Homework Is A Piece Of Work
Lilly Molini
Staff Writer
Although many students believe that homework is perpetual, what they don’t realize however is how essential it really is.
Homework has been a main strategy for teachers for centuries, and continues today. Many students don’t realize how detrimental not doing homework can be on their knowledge in a certain subject. The push for homework really grew when the need for schools to meet increasing state and national academic standards began.
Many people believe homework is very tedious and sometimes has the potential of being a lost cause.
“Homework, for most classes, I feel like is a waste of time because you learn enough in class that repeating the work outside of class is just wasted effort,” junior Kody Cooper said.
Homework’s main objective is to advance the knowledge from student’s comprehension on their class content. When requirements were set by the states across the nation, homework became an effective tool for teachers so that students would fully understand the topics they had been taught until parents became worried about the stress it gave to their children.
“I think homework is for sure necessary because it gives you a way to check what you have learned,” sophomore Haley Hergenrader said. “But sometimes I think it gets to be too much.”
Homework is so crucial due to the fact it helps students remember longterm, important things they learned that day. Repetition is key considering the more you review the faster you remember the knowledge many teachers believe.
“I believe homework is very important practice to improve your skills,” math teacher Cody Gregory said. “ It’s like a sport to get better you have to practice in order to improve.”
Studies have shown that if students do an hour of homework and studying each night, their grades would improve drastically in just weeks. Although many kids don’t actually take the time to put forth their best effort towards homework, there are still students that really spend time on homework.
“I think that homework helps with the courses if kids are actually doing it, because cheating doesn’t benefit anyone’s knowledge,” Hergenrader said.
Cheating is defined as the act of getting credit or receiving honors for work that was not completed by the person submitting the work. With the fact in mind that teens across America just look at cheating as just helping out a friend, what they don’t realize is that it has the likely of damaging their companion’s knowledge.
Sometimes it is sad that some students value a letter grade over actual learning when cheating, but homework is a necessary evil when going through school, and students should put on their big-girl pants and buckle down.
There’s only one shot at graduating.
