Homework given to students' by teachers is a waste of time.

Let me begin by defining all the terms Homework: Schoolwork that a pupil is required to do at home. Students: A student or pupil is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. Teachers: A teacher or educator is a person who provides education for students. Waste of time: The devotion of time to a useless activity. Now that we have got a firm idea of what the motion is, let me bring up my first point. 1) Homework has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school. Some schools and some countries don't bother with homework at all, and their results do not seem to suffer from it. Studies show that homework adds nothing to standardized test scores for primary/ elementary pupils. I mean, homework at least the ones given today include nothing additional to the knowledge imparted by teachers. It is just a "revision" of something already taught. While I'm not against the idea of a fair revision, it is also important to note that not all students have equal capabilities. Homework unfairly judges students on the basis of how much they have understood on a topic they might not understand. Students should be allowed to revise and study subjects on their own. This helps students to identify what interests them the most and what they enjoy. A 2007 Metlife study found that 45 percent of students in grades three to 12 spend more than an hour a night doing homework, including the six percent of students who report spending more than three hours a night on their homework. http://www.theatlantic.com... Homework does not ensure that students practice what they are taught at school. Teachers often give pupils the end of the exercise they were doing in class to complete at home, it tends to be the harder questions towards the end of the exercise and if a teacher or a tutor is not present to explain or help then it causes the pupil to doubt their ability. To praise what a student has been taught requires the presence of a teacher or tutor who can guide the student if they get something wrong 2) I believe that homework takes up a lot of time . Being young is not just about doing school work every night. It should also about being physically active, exploring the environment through play, doing creative things like music and art, and playing a part in the community. It is also important for young people to build bonds with others, especially family and friends, but homework often squeezes the time available for all these things. A lot of homework may also negatively affect a student with stress and exhaustion. Homework also, in a way works to break down family relations. https://news.stanford.edu... The sad thing is, teachers assume that homework takes very less amounts of time to do. 3) Lastly, there isn"t a shred of evidence to support the widely accepted assumption that homework yields nonacademic benefits for students of any age. The idea that homework teaches good work habits or develops positive character traits (such as self-discipline and independence) could be described as an urban myth except for the fact that it"s taken seriously in suburban and rural areas, too. In short, regardless of one"s criteria, there is no reason to think that most students would be at any sort of disadvantage if homework were sharply reduced or even eliminated. Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of American schools " elementary and secondary, public and private " continue to require their students to work a second shift by bringing academic assignments home. Not only is this requirement accepted uncritically, but the amount of homework is growing, particularly in the early grades. A large, long-term national survey found that the proportion of six- to-eight-year-old children who reported having homework on a given day had climbed from 34 percent in 1981 to 58 percent in 1997 " and the weekly time spent studying at home more than doubled. --- Statistics and related Articles (Sources) http://www.alfiekohn.org... http://www.alfiekohn.org... http://www.huffingtonpost.com... http://www.familycircle.com... http://www.healthline.com...