This House Believes That Homework is Futile in Today's Soceity

pro:"Time is valuable. We all need some time to ourselves. School already takes up a lot of time and it is necessary to have time which does not involve concentrating on learning. Education is not the only important activity in everyone"s day; physical activity, play, and time with family are just as important as all teach life skills just in different ways. The internet makes it possible to be learning at home, there are even many computer games that help with learning. Homework clashes with these other activities. It can damage family relationships as it means parents have to try and make their children do their homework."The thing is, homework is not mandatory, you don't have to do it as i have previously mentioned. You will not get arrested. If homework is truly such a threatening issue to you, then don't do it to avoid conflict. It's simple. Yes there are consequences, but if you are in such dire conditions from doing homework, why even do it then?pro:"Homework does not only take up time doing the homework at home but also takes up time in class. First there is the time that the teacher takes when explaining the task. Then more time is taken going through the homework when it is done and marked. This time could be better spent engaging with the class to find out what they do and don"t understand. The answer to this is to have more time in class rather than boring homework."pro:"homework to me, it"s just something that causes unnecessary stress and in the end doesn"t actually do much for you. Sure, some practice of graphing concepts is good, but why couldn"t we just do board work in class? I think that we, as students, should not have homework for a number of reasons."Why couldn't you do it in class? Some teachers run out of time and homework is good for practice outside of class. My opponent pretty much conded that some practice is good, which means that homework is not actually futile. Also my opponent is contradicting him or herself. 1st, (s)he makes the point that homework is bad because your wasting time learning other concepts, then (s)he makes the point that they should've done the assignment in class. This makes absolutely no sense. Do we replace it with other education in that time or do we do it in class? i'm confused on the contradiction.pro:"I agree in adequate quantities - however, in school, teacher push this to the limit and I certainly do not think 4-5 hours in an adequate stress level for a 15 year old boy. I rest my case!"My partner has pretty much conceded that homework can be beneficial if in sufficent quantities. This flies into the face of his resolution which means is the homework is futile(pointless). Throughout this debate, my opponent has continued to tell us why homework is bad if there is sooo much homework that it consumes daily life. I completely agree with him/her that homework in overburdening quantities is not effective. I have proved the homework has some positive benefits and i have proved the stress in some quantity is good. My partner has not provided any evidence to which he can back his argument on as i see no links in any of his arguments (s)He has sited evidence but has no indication of where the internet link or research was done.Vote con for reasonability. I know you may not like homework but it can be a necessary evil for education. I hate homework too, but i gladly do it to practice and learn.