Debate Topic-Homework should be banned, By Julia Eleanor Zavaleta 7L

Why homework should be banned-Julia Zavaleta 7L

Why should homework be banned? That is the question, here’s my point of view on this issue. Homework does have some plus sides, but it also has many down sides. One of them is that homework can keep you up all night, especially when you have several big projects due, on the same day! And as many of you know, staying up all night weakens your immune system making you more prone to diseases, and having diseases can make you miss school that can give you more homework.

But that is only one reason I feel that homework should be banned. If homework was banned, I know that I would be outside getting exercise and being more active, along with many more students. But instead I get cooped up inside doing homework, also, along with many other students. Another reason that homework can be unhealthy is that, when students get home they get a snack and do their homework. And when you are eating and concentrating on something you don’t even notice when you get full, so you will keep on eating and eating until you get done with your homework. And that type of thing can cause obesity.

When students have to much homework, they can spend hours and hours doing it,they can even spend all night doing their homework if they have enough! So they loose concentration and students can start getting tired. Especially when you have major projects due. I feel that if teachers and sports coaches communicated with each other, so that practices, projects, and homework wouldn’t get in the way. I feel it would help so much, and students would get their homework done. And they would get higher scores on it.

I know that not all teachers do this, but some do push you to do extra curricular activities. Those after school activities can put some students back on homework, students need that after school time to work on homework. Which brings me back to this, if coaches and teachers communicated that could make such a big difference!

So to wrap it all up, homework can be good, and it can raise test scores. But if teachers let up on it a bit there would be no harm done, and students would be outside getting exercise. And younger people in general may just be a little more fit. And students wouldn’t be so tired and they may get higher grade averages from not being so stressed out the night before.