Homework: The Second Iteration

I’ve already made the point that homework takes away any hope of down time a student- such as myself- could otherwise have.

I’m here today, though, to talk about another aspect of homework. In fact, the whole point of school.
In my previous post on homework(published on October 25, 2013), I pointed out that it takes away all of your free time. This makes students hate homework, which leads to hating the school that assigns it.

Teachers spend minutes on end, droning on about the importance of being motivated to learn. Maybe, just possibly, if students didn’t hate the school,they would be more willing to be taught by that school.

Students hate homework. Homework is a student’s entire life. Therefore, students hate their lives. That can’t be good for psychological well being, in fact, stress can have a physical impact on people as well. Studies have shown that stress can lead to shorter lives, more painful lives, and generally- a pretty bad time.

Teachers, do you really need to assign homework that much? Is it worth ruining your students’ lives?

Think about it.

Please

Homework

Grown- ups think “How hard could it be?” It could be very, very hard. They think you go to an enjoyable day at school, learning the information the world has to offer. You then go home and practice a little in each subject and take the rest of the day off.

There could not be a worse representation of the facts. You learn nothing in school. You go home and stay up till, oh, eleven thirty or so, and go to bed. There is no free time.

The homework isn’t fun either. No, it is quite possibly the bane of my existence. Hour after hour, the only sound in my house is the sound of my pencil scratching on paper. Scritch, scritch. I hate it. Hours upon hours of boredom. Desolation. Silence.

I wake up the next day, and all I have to look forward to is more of the same.

Oh summer, where are you? I fear I may be going insane. Maybe I already am.