No More Homework !?!
Has homework reached critical mass in Toronto?
Families across the greater Toronto Area will be on the edge of their seats in the upcoming weeks as they wait to hear whether or not Toronto District School Board trustees will make the groundbreaking decision to ban or restrict homework.
The fact that homework could be on the legislative chopping block at all is not that much of a surprise. Homework has been a thorn in the collective sides of parents for some time now as the sheer amount of homework that children face each night has been wrecking havoc in otherwise happy households.
Kids are stressed by the volume of homework they face every night, and parents aren’t too happy about it either.
Homework amounts seem to increase in direct relation to teacher cutbacks and classroom sizes. School boards are expected to do more with fewer resources and classroom sizes are rapidly expanding giving teachers less time to teach materials during class, which means that in order to meet grade standards, more and more homework is assigned to the student. Unable to teach the curriculum in class, teachers send it home as homework. Now legislators want to eliminate homework entirely.
Something’s gotta give.
No single set amount of time for homework will work either because kids still need some measure of individualized attention. They still need to learn how to prioritize tasks, how to be organized, and how to make sense of the work that they’ve been assigned.
How do you feel about the potential homework ban?
OMG TOO MUCH MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i agree i hate homework i have a life and i want to talk to my friends instead of come home and do homework we go to school for 13 years (not including college) 10 months a year 5 days a week 7-8 hours a day! WAY TOO MUCH SCHOOL!!!
Yeah, homework… i could say a lot but i shouldn’t these are a few reasons we shouldn’t have homework: wastes time we go to school like every day! we need time to ourselves we all, well most of us have social lives we don’t care it’s scary… i want to burn it i miss out on fun stuff all the time i don’t get enough sleep i don’t like school as it is but then i gotta go home and do homework1 There are still thousands of other reasons too but i have to do homework right now… DESTROY ALL HOMEWORK!!!! I’m a 12 year old girl in 6th grade just making a point…
homework sucks so do teachers! burn all teachers and homework! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
I am 12 years old and in 7th grade. Each day I get about 1 1/2 to 3 hours of homework and practice musical instruments for about two hours. Sometimes I have to wake up at 5:00 to finish homework. Even with all this I don’t feel stressed at all. A homework ban is just dumb. I know a lot of kids that already have way too much time that they waste.
Oh and most homework is actually pretty fun. I like doing functions and writing book reports.
It’s funny how people say homework causes stress and leads to suicide. And then they say BURN IT!!! HOMEWORK IS SCARY!!! Oh wait… good idea… The Homework Bob: Oh my gosh, run! [Run behind trash can] Joe: Is it gone?!?! Bob: I think so! [Joe feels something in his pocket and takes it out] Joe: AHHH!!! HOMEWORK!!! NOOO!!! Bob: Don’t look at it!!! Joe: My eyes!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
i hate homework i hop they ban it:(
Homework is something we all have done and will continue doing it intill the end of time. Kids having to much free time is a bunch of malarky. I think friends can meet each other during recess time. How will they benefit on there education.
Martin **** off who cares about homework
there shouds be no home special in st.martins
HOMEWORK STINKS
I HATE HOMEWORK
homework sucks
homework Ahhhhh its sick!!! >={
ban homework ban it now!!!!!!!!!
homework is weird
I agree homework sucks!!! I never see tv cause of homework:-( I just hate it I have to leave my personal things just becuase of homework!!!!
When does a seven year old child get to be 7 yrs old? At the age of 7, I went to school, came home, played with my friends, went inside for dinner and spent maybe 30 mins twice a week on homework. They were usually projects of some kind. Homework gradually increased as I got in the higher grades. I played outside, unstructured with my friends, managed to stay away from drugs, alchol, promiscuity, and have no criminal record. I think I turned out pretty well. I got to be a kid when I was one, and learned to be an adult gradually as I got closer to adulthood. I think there needs to be a happy medium, and homework should be distributed appropriately. I don’t see why a child in JK should have homework EVERY night, but I certainly think a child in grade 8 should have homework to prepare them for what they will find in High School, and that high school students should be preparing for the homework they will receive in college/University.
homework is a ripoff we do enough work in class we shouldn t have 2 do homework. p.s. if ur single call me 1951
what is the piont of homework. we need a excitement you spend 6hours and 10 min 5 day a week for 10 months and thats for 18 years you spend less time in jail for killing people on a 1st degree canada needs to chage the school upper canada district school board WAKE UP CALL!!
Every study ever made showed that homework does NOT help students learn. It is stressful, and also one of the main causes of dicipline problems throughout the world. Also, too much homework is coutner-productive.
I TOTALLY agree with the two coments above!!!!
BAN HOMEWORk NOW!!!!! Pretty much EVERYONE hates it, and as ’Dee’ said, studys show that it doesnt help AT ALL!!! I HATE HOMEWORK!!
What people have forgotten to mention is that nearly every kid doesn’t do half their homework and when they do they use the internet…i learn nothing from homework at all some days i get 4 pieces a day and some teachers give you homework even when they are not meant to. I agree banning homework is not good but i think one a day is enough even if it’s 5 a week is better than the 22 i’m getting now.
Homework has made me (an 8th grader) seriously consider suicide. Who will you give homework to if all the kids are dead?
what if teens have after school sports and don’t get home til dark
HOMEWORK SUCKS AND WE KIDS AND TEENS NEED RELACK AT HOME AND WITH FRIEND
no homwork
i think that no homework would be GREAT!!!!!
Rock on for no homework!!!
ONLY ONE PAGE FROM EACH CLASS IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!! P.S.Danielle, try to encourage your daughter when she having trouble. =]
After reading many of these posts, I feel like many people think teachers are “out to get students” and ruin their lives and that we are not doing our jobs. I am a very good 8th grade history teacher–I love my students and make sure we do not just do boring worksheets everyday. Plus, I don’t just go home at 3:00 and I have a child of my own as well. The simple fact of the matter is that we have very little time to teach and help our students. I get 50 minutes to teach everything I need for a day. After we’ve completed the learning part there usually is not a lot of time left for the practicing part and that is what homework is for. Practicing what you have just learned. Did you know it takes an average person 8-12 times of doing something before they can memorize it? I agree completely with the person in the beginning who said we need to find a balance. Kids do need to know how to manage and organize their time and work on their own or they will have a difficult time in college and with their job. Teachers should not give 5 hours of homework a night either. A little moderation can go a very long way. Oh and the purpose of being a kid is not to have fun. It is to gain the skills and knowledge in order to take care of yourself when you are an adult. A balnce of fun and hard work is what we need.
its me again and i haaaaaate homework and it takes up to much time
Most days I get homework from at least 5 classes. Each of these assignments take 30 minutes-1 hour. Also I’m involved in multiple different after school activities. So most of the time I’m staying up unitl 10:30 to finish homework. I think a restricting the amount of homework would be better then banning it though.
Maybe just lighten up the homework. Not too much not too less. Don’t Ban it just even it up a little more. Les projects
I think homework is useless because if you’re one of the smarter kids, it’s unneccesary and if you’re struggling, it’s useless.
Homework can cause big trouble and u can also get in trouble if u dont do it Hw is stupid and also no point of doing u just learn it in school
Ok, so I don’t live in Canada, but I also have a similar problem. 15 years old, 9th grader in High School. Right now, it is 12:30 AM where I live. I have been doing homework all weekend and I am still not finished. This weekend alone, I have had to: -Read 4 chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird and write summaries. -Define 3 sections of Biology vocab words. -Make a timeline on the events of WW2 -Complete two LENGTHY Algebra 2 worksheets. (After I finished, I counted 17 pages worth of work I did. And I write fairly small.) And to make matters worse, end of year finals start tomorrow morning. Common sense along with proven studies tell me that staying up this late the day before several MAJOR TESTS THAT WILL TELL ME IF I GO INTO THE NEXT GRADE. So, if I end up repeating 9th grade next year, I can thank the countless hours I have put into finishing extensive and (mostly) un-needed homework assignments. *I am now going to bed, no matter how much work I have left. I guess I will have to wake up early!*
HOME WORK IS THE MOST STUPIDEST THING EVER. Homework can lead to suiced if have to mUCH!!!!@#$%
I think homework should be banned because we waste our weekend writing not playing it is really not fair.Even teachers dont want to give homework.but why do parents want us to do homework!why dont they let us play.HOMEWORK SHOULD BE BANNED!!! PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thankfully, I don’t get too much homework in the school I go to. Usually I’ll get homework from 2 to 3 classes a day out of 7 classes, and it only takes about from 50 minutes to an hour and 10 minutes to complete on an average day. Then I have plenty of free time to do whatever I want to, and that’s a good thing. I don’t want homework to be banned totally, we should still have homework, just not a very high amount of it to the point where it stresses out children. Homework does actually help me a good amount in my Math class, and in my U.S. History one the homework gives me additional resources to study for my tests. Without homework, I would probably not do as well in those classes, and it shows that homework can actually be helpful in academic achievement when done correctly. Homework doesn’t have to always be pages of work, either, in my Math class, for example, I usually get only 5-8 problems to do a day, but that is good enough to help me understand the work we did in class better.
my SATS are coming up.its next week not fair i have to waste my time practicing for my sats.hope i do good please
I HATE HOMEWORK
i agree with the ppl who said HW should B banned cuz whenever i want 2 do somthin or go somewhere, my parents always say “finish ur HW~” and it just gets SO annoying adn frustrating.
im in 6th grade and i have to much homework we should ban it
too much homework is 2 bad 6 grade dont have time to do my work
Kids’ don’t have the freedom to play with their friends or to spend time with their friends. When kids’ go on vacation with their families and they are away for almost the whole summer the kid’s won’t have time to do summer homework. Doing homework after school is just a waste of time because you don’t learn anything from homework you do all of the learning in school.When kids’ get a lot of homework and it makes them struggle when they could be playing outside with their friends. I’m in 5 grade and my teacher gives really hard homework. i think homework should be banned.
i am a 11 year old girl and let me just say one thing HOMEWORK SUCKS. it is a waste of time.BAN HOMEWORK8)
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