Jacob+english

Have you ever wanted to know what the point in homework is? Well, most people of my age on this planet don’t know it and I’m telling you there isn’t one and here‘s the proof. I’m telling you that absolutely everything about homework is negative: the time, the stress, the energy; homework takes, for no purpose at all. Well, here’s the obvious truth: schools should ban all homework. God made the human being a creature that is free, sociable and against to having to stay indoors away from all other individuals to do some five thousand word essay. Homework makes this will impossible. To add to that, the thing is that nobody particularly enjoys homework do they? Well, I certainly don’t and I’m sure when you were at school you didn’t enjoy it either and I’m also pretty sure that most teachers don’t take pleasure in giving it out, checking we’ve done it and then after correcting it. Additionally, what I sometimes find is that some teachers give homework out for the sake of it, even if every person in that class has completely mastered the subject they are working on. However, it would be a lot more reasonable if the homework was only given to the people who didn’t work when they were supposed to be, didn’t understand it or had trouble learning it. Most people would have started being given homework from the age of eight until they’re the age of eighteen, the time the homework takes depends on which year you’re in probably from thirty minutes a night if you’re in year four and up to about four hours a night if you’re in IB. However just in your secondary life you spend on average 1884 hours on homework; that is equivalent to seventy eight and a half days, and lots of it has no purpose at all. There is a tiny positive thing about homework and it is that it teaches us to work at our own speed, in our own time on our own which comes down to self discipline because in class we have to work at the same speed as the rest of the people in the class. (I have the awkward and unfortunate opportunity of having a mother as a teacher and she’s the one told me this; I still don’t understand it, but I have to suppose it’s true).