk on the weekends/holidays/week nights when we SHOULD be spending time with our families? There's a website about why homework is a bad thing, and here it is!!
http://www.webspawner.com/users/nohomework/parentalinjunct.html

Answer 6

i think instead of giving kids bulk, give them substance. not mounds of the same crap over and over, but a few really well thought out problems in math or questions that forces them to do research. you teach not only question and answer, but how they got to that solution.

Answer 7

Depending on what grade youre in, it would allow more time for school activites (football, basketball, stuco, etc.) and for those who work after school

Answer 8

so they dont have to waste time correcting it