Homework Should Be Banned

First off however, since my opponent has not posted any rules, I shall do so. DefinitionsBan - Officially or legally prohibit (something). Homework - Schoolwork that a student is required to do at home. Schoolwork - Work assigned students by their teachers in school. Rules of Debate:- No Semantics- No New Argument's Last Round (Only Rebuttals)- Any Forfeiture whether it would be by Con(me) or Pro shall automatically give victory to the opponent. Since my opponent has also not posted any structure, I shall assume that the first round is acceptance. However, I shall point out flaws in my opponents argument before moving on. My opponent is allowed to do the same. Logical Fallacy and Misleading:My opponent has committed the Logical Fallacy of Hasty Generalization. He has specifically committed the sub-category of a misleading statistic. A Hasty Generalization is defined as: "Mistaken use of inductive reasoning when there are too few samples to prove a point. " My opponent has said and I quote:"according to a recent study conducted by Harvard Medical students. A test showed that their is no correlation to students educational profile. This shows that if my opponent finds a correlation to education it will be invalid. "My opponent has said that because of one test provided by Harvard Medical students finding no correlation between homework and education. All other studies I find that may correlate these are invalid. One test is simply a to small of a sample to represent the norm in this case and therefore I declare my opponents claim invalid. He has also done the same thing in his next quote:"Also it shows that it will not improve test scores according to CNN. com a credible source. A reporter/teacher states that actually students perform better as they don't get confused. "Again, my opponent has proceeded to base his claim on one person saying students perform better without homework. One teacher cannot represent all the teachers in the United States or the world on homework. Therefore my opponent has committed another Hasty Generalization. One More Note:Although this may or may not be Red Herring, upon closer inspection of my opponents first source of his claim of no correlation between homework and education. It would seem that these students did no such "test" on what my opponent says they did. Even doing a Ctrl + F did not yield anything. The closest I got was:"Who is right? Are students not working hard enough or is homework not working for them? Here's where the story gets a little tricky: It depends on whom you ask and what research you're looking at. As Cathy Vatterott, the author of Rethinking Homework, points out, "Homework has generated enough research so that a study can be found to support almost any position, as long as conflicting studies are ignored. " Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth and a strong believer in eliminating all homework, writes that, "The fact that there isn't anything close to unanimity among experts belies the widespread assumption that homework helps. " At best, he says, homework shows only an association, not a causal relationship, with academic achievement. In other words, it's hard to tease out how homework is really affecting test scores and grades. Did one teacher give better homework than another? Was one teacher more effective in the classroom? Do certain students test better or just try harder? "This quotation states no mention of any test done by Harvard students. It simply says that homework shows no casual relationship. Even if I was to base "casual relationship" as a correlation. This is based off this one page and there could be a billion other pages proving this wrong or right. Therefore, this is my second reason for claiming my opponents sources invalid. I wish my opponent good luck, he may post his new argument's or defend his statistics as he pleases,I am looking forward to this. Sources:. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...https://web.cn.edu...https://www.gse.harvard.edu...My Opponent's Quotes