Comments on: Should Parents ALLOW their children to do homework?

By: benjamine

benjamine — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Many homework assignments are useless. Take college and high school essays for instance. Most students struggle and loose sleep over them, turn them into the professor for a grade, and never look at them again. How many people get jobs writing essays. Homework doesn’t sharpen students skills, its busy work that takes up the whole afternoon/evening and in some cases the whole night. The time spent on homework would be better spent on gaining life skills and work experiences. When a person applies for a job, an employer doesn’t look at his or her homework assignments. What matters is if the person has the skill set and work experience to qualify for the job.

By: Beatrice

Beatrice — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:41:35 +0000

I agree that students get too much homework. I remember my own miserable school days. In grade school, homework usually took from the time I got home to dinner time. This left no free time for me. I feel like homework robbed me of a good amount of my childhood. Things only got worst with middle school and high school. Homework took from when school ended to bed time. I remember one time in high school, I had a lot of homework from all my classes. I realized that I could not finish it all by bedtime. I chose to focus my energy on the homework from the classes where my grade was weak and I need the points from the homework assignments to pass. I worked all evening until I noticed it was 9p.m. at night. I had one more assignment for religion class. I decided that homework was not worth losing sleep over, and since I already had an “A” in religion class that missing one homework assignment would be fine. My religion teacher scolded me the next day over not doing the assignment, I explained why I had chose not to do the homework. She went on to lecture how her class was just as important as the others. Today as an adult, I still think I made the right decision. Missing one homework assignment was not going to cause me to fail the class and getting adequate sleep was more important.

Kids already spend many hours in school, allowing them to have free time when they get home is beneficial. Nobody wants to spend hours at a desk studying a variety of subjects and then come home to do more class work. Students have lives outside of school. School should not consume their whole day, and students shouldn’t have to pull all nighters to finish the assignments on time. I am all for pushing for schools and colleges to assign less homework and having homework free nights.

By: maha

maha — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 04:28:37 +0000

I think my daughter has a lot of homework. She is in Kindergarten and has anywhere from 3-5 separate assignments a night. It can take anywhere from half an hour to an hour and a half. I believe it’s excessive.

By: Archer

Archer — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:51:53 +0000

Homework is the base that sharpens student’s skills. It strengthen your analytical and decision making qualities. So, parents should allow them to bear the load of homework.

By: Michelle Johnson

Michelle Johnson — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:12:23 +0000

Yes, I'm a Tutor. Parents should allow their children to do homework. Parents can help their kids if necessary or if the kid must need help. Start motivating your kids. If will boost kid mind with self confidence. Also, I'm sugessting you "Some Effective Suggestions to Know How to Concentrate on Homework" It will help you and you will help your kid. Thanks

By: kristina brown

kristina brown — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:40:41 +0000

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By: Sally Sonderson

Sally Sonderson — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:11:10 +0000

I think that parents just should help kids with homework, since overall performance is still importan. I have recently read that kids helped with homework by their parents are more successful at studying and show more interest in it. here are some other interesting facts about parental involvement in studies.
http://www.homework-desk.com/blog/parents_helping_kids_wtih_hw_/

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:54:31 +0000

In reply to BrittonL. LoL! Touche!

By: Crystal Green

Crystal Green — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:46:57 +0000

Although, I see your point a LOT! I also think that if you try and buck the system to much with not giving your child the chance to do their homework or encouraging him to do it, you’re doing him a major injustice.

Here’s why:
1.) He will get dinged in school for it big time. Especially in the society we live in.
2.) He won’t really have the chance to learn the material that is given to him because gosh knows teachers are having to cram in a lot in a day and they have to assign the homework so that the student has a fighting chance at learning the material. (Teachers have literally become a glorified babysitter from what I’ve seen in our local school systems.)
3.) If you want to install him those wonderful values and morals, you may want to consider homeschooling him. He can still be a part of those school programs (i.e. sports, and any other aspect that the public school offers.) Then his schedule is based off of your terms.
4.) Our kids need to get use to working long hours because in just about every job they are going to obtain in the future is going to require them.

I clearly see your point, and I lived through it when my kids were attempting to attend our local schools. I felt your frustration just as much! I had to do it with multiple kids and it did shock me how much homework the kids would bring home each day starting in the early grades.
Then I whined to a teacher friend of mine, and she pointed out all of the same things I just did to you. If I want my child to be successful and have fighting chance at keeping up I knew I had to make some changes. Hence why we homeschool. There are still days when we have a LONG day filled with school work, but there is a LOT of flexibility.

I feel for you. It’s always a tough decision and a hard one.

By: Janine

Janine — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:23:14 +0000

In reply to Judy. Thanks for sharing your experience Judy. I think that is what most parents feel like.