Homework used to be a good thing, used too. When homework started out, just 30-60 minutes a day to practice what you have learned at school that day.
Those times are long gone.
Now homework takes 120-240 minutes every day, mostly practicing things that I don’t want on need to know. Yes, knowing the composition of a cell is useful knowledge for a microbiologist to have, but maybe I don’t want to be a microbiologist. Nowadays homework takes up the little time that we aren’t at school and replaces it with endless hours of writing until we can’t bend our fingers.
Well now that you know my side of that argument what’s yours?
I don’t have an argument for two to four hours a day. That’s not justifiable at all.
I think changes need to be made in the way school days are structured and in how much is expected to be covered at each grade level in each subject. We can’t have the homework debate without also having the school schedule and school curriculum debates.
I have homework everyday and at least 2 hours worth per day. I don’t enjoy having no free time because of homework.
I totally agree with you.