Homework should not be mandatory

First off, one of your links I can't see. One link. I had two. Rebuttal 1: Practice doesn't make perfect if you don't know it to begin with. For instance. Jimmy has a problem with finding the area of a circle at school. Jimmy failed his test. He is then given homework on the subject, and doesn't understand a thing on the worksheet. This causes Jimmy hours of frustration, so he decides to look up the formula online, and use a calculator to cheat. He makes an A on his homework. The teacher then think Jimmy knows the material, and doesn't tutor Jimmy on the subject. this causes Jimmy to not understand something, and make a lower grade on his state issued standardized test. if practice makes perfect, then why not have more class time devoted to the subject? Why not tutor whoever has problems with the subject? Rebuttal 2: Why do students have to write and read long paragraphs? Rebuttal 3: And how many kids do you really think put so much " care and time" in their homework. When I went to public, I had homework, and rushed. I had bad handwriting, didn't read it very well, and really was kinda sloppy. I was a straight A student. No B's, made A's on all my standardized test, yet, I had o do more and more homework! Homework never helped me. Now that I'm home schooled, I have no homework (yay) well, I guess you could call it after school work. I also just recently took an IQ test, and made a 116. That is above the average adult. Homework is really that good? I had none and I am only 12 about to turn 13, having a higher IQ than most adults. Rebuttal 4: Homework doesn't help. I have proved that. Rebuttal 5: How many teachers do you know that stall a test just because a kid didn't do well on his homework. Two things will happen. he will cheat on his homework, or get frustrated for hours and fail miserably. They should get the teacher to tutor the kids early, before class. Rebuttal 6: Now this is just an overall sloppy argument. I could argue just as well that students get all their time management skills afterwards. Many kids postpone their homework till the last minute. Really? That is such a good way to promote time management skills. Homework has no proven benefits part 2: As stated by my link. (1) "Second, even at the high school level, the research supporting homework hasn't been particularly persuasive. There does seem to be a correlation between homework and standardized test scores, but (a) it isn't strong, meaning that homework doesn't explain much of the variance in scores, (b) one prominent researcher, Timothy Keith, who did find a solid correlation, returned to the topic a decade later to enter more variables into the equation simultaneously, only to discover that the improved study showed that homework had no effect after all[2], and (c) at best we're only talking about a correlation -- things that go together -- without having proved that doing more homework causes test scores to go up." In another link BY SCHOOLASTIC. It stated and I quote "My kids had invested so much time with little to show for it." I suggest you read that article too. More and more evidence against homework. I have proven homework has no benefits, and can actually be bad for the student. Thank you. 1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com... 2. http://www.scholastic.com...