We are doing a report on homework being bad. We are 13 years old, and go to Montgomery Middle School in New Jersey, USA. The three points as to why we shouldn't have homework are - When we come home, all we want to do is just chill out, as most people would agree too. We spend 7 hours in school, in aggravation and frustrtoin, so why should we have to bring that home with us too? Everyone says that kids don't spend enough "quality time" with family and friends, but we don't have the time. 35 of our waking hours are spent in school weekly. Then, we come home to 2 or 3 hours a day of homework. That is between 10 and 15 hours of homework a week. Say you have a test the next day. You get home at four, had basketball at seven, ate dinner at five, and then in between those times you studied. Then, at night you still have to study additional hours and finish your homework. You probably won't get to bed until after midnight. Therefore, any thing you've studied may have left your brain by the time your alarm goes off at 5, and even if you
did remember it, you'd be too tired in school to concentrate on your test.
We would like your feed back and ideas on this subject to use in our report. We would greatly appreciate your support. Thank you much.
Sincerely,
Gema and Tiina
> > > Excellent time for another debate: Should teachers be required to take exams?
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> hmm...when someone figures out how to make an exam to test the things that actually make a good teacher, maybe. Its not just what they know and just testing their knowledge won't help the problem. Likely a knowledge test would weed out just as many good teachers as bad teachers.
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> If you really want to know how an exam for teachers would work watch Ontario in the next few years. Supposedly such an exam is part of our new education reform, most of which should likley be thrown out...but that's just my opinion
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> Rivi "Wait and see" kah