I am honestly on the fence with this but eventually one side won me over. Why? I found that homework is actually a tool to build responsbility, which is why I was on the fence, and that is also my opinion. Looking toward the future of big, high-paying jobs maybe in advertising, agricultural, or technological industries there will possibly be a lot of paperwork and projects due on specific dates. Looking at this from a distance, it seems homework depends on the student 20-30 years later. I got to thinking this way because of this article:

Peake, Maggie. "Extroverts vs. introverts." Skipping Stones Apr.-June 2014: 8. General OneFile. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

Honestly, homework is a pain to do, but it is needed to learn. Homework is a vital tool that is looked at like it's a waste of someone’s time. I might be sounding like a hypocrite but I know this is true. On this college website that I found named education.cu-portland.edu,it states that homework helps you with four traits. The four traits are responsibility, time-management, perseverance, and self-esteem. I agree with the first two, but the last two are little out there but i'm not in college so yeah. If you do your homework, you also will re-learn what you learned in class during school. Also, you can use the homework to study for test in a subject instead of looking off your notes. You can look at problems that might be on the upcoming test that you need to study forhjfgfgv. With the time management skill, while doing homework, you can plan out your day better so that it will go well as planned. A organised schedule is better than a mess and this skill will help you a lot in the future. My final verdict is that homework is needed and should not be taken away from the students of schools. I, JudgeZach, rest my case of Homework.

I believe that homework is needed. There are a lot of students out there that have work or extracircular activities and after those activities they are probably going to be tired, but they have to take the responsibility to do their homework. Homework gives students the responsibility to finish it. Homework helps students figure out the work on their own. In class, there is probably only one person answering questions or the teacher is doing most of the work, but at home the student would have to do the work on their own. If they need help with it, they could ask a parent or friends or the teacher, but they shouldn't rely on other people to do their work. The article I read had a good point. The article, "Does Homework Work?" stated that, "Homework should serve to consolidate skills and develop creativity in students by having them apply the concepts of what was previously learned during the day." Homework is much needed for students that need help or students that like extra practice. I like doing extra practice because if I didn't get it before, I could practice and try to understand it. There is some days that I don't like having homework because I might be busy that day, but it's a part of life to have to do homework, go to work, and go to school. I think that homework is needed in schools to help students better understand the lesson that is being taught in school.

I can honestly say i don’t like having homework. But lets be real here, if our teachers didn’t assign us homework some of us students wouldn’t know what the teachers have been teaching for the last couple of weeks. Homework may be a hassle in our minds but in the long run it really does help us. It helps refresh our minds on what's been going on in class so we don’t just forget about it. In this site it tells us the importance of homework-https://sites.google.com/site/importanceofhomework/pros- None of us like homework, but would you rather know what’s going on in class and have good grades when it comes to assignments and tests or would you rather fail everything? The time spent after school on class assignments may help students better remember their material and further more enforce what they learned in school that day. Homework can also keep the parents informed about what their son or daughter is learning at school.

I think that homework is good for students because it helps them to focus on what is going on in their classes. http://today.duke.edu/ did some reaserch by comparing students who are assigned homework with students assigned no homework but who are similar in other ways. The results of such studies suggest that homework can improve students' scores on the class tests that come at the end of a topic. Students assigned homework in 2nd grade did better on math, 3rd and 4th graders did better on English skills and vocabulary, 5th graders on social studies, 9th through 12th graders on American history, and 12th graders on Shakespeare. This experiment helps to prove that homework does help.

“Homework is very necessary. It is a good tool used in school that improves students' understanding of what they learned in class. Homework is practice and practice makes perfect. Homework allows students to do work on their own without in class guidance and figure things out. This helps them learn better.” says Debate. We need homework so we can learn to do things on our own. It usually doesn’t take that long to do and for the most part it is easy. If you don’t know how to do it then you can look it up on the internet or you can simply ask your teacher in the morning.

Homework will always be needed to help students succeed in their classes. Even though it is annoying and a lot of the time we don't want to do it, it helps up learn more, and become better students. For example if you were planning on going into accounting you would have to master everything that has to do with accounting. You wouldn’t want to get a job in an accounting firm and have no idea what you were doing. With homework you can take what you learned from class and apply it to the real world. At least that is what the teachers tell you. Personally I think that homework is the key to making more money in the real world. With more education you can get a higher paying job, and possibly be in a more important position in whatever company you work for.

I believe that homework is definitely needed. Without it we probably wouldn’t know what the teacher has taught or probably wouldn’t learn as much. Most of us don’t like it, but that’s because we think we have too much. Because we have too much homework, we complain about it more often or sometimes don’t even attempt to do it. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve gotten pointless assignments that don’t benefit my learning at all.

Up in the description, it mentions the “10 minute rule”. If we went by that rule, that means as an 11th grader, I’d have 110 hours of homework to do after school. Almost two hours! That’s certainly way too much. I shouldn’t have to take home almost two hours of homework. If I worked that night until ten, that means I would be up till after midnight. Then that means I wouldn’t be getting enough sleep.

I’m not for abolishing homework altogether because it’s definitely needed to learn. Principal, Alfie Kohn states in “Rethinking Homework”, that “The negative effects of homework are well known. They include children’s frustration and exhaustion, lack of time for other activities, and possible loss of interest in learning.” I can definitely agree with this. The nights where I have a ton of homework, I feel exhausted and definitely frustrated. Plus, I don’t have time for other activities if I have too much homework.

So what’s the answer to this problem? Alfie Kohn states, “Find out what students think of homework and solicit their suggestions – perhaps by distributing anonymous questionnaires. Many adults simply assume that homework is useful for promoting learning without even inquiring into the experience of the learners themselves!”

After research, I believe that homework is necessary. We can’t just abolish it just because we hate it so much. The solution to this is simply to give us less homework that would be beneficial to our time.

"Rethinking Homework." Rethinking Homework. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.

It's not very hard to find out that kids really don't like getting homework. With sports and other extra curricular activities it just really drains the students. Homework just adds to the stress and doesn't help the exhaustion level within that student. But is getting rid of the homework really the answer. Homework may be a pain, but it helps with that extra practice to understand the concept that was previously taught in class. It gives the student that time to try and figure out something they may not have understood before. Also, homework is a way the parents could possibly help their child understand what is being taught in a way they will understand. Homework isn't meant to be stressful, even though 90 percent of the time it is. It is meant to help and help further that students education to get them ready for college. I don't think homework should be abolished because yes, I hate doing it as much as the next kid, but in the end it really does help. "New Term, New Battle over Homework." BBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.

I feel that students don’t want to do homework, because of the effort they have to put into it, but im just as guilty sometimes. If kids don’t want to do homework, it will be a rough road for them ahead in life, thats why parents and teachers should do the most they can do to make sure the children are understanding what they are learning. Its the lack of attention that plays a key problem in this topic. I feel that students want to learn but they don’t like the routine of homework.

I believe that we should still have homework but a lot less than what we get. I feel like homework is a good tool to help people become more responsible and helps them learn what is need, but it also tend to stress the students out who do things after school, such as work or athletics. I feel like i am in the middle between both of these, but homework is needed.

Sunny I agree with you. Homework does build responsibility. I also believe that homework helps show the teachers that you know and understand what you have learned for the day. Homework is good but to an extant. When students grow up and get really good jobs, there might be a time where you are needed to make a powerpoint thats due in a week. Kids who get their work done on time will be able to do this but, other kids might not think so. Homework help strengthen the brain and help feel your vocabulary. Students learn how to manage their time wisely in order to get all the work done. For example, after school they may have track or softball and when they get home the only thing that the student wants to do is go to bed. But, knowing that they have work to do, they manage to finish it for the next day. Hartley, James. "Is homework good for you?" Psychology Review Sept. 1999: 26. General OneFile. Web. 25 Apr. 2014. Although this is all based on opinion, I read that “a clear relationship between the time that the pupils reported that they spent on homework and achievement in school examinations, with the best achievement being recorded by pupils who spent over 75 minutes each weekday evening on their homework.” It doesn’t take very long to do a little homework before bed or going out.

I like a lot of people believe that homework is needed but, I do not think it should be given in an overwhelming quantity. According to http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/homework-why-it-important, homework reinforces skills concepts and information learned in class which I think is true, but still if it is given in an overwhelming amount and is just busy work for a student who, keep in mind, will still get homework in other classes and possibly more important classes, but they still feel an obligation to get all of their homework done and then will be overwhelmed and go through the possibilities of not doing any of it or only doing what the student feels is important, than in which case you are setting the student up for failure.

There is also the fact that homework teaches a student to be independent and develops self-discipline. Which I believe to be true and it does teach responsibilty, but if the student finds the homework to be overwhelming or not worth doing they simply won't do it

Homework is not always a bad thing but some kids stress on homework if they don't get it. In "Starting from behind : community college create pathways to assist students who aren't prepared for the work." It says that the National and Science Initiative 45 percent of the u.s. high school graduates in 2011 were prepared to handle college math courses. 30 percent were prepared for college science. I think this helps them learn that doing homework really helps kids learn that in college you get tougher homework. That you will get more to teach people what they need they need to learn in life and why we need to give people homework .

Homework is very much needed in school. Sometimes teachers give us too much, and sometimes teachers don't give us any. According to Jillian Bichsel, director of academic services in Quaker Valley, she says that homework is a good time to practice the skills they have learned in the classroom. Both the National PTA and the National Education Association favor the rule-of-thumb limiting homework in all subjects to 10 minutes times the grade level. A first grader, for instance, would only have no more than 10 minutes of homework a night. I understand as you get older the homework gets tougher and longer, but in the end it is all worth the trouble. Also, homework scores bring your grades up if you just do them. It is all worth it, just take the time to do it right. This is why I am in favor of homework 100%.

There are different kinds of homework. There is purposeful homework and just busy work. Purposeful homework is designed for students to complete the work and it can involve parents in the right ways. With the parents knowing, this helps so the parents understand how much homework they have. There needs to be a correct amount of homework each night. Homework can help students learn how to manage their time, make good choices, and organize everything.

Homework can frustrate many people. When you are at home and you can't understand how to do your assignment, it can be very frustrating. Students can get so frustrated where they show violence. According to Dr. Donna W. Jorgensen, this is a problem with teenage students.

According to Dr. W. Donna Jorgenson, in her 45 years of education, she has given a fair share of homework. She has worked both pre-service and in-service to talk about the concerns over the homework wars. The parents will understand what is being asked for the homework. Lessons will go more smoothly, and result in a better way.

Homework is definitely an important part of school work. As annoying and stressful as it is on students, even those with a job, it is necessary because it helps with responsibility, learning, and it even helps the teachers. I found on http://www.cesdp.nmhu.edu/ that it helps with responsibility by teaching time management, and to have your work done on time. Homework doesn't end in school, its a part of life, making sure that we can have our work done on time. It also helps with learning for the student, helping them to memorize what they have been taught. This is the most important part because they can have practice to actually memorize what they need to know. And finally, it can help the teachers greatly. It can show, quite well what students need help. Many students that need help don't want to ask the teacher because they feel embarrassed. So, provided the teacher is taking that into account, homework is the gift from the schools, even if it's annoying and we don't see it now.

I am for having homework, but in reduced amounts. According to the article Does Homework Work on SIRS, it says that having homework at an early age helps young students develop better learning abilities and techniques. The article does however go on to mention that the amounts of homework some students receive is way too overboard. Studies have shown that too much homework can lead to depression, stress, and lack of physical activity. Students need to have homework so they can practice what they are learning. If they don’t practice what they learn, odds are they will forget what they learned. But kids still need to enjoy their youth, therefore, students should still have homework, but it smaller amounts.

Does Homework Work?." Asbury Park Press. 10 Sep. 2013: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.

I can actually see both sides of this argument but I decided to defend the idea of keeping homework because I think it can still be constructive. www.ascd.org stated that if a district or school discards homework altogether it will be throwing away a powerful instructional tool. In the article I read it talked about how homework can still be an effective form of learning if teachers are assigning it appropriately and using it to see what students might need more help without the student having to ask for it. There are lots of negatives to homework such as stress, exhaustion, and possible loss of interest in learning but only when given in excessive amount with little value. "Perhaps the most important advantage of homework is that it can enhance achievement by extending learning beyond the school day. This characteristic is important because U.S. students spend much less time studying academic content than students in other countries do. A 1994 report examined the amount of time U.S. students spend studying core academic subjects compared with students in other countries that typically outperform the United States academically, such as Japan, Germany, and France." I'd agree that homework can add extra stress to students' lives but later when they have jobs they will also have to deal with the stress of the tasks assigned with the job. Homework has been a endless debate for decades.

Homework is needed because it helps kids learn the subject they are being taught. It allows kids to work at their own pace and get things done. In examiner.com it said that it teaches the students to develop good work habits. Homework also allows kids to prepare for tests or quizes. If teachers didn’t give homework students wouldn’t do a darn thing and their grade would reflect that. I personally like homework because if I have a bad grade in class I want assignments so I can get the grade up. Homework is a good thing.