Homework Is Non-Beneficial For Students

-No Homework- By: Emma Hondorp

Have you ever been assigned homework randomly for no reason? Homework causes many problems at home and at school. A main problem is that teachers don’t know how to properly assign homework. Some people may think that homework is beneficial but I think that homework is non-beneficial. In my opinion homework is non-beneficial for students. One reason is that homework has no effect on students. Another reason is that homework takes away from the family and other outside of school activities. Lastly homework gives no academic benefits/achievements.

Homework is non-beneficial for students because homework has no effect on the students. Evidence to support this is homework is supposed to make better sense of …show more content…
Robert Marzano states that too much homework harms students family time and could be detrimental to students mental health. I agree with Robert Marzano because when I get too much homework at school I tend to stay up late to finish the homework and then in the morning I am so tired I can barely get up and go to school. This proves that homework takes time away from the family and other outside of school activities. More evidence to support that homework takes time away from the family and other outside of school activities is that, “A large majority of kids lack at home resources to help them with their homework.” Says the article ‘Should schools be done with Homework?’. Marzano states that “Homework is harm to economically disadvantaged students who are unintentionally penalized because their environments often make it almost impossible to complete assignments.” I agree with both the article and Robert Marzano because some students have parents that work late or work through the night so they don’t have people to help them with their homework. This proves that homework takes time away from the family and other outside of school