Why Homework Should be Banned

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Harris Cooper, a researcher on homework from Duke University, claims that too much homework causes stress. In this I paper will talk about the damaging effects homework has on a child, how homework causes students to dropout of school, and some ideas for an alternative to homework.

Children go to school for seven hours a day, when teachers make them do homework it causes them to get stressed. Furthermore if children understand what they learned at school why do they need to repeat it at home? If children are struggling on a certain subject, teachers should be able to help them directly, not with homework because giving them homework on something they don't know anything about is counterproductive. Instead private tutoring could be something schools provide for failing students and not homework.

When Parent and Child magazine asked author and educational critic Alfie Kohn about the argument that claims homework promotes academic achievement and helps children get ahead and why he is against homework, Alfie Kohn said

“By definition, "getting ahead" means defeating other kids, rath...

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