Why should kids have homework? The answer to that question is that they shouldn't. Can we rework this intro? I feel like it's a bland way to jump into a hotly debated topic. A recent survey of “1,000 K-12 teachers found, among other things, that high school teachers on average assign about 3.5 hours of homework each week. For high school students who typically have five classes with different teachers, that could mean as much as 17.5 hours each week. By comparison, the survey found middle school teachers assign about 3.2 hours of homework each week and kindergarten through fifth grade teachers assign about 2.9 hours each week.” -Bidwell, Allie (“Students Spend More Time on Homework but Teachers Say It's Worth It”, US news and world report, 14,Feb,2014 (-- removed HTML --) ). That is a lot of time spent on homework for any age.
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In this generation many kids are not social because they are always on their phones talking to their friends instead of hanging out or speaking face to face. One thing that is causing that is homework. It causes kids to be unsocial because by the time students are finished with their homework it is too late to hang out. So they just go on their phones and talk with their friends making them unsocial. Also spending time with family is very important too. When kids have mounds and mounds of homework then it doesn't give any time to spend with family. Also Harris Cooper a writer saying that homework is good for kids, states in her article “...and because no homework would allow families to eat together and read together, and children to play outside and have an early bedtime”-Cooper, Harris “Yes, teachers should give homework – the benefits are many” -The News and Observer- (02,Sept,2016) (-- removed HTML --) . And all of that stuff is more important than doing homework. If doing homework it would not make time for doing all of
In this generation many kids are not social because they are always on their phones talking to their friends instead of hanging out or speaking face to face. One thing that is causing that is homework. It causes kids to be unsocial because by the time students are finished with their homework it is too late to hang out. So they just go on their phones and talk with their friends making them unsocial. Also spending time with family is very important too. When kids have mounds and mounds of homework then it doesn't give any time to spend with family. Also Harris Cooper a writer saying that homework is good for kids, states in her article “...and because no homework would allow families to eat together and read together, and children to play outside and have an early bedtime”-Cooper, Harris “Yes, teachers should give homework – the benefits are many” -The News and Observer- (02,Sept,2016) (-- removed HTML --) . And all of that stuff is more important than doing homework. If doing homework it would not make time for doing all of