Is homework beneficial or just a waste of time?
March 16, 2021
After online school, most students have not had as of good grades as they would have over a regular school year. Is more homework really helping those students?
There have been many arguments about homework and if it is really helping students be successful and teaching them anything at all. I sent out a survey to the students of West Middle School and out of the 192 responses. 89.1% of people said homework is a stressful thing and not something they want to do after school. In the survey, I asked if there was anything that could make homework more do-able and a response that stood out to me was “No, I think that because we already spend 6+ hours in school and we should not have to take that home with us as well.” I interviewed Kate Barczyk, a 7th-grade student here at West and asked her if she learns anything from homework or if it is just a waste of time. She said, “I think homework is just a waste of time. I could be doing more important things.” I also talk to some of my friends from school about this topic and most of them say homework is useless and does not learn anything from it.
Someday I hope we can lower the amount of homework students have to do every day and the amount of stress that comes with it.
aneresh • Jan 14, 2022 at 12:57 pm
i think homework is soooooooo fun!!!!!! I love it so muchh. i just feel like it gives me a better lerning experyence
Elise • Sep 24, 2021 at 1:08 pm
I think homework is a waste of time because if teachers let us do that work in class we would have more free time. In that free time, we could be doing sports and physical activity that is good for our bodies.
Hailey • Sep 24, 2021 at 1:08 pm
I think that all the things that teachers need to teach us, should be taught in class. The last few hours of the day are for refreshing our minds. We spend 8 hours of the day doing their work but after school, they shouldn’t be able to control us.
yooooooo • May 26, 2021 at 8:13 am
acording to youtubes statistics homework is trash.
Nicholas Rodgers • Apr 29, 2021 at 1:44 pm
While I have found that homework can be a tad excessive, many virtual classes are structured in a way that homework reinforces the material taught in class, which while it can be annoying, doesn’t necessarily mean it doesn’t help the learning process. The way that grades are often balanced using units such as 80-20 or 70-30 helps ensure that homework does not excessively influence your grade if you understand the material.
Henry Phillips • Apr 21, 2021 at 12:45 pm
I think that we should get rid of homework, and any students who do not finish in-class work could finish it the next day of class and catch up, or just make it optional work
Kai • Apr 15, 2021 at 2:15 pm
NO MORE FORTNITE NO MORE HOMEWORK
Parker • Apr 15, 2021 at 2:12 pm
i hate home work either way
Aidan • Apr 15, 2021 at 12:43 pm
Homework can really hard and a lot of the teachers don’t tell you what to do for the work
I think homework can beneficial but it’s mostly not.
Augustus Guoin • Apr 15, 2021 at 8:14 am
Connors right homework isn’t too hard and it might not matter in the real world but your grades will so practicing something that helps your grades is a good thing
Mackenzie Dicken • Apr 14, 2021 at 10:01 am
I agree but also disagree. I understand why teachers give us homework but if you think about it, it doesn’t help the students that much, I mean we already have an hour and 45 minutes of the class so why give us more work.
Just A Regular Shiba Inu • Apr 12, 2021 at 1:15 pm
Well… I think we can all agree that we dislike homework, but on the contrary to that, homework is actually very good for your brain, and it helps your brain to re-remember what you learned in class. The only time when homework is really bad, is when you have 1hour+ of homework, like in highschool, where from what I’ve heard it’s about 6 hours+
Connor Dickison • Mar 25, 2021 at 8:18 am
The homework isn’t really that hard and it only takes about 30 minutes. If it was a regular school year then there would be more work but since it’s just 3 classes a day it’s not that much.
Kate Barczyk • Mar 18, 2021 at 3:33 pm
I agree homework is annoying we have so much of it.
August • Mar 18, 2021 at 8:52 am
Why should we get homework for a class that’s two hours long!
Graham pirrie • Mar 18, 2021 at 8:23 am
EXACTLY why would I need to learn how to play a super hard song on a trumpet for 5 hours straight I COULD BE BUILDING LEGOS
Jacob Lang • Mar 16, 2021 at 1:06 pm
I don’t think homework is that important half the things we learn in class we don’t use in the real world so why do we have to practice it