Why Should Homework Be Banned Persuasive Essay

You slowly trample into a classroom, and you are tired, too tired to be there, too tired to look there, too tired to listen there and too tired to work there. You get cold, and then your eyelids drop, shut together, all done, checked out and hit the hay. You get your name called, you wake up and then your life's over, detention time for you, there goes that hot date you had with the boy of your dreams tonight. You ask the teacher why she says because you fell asleep. You think, “why exactly did you fall asleep?”, oh ya, it is because you got no sleep last night! You are angry because you didn’t get any sleep last night. Why didn’t you get any sleep last night? You had too much homework! All schools should discontinue homework because it takes away from family time, it could decrease sleep and it might not improve your knowledge as much as you think it does. Yes, homework can be very helpful but, half of the time it does nothing to help you. Do you think you should have homework assigned in your classes?

My first reason why homework should be discontinued in …show more content…
Yes, first the family time, and now your own personal sleep! Now, this is just a big red sign, that school boards should reconsider, the homework policy. In the article, “Homework, sleep and the human brain”, it says that “A lot of kids have a hard time falling asleep with homework on their minds.”. This makes a lot of sense, on why students aren’t getting enough sleep and falling asleep in class so, if teachers don’t want students to fall asleep in class then just don’t assign homework, they are the ones in charge of your work aren't they? This kinda defeats the purpose of all of those heath talks because if you want to even start being healthy, school-aged kids need 9 to 11 hours of sleep each and every night to function properly the next day. Homework on your mind isn’t going to