homework should be banned

Before I begin my debate, I will point out pro's faulty arguments.First of all, she didn't define the topic, so I will do that for her.Homework: A strenuous activity completed by students, however, studying done by students before tests by own choice does not count as homework.Banned: Completely abolished.Studies have shown that people who do more homework or studying are more likely to be smarter, rather than the people who don't. -This statement is not entirely true. Studies have in fact proven otherwise, saying that too much homework is counterproductive. It can confuse and stress children. Too much homework can shatter childrens motivation for school, and makes school dreadful.giving you many great qualities such as independence (that"s a given), individuality and much, much more. -Homework does not just hand these qualities over to you. By doing homework, you use these skills, but this does not mean that everyone who does homework is independent. Also, independence means nothing in homework if the student can't even do the work independently.At school, you work at the same pace as everyone around you more or less. -Not necessarily. Often as you get older, work becomes more and more independent. Also at school, you are constantly learning and being taught along with other students, and then given work to do, where you can breeze along at your own pace. We need a balance between sport, socialising, and education. -Exactly, and 6 hours or more of schooling per day provides more than enough education, leaving only the mere few hours left of the day for sport, socialising and fun. Squeezing homework in turns the day into too much learning, and can cause stress in students.Now, onto my arguments.Homework absolutely must be banned, for many logical reasons. It is not right, and must be abolished immediately.First of all, homework has been proven to be counterproductive. Homework causes stress, confusion and anxiety in students. And it's no wonder, since teachers have been piling homework onto students, turning a 6 hour school day into an 8 hour one. For this reason, many students have trouble sleeping, and end up going to bed ridiculously late. Homework has even shown to have a negative effect on younger students' grades, and minimal effects on older students' grades. So why is homework necessary? Banning it will remove these negative effects on younger students' grades, and will stop all problems such as loss of motivation, anxiety, lack of sleep, stress, confusion, you name it. Homework has even created loss of motivation, and students want less to go to school. It is vital for homework to be banned.Secondly, homework takes up the precious time of students AND teachers. Every day, pupils are required to wake up at dawn, drag themselves to school, come home, and then have to pack everything they do into the short space of about 3-4 hours. Home work takes on average 2 hours, leaving approxiametely 1-2 hours left for everything else. Seems tight? You bet. This leads to lack of sleep because of the tight schedule. This can also result in children avoiding homework and getting punished, when the overload was not necessary in the first place. Not only does homework waste students' time, but teachers' time too, since they have to mark homework, when they could be planning lessons, and making fun classes. Homework drags children away from sport and socialising, to more education. This does not help children and their other hobbies one bit.Finally, students may not be able to understand homework, shattering their confidence. This can make them feel nervous leading up to important exams and tests. This also makes students feel like they have to study like mad, so they know everything in time for the exam. Students will know whether they need to study or not, without homework smashing their confidence before they can study anything. Also, homework which is too easy will only give them a false confidence, making them stressed at exams. Either way, homework does not help personal study. Also, studies suggest that homework which is too hard does not help childrens' brains, but confuses. So homework is confusing children, and killing their confidence.As you can see, homework is extremely unsuccessful, and must be banned. It is counter productive, wastes precious time, and is often not understandable, causing countless problems. Homework should be banned.http://www.ascd.org...http://www.alfiekohn.org...http://news.psu.edu...http://phys.org...