I believe that kids should´t be allowed to take homework or do homework and that is my argument. Students should not be sent with school work to home. They just came from school and it would not be fair if they take school with them. Some kids don´t even get enough sleep so that they can finish there work before the next day. Some students don´t even go outside with there family so they can work and they should be with there family not trying to turn in their essays or math page. When kids or students
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Most of the homework adolescents tend to receive from their teachers is busy work, and children and family agree this is not fair to them. This issue is affecting adolescents, parents, and families. When students are overloaded with responsibilities from schoolwork, their participation in extracurriculars and social activities decreases. An argument over homework might seem trivial, but there are many negative effects on children who are attend school and go through this pressure. The debate that
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Eliminating Homework An Italian teacher named Roberto Nevilis lived in a city of Venice, in 1901. Roberto Nevilis made homework as a punishment for his students to fully understand and comprehend the lessons that Nevilis tried to teach the students’ in school. If the homework keeps affecting students in a negative way, than not a lot of students will graduate because of having low grade point average (GPA), which requires students to graduate from school, or students going to start dropping out
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needed in the home to attend chores (Vatterott, 2009). Many teachers viewed homework as a means to discipline and exercised the mind (Cooper, 2007) Learning in the 19th century included a great deal of memorization which required a lot of time outside of the school day to master facts and skills. Due to this type of instruction, children spent roughly two to three hours a night on their studies (Vatterott, 2009). Homework was regarded as a positive aspect of education and became a key component of
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Would you want a four day school week, or would you prefer a five day school week? Many experts say that schools should have a four day school week because it would allow students to have more time outside of school to do other activities. Others say that schools should not have a four day school week because students would get bored and tired with having longer classroom hours which would be necessary for the four day school week. Schools should be held four days a week and should have longer classroom
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Kids should have less homework so we would be able to do all of it. Most kids think we have too much homework therefore they don't do it. So kids should indeed have less homework and not because we are lazy but because we get a lot of homework from most classes while we still need to do our chores at home, get 8 or more hours of sleep and still wake up early for school to get more homework for that night. While needing to do homework, our parents still expect us to do our chores. In my household
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student is as follows: wake up, go to school for seven hours, (usually) go to practice for two hours, go home, and then do homework until they can no longer keep their eyes open. When walking through the halls, many fatigued students can be seen. Recently, students have been putting homework over their own health, which is utterly astonishing. Teachers expect their homework to be done for the next day the night that it is assigned. Yet, teachers fail to realize that students are not robots; students
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student should also take the time to create individual course folders and/or binders to keep paperwork neat and organized. For example, students can use page dividers and create individual sections for each type of paper such as printed handouts, homework, and completed tests/quizzes. If the student properly utilizes folders and/or binders, he or she will be able to organize him/her to success. Also, the student should keep work areas tidy to minimize lost time spent searching for needed paperwork
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Multitasking: A Lack of Social Skills? Many people in today’s society may look at multitasking as a harmless way of accomplishing multiple tasks at one time. For instance, one could be chatting with a friend online while listening to music and doing homework. Although multitasking can indeed be helpful in completing tasks in a timely matter, one must recognize the definite price that is being paid for this practice. Media multitasking is damaging today’s students by not only hindering one’s ability to
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An in-class activity I would have my students participate in would a warm-up activity for the beginning of the class period. Some of the reasons that I would have my students do a warm-up activity are that it helps get the students to start thinking about the subject and begin to focus on it. This will help the students make their transition mentally from their last class to my class. I would also use the warm-up as a way to set the tone for the upcoming lesson, like a building block to get their
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