Homework Should Be Graded Essay

Have you ever been working on homework and thought, “what am I doing?”. You are not alone. Many high school students feel that homework is an unnecessary part of the learning process, but most of all they feel like it shouldn’t be graded. It seems more like a chore to most, and not something productive that will help them learn. Don’t get me wrong, homework can be great for reinforcement but often it is covering things that students didn’t learn well enough in class or didn’t learn at all! I believe that homework can be better than what millions of teachers send their students home to complete every day. Homework should be a fun and easy part of the learning process that should not be graded due to lack of understanding and teaching. What is homework? From my years of being a student, I have concluded that homework is given with the intention …show more content…
Some students may go as far as to say they hate it, and it might not be for bad reasons. Homework can trigger many emotions in the already confused mind of teenagers. Stress is one thing that I know people complain about. Most of the time it is due to having a lot of work to do. Having additional graded school work outside of school is not something that most students would like to have on their plate along with many personal extracurricular activities. When a student has to do homework that they don’t know how to do it can created a lot of uncertainty. This uncertainty may be in the way the material is being presented, or in their overall ability to learn. Homework can also be very damaging to slow learners. If a student doesn’t understand something in class and has to go home and do more, it can be very discouraging and can punish their grade as a result. Also, if a student typically doesn’t fully grasp material enough for them to do an assignment, it can will detract from their overall willingness to even try to do the homework the way it is meant to be