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Should Homework Be Banned From School?
Should Homework Be Banned From School?
HANOI UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
RESEARCH ESSAY
HOMEWORK SHOULD BE ELIMINATED
Class : 5A18
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OUTLINE
Introduction
Body
sports or exercises -> “will miss out on active playtime, essential for learning
social skills, proper brain development, and warding off childhood obesity”
(Cooper, 2001).
Cooper, 2001).
Conclusion
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the class. Every week, 5 hours are spent completing assignments by students on average
(OECD, 2012) and this figure tends to increase in lower grades. Despite the existence of
homework for years, the matter of whether to excluded homework or not remains debatable
due to its impacts on students. For its negative effects on mental health, physical health, and
Firstly, homework puts children under stress and pressure. Specifically, research conducted at
Stanford points out that pupils in high-performing groups who spend a great amount of time
on homework sustain more stress (Galloway et al., 2013). When they are constrained to in
charge of a workload that's beyond their advancement level, the critical stretch is incited as a
Privileged, High-Performing High Schools” that when it came to stress, over 70 percent of
interviewed students said they were “often or always stressed over schoolwork,” with 56
homework negatively affects students’ mental health in several ways, creating an invisible
demands and desires from family, children are likely to be forced to complete not only
assignments, which are already set in classes but also handle extra homework in after-school
one. Their heavy workload, as a result, generates serious health problems. For example, a
Students glue to their desks to complete excessive assignments instead of taking part in sports
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or exercises “will miss out on active playtime, essential for learning social skills, proper brain
development, and warding off childhood obesity” (Cooper, 2001). Undeniably, the
diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, and some cancers namely, endometrial, breast and colon
as World Health Organization (2013) mentioned, would no longer be novel from both
patients and the first-diagnosed one as the influences are hard to ignore.
Last but not least, homework affects children's family and their social lives as the time of
doing homework occupies the time for other activities. Nightly, it takes pupils more than 3
hours to fulfill their assignments at home (Pope et al., 2013), which means they need to carry
more than 21 hours per week, excluding the school-time to handle an excessive amount of
homework. Yet, the consequences seem to the backfire, “Homework not only robs children of
precious free time but also fails to accomplish the goals it purports to achieve” (Cherrill et al.,
2011, p.46), obviously, the assignments unfold tons of repercussions on children, leading to
an inadequate moment for friends, family, and extracurricular pursuits and that is not
matching their natural developmental needs or cultivating other critical life skills (Pope et al.,
2013).
Besides, the family’s conflict is one of the fallouts generated from the homework-completing
process. It comes that not all parents have the ability and time after long hours of work to
assist their children with the assignments. Therefore, quarreling is likely to happen unless the
couples find sympathy with each other in dealing with exotic and domestic issues. Parents
find their children’s homework is difficult to cope with due to the academic-weakness, yet
the schoolers often resist these efforts, the tension and boiling debates among family
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Supporters of homework argue that homework helps students improve their academic
achievement. Yet, Otto (1950) indicates that “Compulsory homework does not result in
2001), which demonstrates that the correlation between the scholastic achievement and
practicable.
It is also argued that homework is an effective way for parents to involve their children’s
2017, a poll opened among more than 27,000 parents in 29 countries showed that it takes
parents in India, Vietnam, Malaysia 12, 10, and 8 hours a week to help children complete
form the habit of asking help from parents instead of dealing with homework themselves.
“Many parents report that they feel unprepared to help their children with homework and that
their efforts to help frequently cause stress.” (Pickering, 2007). Obviously, in these cases,
In short, homework should be eliminated due to its repercussions on students’ mental health,
encourage outside and social activities to enhance children surviving skills. Besides,
attract the pupils’ interest also need supporting. Nevertheless, the quality of homework is the
main purport of assigning, nor bombard the children with an extravagant amount of
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REFERENCES
Cengage Learning.
leadership/mar07/vol64/num06/The-Case-For-and-Against-Homework.aspx
Russell, A. B. (2014). Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (4th ed.). The Guilford
Press.
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World Health Organization (2013, March 14). What are the health consequences of
detail/what-are-the-health-consequences-of-being-overweight