Children should not have homework.

I'll offer rebuttals to my opponents arguments now. I'll bold a summarization of their arguments, and then for quotes by my opponent I'll offer in italics.Now, I have another solution to one of the problems my opponent talked about in round 1 regarding the psychological problems of having children cooped up inside most of the day. Another solution, other than lessening homework, would be to assign homework that requires the children to go somewhere. RE: Finland and ranking in Legatum prosperity indexWhere are you getting that Finland assigns no homework? My source suggests they assign an average amount of 2.8 hours of homework a week[2]. Additionally, while one of the countries that score high in the legatum prosperity index have little to no homework, what about all of the other countries? Finland could simply be an anomaly. Additionally, the fact that they do assign some homework definitely doesn't help your cause.Mary C Lamia Ph.D. attempts to put it into perspective, " Most often, what motivates a child to do his or her homework are negative emotions. Negative emotions, like distress, fear, anger, disgust, and shame, will motivate a child to do something to avoid them, or urge a child to do something that will relieve their effects,"I think this problem has to do with homework generally being unenjoyable. To solve this problem, as well as everything you bring up in this same paragraph, each teacher needs to think about the homework they are assigning and how to make it enjoyable. I'm in college now, and the professors here seem to be a lot better at making doing homework enjoyable, in comparison to elementary school teachers, etc. Of course, part of that might be because I'm now an adult and when as a child, you need everything to have a certain child-like fun to it. So, I don't think the solution to this problem is necessarily to get rid of homework, but rather to try to make it more enjoyable, if that's possible.RE: Homework is not in the best interests of childrenI think one way to make it in the best interests of children is to allow the children a voice in education. I actually would support a libertarian socialist means of educating people: which is one in which doesn't have a teacher that tells the children what to do and how to do it, but rather, guides them through possible solutions that they come up with on their own. It would stress on the importance of choice and having a voice in what you get to learn. I personally like the John Dewey organization for education and doing education through his ideas, if you're familiar with them. Children would choose whether or not to have homework, and if they choose to have it, why not have it? You can read more about Dewey's ideas on education here[3][4] Homework robs children of their free time, time that can better be spent on more engaging and fulfilling activities.However, this time is used for something important: for better understanding of a topic or subject. How is someone supposed to learn more about a subject, or grasp it, without practice? If the school system was improved I may be inclined to accept homework, but not without significant modifications to the whole educational system.Yes, the education system needs major reform, as I said. Now, in regards to the calculations you had, 1 hour for necessities, 8 hours for sleep, 1.5 hours for commuting to and from school, 6 hours for school, and 2 hours for homework, you have roughly 5.5 hours of free time on weekdays. The 10-11 hours I mentioned was for weekends. However, I didn't take into account the need for bathing and getting dressed and such. Either way, you can see there is actually a lot of free time still even with homework. No one can deny that homework can be a factor in kids staying up late to take the free time that school has robbed from them.I suppose it might, but homework doesn't usually need to take time away from sleeping. As I pointed out, you should have 5.5 horus of free time on the week days, and then more like 11 hours on the weekend days. If it's taking time out of sleeping, that's because the child is either poor at time management skills, or is spending too much time for free time. Now, I was someone who always got to bed late. I could never explain why until I took a psychology class where we briefly went over how some people's core temperatures peak at a certain time of the day, and fall around the time you're supposed to go to sleep. I am gussing mine peak sometime during the night, for whatever reason, and doesn't fall until late in the night. Due to that, one change I would make for school would be to allow the option of taking night classes in secondary and primary education. Right now, there is literally no option for elementary-high school but to take classes that go from about 9 am to 3 pm. That sucks for us night owls who are biologically made to stay up late. I love college for this other reason: I can take night classes. I'm currently taking night and late afternoon classes only. So, ultimately, I don't think homework needs to be eliminated, but more likely that it should be changed to reflect the interests of the children. Sources:[2] https://qz.com... [3] https://www.lib.uchicago.edu... [4] http://www.gutenberg.org...