Could you imagine a world where homework does not exist? In high school especially, you are up all night doing at least two hours of homework for just one class. You start to wonder if all of this homework is going to benefit you in the long run or if it is worth it. All of the hard work you spent on that 2 hours of homework doesn’t even pay off when you get to school the next day and the teacher doesn't even check in the homework or take it as a grade. How many times have you done all of the homework and still do poorly on the test? This constant cycle makes kids stop doing the homework all together. Homework is not helping students of the twenty first century get to where they need to be to succeed in the work force.

In the article, “What Students Would Do If They Did Not Do Their Homework,” Dorothy Suskind points out that it's not enough just to have less homework or even better homework. Suskind believes that we need to change the expectation in our schools so that students are asked to take schoolwork home only when there's a reasonable possibility that a particular assignment will be beneficial to them. She discusses how researchers have consistently failed to link homework with achievement and could only imagine what children could do if they were allowed to go about what they wanted after school, instead of doing homework.

It is said that “teachers in top-performing nations, such as Japan, Denmark, and the
Czech Republic, assign less homework compared to their low-performing counterparts in Greece, Thailand, and Iran”(Suskind). This research makes it a little more clear how useless homework really is to us. Things like motivation and amount you accomplish, come from in-class learning. Suskind points out that research suggest that work outside of class stimulates student to restrict their attention what is important, not aim to do their absolute best,