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Now, I'm sure we all have different ideas about homework, Good or bad? How much kids should get? that kind of. well, i think school should lower the amount of homework kids get. Here's why, this comes from tesh.com
So, do you agree, or disagree, and why?
tesh.com said:is Homework Actually Helping Kids?
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and homework. Homework's important, because it makes children smarter, helps them earn better grades, and helps them get into better colleges, right? Not necessarily. According to ABC News, these days, kids are bringing home mountains of homework and starting in kindergarten, they're expected to do an hour of homework a week. Which rises slowly to 2-and-a-half hours a day - or more - for high school seniors. Educators say that when kids get piles of homework, they begin to see learning as a chore. Not something fun or interesting. When young kids get into trouble for not turning in their work, it turns into a combative relationship. Basically, teachers, schools, and parents versus students.
That's the main reason teachers in Great Britain want to abolish homework for elementary school students – and reduce the amount kids are given in middle school and high school. Some experts say that homework may not be good for anybody - other than teaching kids how to be responsible and organize their time. In his book The Battle Over Homework, Duke psychology professor Harris Cooper crunched the numbers on dozens of homework studies and he found that homework has no effect on the test scores of elementary school students. In fact, even though high school kids who did some homework scored slightly better on standardized tests, high school students who did more than 2 hours of homework a night actually had lower test scores! Studies also show that students living in countries that don't give a lot of homework – like Japan and Denmark – perform better on tests than children in homework-heavy countries.
So, do you agree, or disagree, and why?
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