Homework: A Useless Piece Of Work! By:Olivier Cloutier

Imagine going outside after school having fun without worrying about homework, wouldn't that be fun? Many years of research has been done to figure out if homework helps students learn. What a waste of time! Homework does not help students learn, it stresses kids out and makes them bored after school. Why should they suffer the consequences of writing on a useless piece of paper?

Firstly, many students around the world are stressed after school because they know they have way too much homework and they know that they will never be able to finish it on time. In fact 56 percent of students consider homework as a primary stressor, and less than 1 percent of the students said that homework was not a stressor. A good quantity of homework has been adopted in Finland. Schoolchildren were given just 30 minutes  per night to spend on homework and none on at weekends. So the students were stress free and scored highly in their grades.

Lastly, homework does not let students have fun after school. Students have way too much homework, they can't do anything else! All they do when they come home is do their homework, take their showers and then go to sleep. That's not how students should live their lives. Teachers need to understand that students have other things to do at home, such as: church, activities, sports, jobs, family things, etc... How are students supposed to live creative and social lives when they have to do hours and hours of homework everyday. Don't you think they do enough at school?

In conclusion, homework is useless! Students have been doing homework all their lives can't you teachers give them a break? Homework stresses students and it does not let students have fun after school. By 1960, a reviewer tracked down 17 experimental studies, most of which suggested that homework made no difference at all. So teachers, why are you giving students homework, don't you see it is useless?

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Teachers all around the world are giving work loads of homework this is ruining teens/children's lives. In the whole world 43% of parents have admitted to doing their child's homework. Homework should be banded because homework has ruined kids creativity and a wast of time.

Kids and teens get so stressed on homework that they start to put pressure on themselves to finish it. This causes kids/teens to be under TOO MUCH pressure and stops them from being creative and living their lives. They can't see the beauty in the world because all they see is homework. They don't have time to just be children anymore. My cousin who is 8 years old has already started hating school and homework because his teacher gives him up to 2 hours of homework everyday. This doesn't give him much time to be creative or go play outside. He doesn't get the opportunity to make childhood memories that make life so fun. 

Getting 100% on a test can make you feel great but it also can take away all the fun in life. Kids/teens do enough work at school, they don't need more. Teens/kids are in school working hard 8 hours a day. But teachers are still giving them more work to do at home. Adults tell us to do homework so we can be more civilized and intelligent citizens of the world. But they don't see that our homework is useless because all kids/teens want to do live a real life while they still can. The homework teachers give kids is just pages of busy work it isn't going to help them very much in society. Homework isn't really teaching us anything.

To conclude, my opinion is that homework is making kids/teens see the world as a bad place while they are still young. Taking away all their creativity. Teachers think that they are making us smarter but maybe they should change their way of doing things because they are giving us TOO MUCH work. Adults don't see that their is more to the world than just work.