Should We Have Homework Really Important?

Why do we have homework? This is a common question for students to ask and for teachers to hear. There are many sides of this argument some say that we should have homework every night while some say its bad for you. Some just take the middle ground in between. This article will answer this question to see if homework is really needed or if it’s just a waste of time. So, is homework really important? Most teachers say that homework is important to reinforce skills that the students have learned and it helps them remember it. This is true in most cases. If teachers give out too much homework then students can become overwhelmed and burned out and get exhausted and don’t tend to remember it. Sometimes this even makes them forget certain things. Now here is a quote from a dad’s point of view where his daughter didn’t have homework for a year and he said “My Daughter wouldn’t …show more content…
Well someone would think that it wouldn’t be that much and probably like the equation I found while researching like how first graders should get around 10 minutes of homework a night, but the actual amount recorded in a study with around 1,100 kids showed surprisingly different results. “The researchers found that first and second graders received 28 and 29 minutes of homework per night. This is a crazy amount according to the previous research where they said that the equation for how much homework a night should be “Total Homework = Grade Level x Ten Minutes”, but in this scenario it is double and almost triple for some and remember this isn't any special school it is an average school for average children. Now let's see how some great high school students feel for about an hour and thirty minutes to two hours of homework. When interviewed “more than 70 percent of students said they were “often or always stressed over schoolwork,” with 56 percent listing homework as their primary