Should kids really have homework?

I absolutely agree with you. When the kids are younger and they have homework it is like torture to them. They ahve just spent the whole day in school only to come home and have to do more schoolwork! It is crazy. then when they get older like in high school, many of the kids are involved in sports and work. They hardly have time to sleep once the get home from work and then get the homework done.

I don't agree with homework either. Well at least not as much as they are getting. I remember when I was a kid I would have mabey a page a night. They come home with so much homework now that they are doing it for 3-4 hrs a night. It is insane I don't get to see my children much because of it. I think schools need to rethink their homework policies. Have a great day all!

Yes! Learning is a full time job. Your kids don't stop learning when they come home and parents should be involved in their learning process (I think I actually learnt as much or more when my kids brought homework home than when I was at school!) There is a world of difference between the kind of learning that kids do in class and the kind they do on their own at home. It's often a chance for them to turn around and be the teachers (without them realising it) because they have to explain the concepts and information they have learned to us dumb parents! Having to tech something is one of the best ways of learning I know.

The difference is that children are learning, and in order to learn, they need to repeat exercises, practice, and make it a part of their daily lives, not just work on it for 6 hours and then forget about it the rest of the time. Adults generally talk about 'don't bring your work home with you' in a different sense. It is usually referring to letting stress and problems at work cause you stress at home and allowing it to interfere with personal relationships. Adults generally do not need to bring their work home with them in order to be successful at their jobs. Children, in contrast, generally do. Have you ever attended college? Do you think the courses you took would have been as effective without the exercises and projects you completed on your own? I doubt it. Doing work on your own reinforces the lessons you learned in class and helps teach practical application. Education these days is seriously lacking, and children are allowed to be lazy and are not held accountable for their actions or expected to handle any responsibility. That does not prepare them for the real world. Homework does. Do not underestimate the value of homework. That said, I do feel sometimes there is too much homework. It shouldn't take up a majority of the day after school. I think about an hour is plenty and any more is excessive and fosters a resentment for school and responsibility.

Hmmm...those are some pretty good points. I never really put that much thought into it before. My kids are only in the 1st and 2nd grades, so they don't usually have very much homework yet. When it comes to homework in general though, there are some big differences that I notice between the experience of children of today and my own. 1. When I was in elementary school, I never had homework, everything was done and turned in during school hours. My kids on the other hand, do have homework on occasion. (That is not to say every elementary school worked that way back when I was a kid, but mine did) 2. Even during throughout my middle school and high school experience, with the exception of multi page reports which a student would obviously have to spend some time outside of class working on, my teachers never specifically assigned "homework". I did have homework sometimes during those years, but it was only when I was unable to finish assignments during the time allotted for them in class. And all my teachers always gave us some class time to work on assignments. (Again, I am not saying that all schools were like that back then because I don't know, but mine was)

i think you are right they are tired from school and still when they arrive home, they will just eat dinner and do the homework again. but this kind of activity can also help our child to be more responsible to the things they assigned to them. i guess we have to give them courage for all the activities they have.

I never had a problem with the amount of homework my kids had, I don't see anything wrong with kids learning to have responsibilities, and homework is part of that. Now I'm not saying they should have 3 chapters in every class they are taking. But, we all know that graduating high school is important, and it's also important these days to have a college education, and they will have plenty of homework in college. I think that would be a shock to the kids, if they never had homework and then go to college and all of a sudden they do have 2 chapters in 5 classes to read and do work in. I think the amount of homework should be age appropriate, but I don't think it should be done away with.

I agree that children should have some homework, but I disagree to give them heavy homework. Here I think the children have many homework and they hardly have spare time for their own interests. I remember when I was a pupil in the primary school. My teacher told us that it was suitable to give pupils homework to finish within an hour. I love China

Well I didn't like homework when I was little ether, but I guess its necessary for kids to have homework so they will be prepared for the next test and so there little minds can remember the things they learn in school, but I bet a lot of kids would love to give you a high five right now lol.

I do not agree with the habit of kids bringing their work to home. In schools the teachers should find time to do the kids' studies there itself. No kid should be allowed to do homeworks. After about 6 hours sitting in class, they will be tired and also not interested to do homework. They will be interested in playing after coming from school. Also the homeworks really bothers the parents. They have to sit with the child and help him in doing the homeworks. The kids will also be irritated and lose interest in studying. so my opinion is that kids should not be given homeworks.

actually i do agree with u completely...although i'm still single and not married yet to experience such a thing with my kids, beside, i just graduated from the university...but i do experience such hateful situation with my youngest brother who goes to school from 8 am and back around 4.30 everyday..he takes his late lunch and the fights start between me and him or between mom and him as he doesn't want to do the homework and prefers to play outside with his friends...he is actually has the right to feel stressed... it is such stressful situation as i get so angry and tired from classes and get no mood to face his naughtiness and refusal to do the homework...i usually end up forcing him to stay up late with me to fnish up.. it so stressful for kids to face stressfulness and depression in a very young age!! Smiley,

I agree with you and that's my mom thought as well....... sometime homework doesn't make sense....like they are out of the subject..

I agree that it seems like the amount of homework I kids come home with seems a bit much. It kills me that they get 3 months out of school for the summer without so much as weekly reminder work, but the teachers hate to send them home for 16 hours without giving them homework.

in our country now the children no longer to have lot of homework, bu two years ago it`s same , i think you are ringht , the childern need some time to do theirs things and study any tings to let them adults.

Honestly homework is really to be done at home together with our parents or guardian. speaking of family time, we can have our family time while doing the homework for the meantime until its finished and understand. thats why its called home work, we have to help and guide them to understand their home work.

i have recently heard that a child in grade school should have as much homework as the grade they are in school - ie grade 1 10 min, etc- middle school an hour and highschool 2 hours. as for my kids, i let them go out during the nice weather after school and they do their homework after supper. they usually dont have much (although my daughter in high school has more than my 11 year old - she gets most done in class).

yes i do think kids should be given home work but not too much just to keep them busy for atleast an hour after school.

I think a little homework is ok.. But not too much.. It should be possible to do their work at school.. Have a nice day..

I think it is important for children to get homework. It's important for them to be able to manage their time effectively. Also, the amount that gets tested in the end of year exams these days is rediculous, and the teachers need to set more work so that they know the areas that they need to work on with the class. I don't think primary school children should get much homework; maybe 10 maths questions and 10 spellings to learn every week. I am in sixth form college at the moment, and we have to do 5 hours per week per subject of additional work. I am doing 3 subjects, so that means that I have to do 15 hours per week additional study to the 13.5 hours I spend in college each week.

yes they should have homework for practise..