Homework should be banned

"Homework should be banned. I believe this because international comparison of order students have found that homework has not any relation with tests, this means that students don't make a better job in tests with help of homework, so I believe that homework is a waste of time, it is not really achieving is objective which is making students to learn."Homework is not meant to be in direct relation with tests. Homework is used as a tool to advance and reinforce learning - teachers will set homework based on a subject which has been recently taught to the students to help them better understand the work. Tests will often ask the information learnt in lessons - it's very helpful if students have done extra work based on these topics to give fuller and better answers.A study focused on homework, using a sample of 3000 kids, found that students who did 2 hours of work after school achieved better test results and performed better generally at school."Also after school, students should rest or do other activities instated of doing homework. Students should not have their brain closed only in studying, they need also to have social life and make activities and this is restricted with homework."According to many statistics, the amount of homework set on average for kids is around 1 hour a night, occasionally 2. This is not too much as to restrict social life or hobbies. Do an hour of homework before you go out and get drunk, then you can have the rest of the weekend to cure your hangover."Studies have shown that many students find homework as a boring and tired activity"That's obvious. Most students find school itself to be a "boring and tired" activity, doesn't mean we should ban school."With homework, there are many possibilities of students cheating,"That's an issue with the student, not homework. You're doing yourself a disservice if you cheat at something as trivial as homework."search with the Internet" Searching with the Internet isn't cheating. You're still looking at the questions and writing down the answers, you're just doing it the easy way. Besides, claiming homework is easy because you can cheat contradicts your argument - if it's easy to just Google the answers then why is it taking up so much of your social life? "Also, sometime times shy students that don't ask questions in class, don't understand the lesson and will find homework very difficult to realize."This is a nonsensical argument. If a student is shy then it's up to the teacher to realise that and take care of them. How is homework at fault here? If anything it helps that student because then they can Google the subject/read a textbook and learn for themselves."Many children will like to join to a club or another extra-activity and this will stress them more, just because they have homework, this social activities are also very good, so children should not get stressed about joining to them."This is pretty much the same point as your second quotation. Same answer.Homework should not be more than 2 or 3 hours a night. However, banning it completely is a ridiculous suggestion. Countless studies have shown that students who do extra work after school do better in their exams. That's a fact. If anything, homework should be made to be more relevant to the subject/topic students are studying. I remember the dreaded "write a letter to Shakespeare!" homeworks which made me want to vomit up my cheap canteen lunch. Gives me nightmares just thinking about it.But, no, it should not be abolished completely.