Even though I don’t support homework, I always try to look at the other side of the argument, I find it important to cover everyone’s opinions, it’s just as important as having someone to argue with… in a nice way.

The only reason I don’t support homework is not because it has a lack of value, it’s because homework is an overused way for students to do unnecessary work outside of the classroom in their own time. If only there was some way to make the board of education sit down and take a look at this disaster zone of the curriculum – all it needs is a bit of organising right? The thing they’re always telling us we need to be? If only there was some way to type the fact that I am rolling my eyes right now.

Sure, assigning homework in proportion serves various educational needs, but it’s the definition of homework that people seem to be misunderstanding. Pointless homework is pointless, makes sense, but if it is the right kind of homework (which there seems to be a lack of) it does have some values.

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Practice makes perfect is the kind of saying I like to shove back into people’s faces, of course, when you do something over and over, and over, and over, and over and over again… you’re going to get better at it. The only problem being is that homework isn’t really practicing for anything we’re not already doing during school, plus it’s different enough, not to be the same, and not different enough, to get excited about.

The only thing teachers should be giving students to take home is something to think about, after all, that is the real way humans learn – we ask ourselves a question and then seek out the answer. Nobody knows everything, nobody knows all the questions either, but everyone has the ability to find the answer to something if they put their mind to it. It’s ironic really when the answer to “I am having trouble doing my homework.” always seems to be ‘Tough, just put your mind to it!”. If only parents and teachers took the time to think back to when they were student-age, if they can remember back that many decades, and see that maybe if someone took the time to help them it would end the vicious cycle we know as the adult-child theory.

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