Homework, who needs homework? No one, that’s who. Teachers do not need to spend endless hours grading and students do not need to bend over backwards to complete a single homework assignment. What is the point? Does homework actually help? Homework is just pointless and busy work for students and educators should reconsider their want to assign homework. Homework is not beneficial to students because homework does not enhance their ability to learn and the work negatively affects their mental and physical health.
Homework does not help students academically. Firstmost, assigning homework has no direct correlation to higher tests score and understanding of the material; homework could be considered busy work. According to Alfie Kohn, in his …show more content…
Firstmost, Anne-Sophie Kim, a freshman in the Humanities Scholars Program at Carnegie Mellon University and Assistants Layout Manager at The Tartan, explains in her article “Lack of Sleep Hurts Student Health”, that lack of sleep affects a student’s alertness, reasoning, concentration, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are key in learning and having a successful school day. If kids do not have the basic skills they need to stay awake, then why do we expect them to learn. Plus, teachers do not assign homework one night a week they assign every single , so it builds up. Kurt Kumler, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, states, “A lack of sleep gives us a harder time remembering things we learned the day before, leaving us not well equipped to solve complicated problems” (qtd. in Kim). This often leads to struggle with memorization, sleep loss damages the area of brain that specializes in memorization. If students struggle with remembering things they learned the day before, how can they improve the methods and skills they learned the day before.Documented by WebMD, “ Chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders increase the risk of serious health ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and diabetes, among other issues” (qtd. In Kim). All of these physical illness can cause death. School work should not be hard enough to cause students death in the long term. Students need to care for their bodies instead of worrying about having to finish all their school work. Teachers always say the importance goes yourself, school, sports, so why do they consider their work more important than what they’re preaching. In Kims article she also talks about how lack of sleep leads to amounts of stress that are so unhealthy and lead to a nervous breakdown. Kids having mental breakdowns is not healthy at the age of fourteen to eighteen. That
Homework does not help students academically. Firstmost, assigning homework has no direct correlation to higher tests score and understanding of the material; homework could be considered busy work. According to Alfie Kohn, in his …show more content…
Firstmost, Anne-Sophie Kim, a freshman in the Humanities Scholars Program at Carnegie Mellon University and Assistants Layout Manager at The Tartan, explains in her article “Lack of Sleep Hurts Student Health”, that lack of sleep affects a student’s alertness, reasoning, concentration, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are key in learning and having a successful school day. If kids do not have the basic skills they need to stay awake, then why do we expect them to learn. Plus, teachers do not assign homework one night a week they assign every single , so it builds up. Kurt Kumler, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, states, “A lack of sleep gives us a harder time remembering things we learned the day before, leaving us not well equipped to solve complicated problems” (qtd. in Kim). This often leads to struggle with memorization, sleep loss damages the area of brain that specializes in memorization. If students struggle with remembering things they learned the day before, how can they improve the methods and skills they learned the day before.Documented by WebMD, “ Chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders increase the risk of serious health ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and diabetes, among other issues” (qtd. In Kim). All of these physical illness can cause death. School work should not be hard enough to cause students death in the long term. Students need to care for their bodies instead of worrying about having to finish all their school work. Teachers always say the importance goes yourself, school, sports, so why do they consider their work more important than what they’re preaching. In Kims article she also talks about how lack of sleep leads to amounts of stress that are so unhealthy and lead to a nervous breakdown. Kids having mental breakdowns is not healthy at the age of fourteen to eighteen. That