"Is homework a good thing or a bad thing? Teachers and paretns say it's a good thing; they help you learn and get an education, which is good for your future. Students think that homework is torture and should not be assigned. Students are the ones who have to the do the homework, which is why they coplain about it. The teachers don't have to do it so they don't complain.
That didn't answer the overall question: Is homework a good thing or a bad thing? It depends on how you look at it. This is probably the best answer anyone can give. If you're the student who has to do it, you wouldn't want to do it. As teenagers, we care about dates and TV and computers, not homwork."
As a participate of a incredibly daunting task such as homework each week, I take in Andy's inquiry as a personal statement. Homework, even though it is a repepititive task, I do see it's purpose to help reinforce what we have learned throughout the school day.
I think the question Andy is trying to ask is why we have homework. Since it is our job as a student to be educated and grow into a capable adult, we might see homework as our job. Rather, I think it the Educator's job to assign homework. If we didn't have homework, we wouldn't remember what we did throughout the day and lose the time we spent and energy we pent in school. Homework is a way of re-learning and fortifying what we learned on that day, making what we learned practiced element.
If students ask if homework actually does help them learn better, it may be seen as defiance or laziness. Seeing them that way is valid however, as it is the teacher job to reflect actions of students on their work habits, but if asked by a higher official, it might cause discussion. It is valid to assign homework, as it is a pathway to work later. The way you might complete an english paper might be the same way you file a report at your job. Either way, it doesn't matter, homework sets up a similar environment that a job does.
That depends a lot on the job you choose. And there happens to be a good educational case to be made AGAINST assigning homework, but I'll leave that alone for now.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, what I need to tell you here is that I'm noticing a great deal of redundancy in your writing. It sounds a lot like you are "formalizing" your writing with lots of packed, complex sentences. Take a look at this one:
"If we didn't have homework, we wouldn't remember what we did throughout the day and lose the time we spent and energy we pent in school."
This would be much better trimmed down to:
If we didn't have homework, we wouldn't remember what we did throughout the day.
I see PLENTY of redundancy here...go over it and check it out.