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Prepare an argumentative essay on the topic: Is homework harmful or helpful?

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Given below are few points that will help you frame a complete answer.
  • Home works are an essential part of a student's life and should not be abolished.
  • Home work ought to be seen as practice and not as a load of work.
  • Students spend less than an hour in school learning a particular subject and are mostly listening to what the teacher teaches.
  • He should take time to recall what is learnt and also practice that what is taught.
  • Abolishing homeworks would cause students to forget what is taught in the class.
  • Learning is a process that happens through repetition.
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Homework is helpful

“Homework is important because it’s an opportunity for students to review materials that are covered in the classroom. You need to practice in order to become proficient,” says Sharon R. Stallings, principal of Signal Hill School in Voorhees, NJ. When students are unable to complete the homework, “that lets the teacher know they need more help in the classroom.”

“If teaching and learning is effective, the opportunity for application of classroom learning should happen outside of school hours as much as in school,” says Jean Wallace, CEO of Philadelphia’s Green Woods Charter School. Green Woods mom Megan Keel is all in favor of her kids getting homework: “It’s never too much and it reinforces what they learned during the day.”

Keel has seen both of her sons, 7th-grader Grady and 4th-grader Otis, struggle at times with homework, but she’s also witnessed “aha” moments. “When they’re just learning to read, homework can be a challenge,” she says. “But once the kids are confident in their schoolwork, they can do it more independently.”

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Homework is harmful
 

Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth, is an outspoken critic of at-home assignments. “Homework is frequently the source of frustration, exhaustion, family conflicts, a lack of time for kids to pursue other interests and, perhaps most disturbingly, less excitement about learning,” he insists. “It may be the greatest single extinguisher of children's curiosity.”

Kohn points out that no research has ever found any advantage to assigning homework — of any kind or in any amount — in elementary school. “It's truly all pain and no gain,” he believes. “There is little reason to believe that homework is necessary and no support for the assumption that it promotes good work habits, independence or self-discipline.”

Wallace disagrees. “A gradual increase in the amount of homework over the K-through-8 or K-through-12 years can better prepare students for building necessary skills of time management and the responsibility for their own learning,” she says.

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