Kate in Lake Forest IL states that, “ My rule for fourth graders is that they are overwhelmed by homework, they can send a note home saying that they have tried but they can’t figure it out.” So my question is are students getting too much homework? The first reason is that they just want to see what we know and if we need to stay on that subject. Second reason is that they don’t give us too much homework because the only reason to come to school is to get homework and learn. Third is that they give us the homework to see if we know how to do it by ourself and to see if we were paying attention in class. Most students and parents think we get too much homework but they don’t see how important it is to get it because they just want us to get what we are learning. They are just checking on how well we are getting the subject and to see if we can move on to something different. …show more content…
They give us homework because they want to see if they can skip that subject or do they need to work on it more. Many people say that we don’t get enough education, that’s why they give us homework but most students don’t like that we get the homework but they seem to realize that we get every summer out of school. They give us the homework so we can review what we did before we went on summer break. Kids in other countries have to go to school year round, but we get summers off and christmas off and breaks while school is going