Does Homework Really Help You Learn? By Tristan Bedard

Homework: Finishing work outside of class to help you learn during the process. The definition of homework is a lie. Homework isn't about finishing up classwork anymore, it's now a task. We spend approximately 6 hours in school sitting in chairs listening to teachers and when we finally arrive home, we can't relax anymore, we have 2 hours of homework to do plus our out of school activities. Homework isn't a learning enhancing method anymore, it's a burden.

When most students arrive home, they don't have the energy to complete unfinished work. Most students don't even bother completing their homework since so little teachers even check the answers to grade it, they just skim over it to check if all the answers have been answered, students catch up on the teachers habits, they will just answer whatever they feel like because they know they will get the right answers since the the corrections will be on the board.

In today's generation, school grades aren't as good as they were before. You can blame it on all you want on media, social networks etc... The only reason for this, lack of participation amongst the teachers. Before, teachers used to collect the work that was assigned and grade it, now they just check if the student answered all the questions and that is an issue.

Homework was once a tool to retain the information you learned during the day, but now it's just a task, basically a waste of time. Most highs school students have more than one after school activity, like sports, a job etc, and we don't have anytime to relax. The next day, the teachers complain that our homework isn't done. Which adds up even more pressure.

Studies suggests that high school students, in this current generation, are 25% more stressed than others. With added homework and long-lasting projects in multiple classes it is just hard to get a hold of schoolwork.

I have nothing against education and learning, but today's schools and classes aren't as useful as they used to be. In my opinion homework isn't worth it anymore because of accumulated homework and projects, high levels of stress and simply a lack of combined time with out of school activities. There is only one simple solution to avoid this problem, teachers must grade homework.