Summer Homework Should Be Banned
Nancy Kalish
Nancy Kalish coauthored The Case Against Homework. She believes there is no reason to overload kids with assignments during the summer.
Swimming. Softball. Camp. Book reports. It's pretty easy to recognize that one of these things does not belong with the others. Summer is not the right time for homework, and not just because kids hate it. There are some very good reasons why teachers should think twice before piling it on this summer.
Some educators say that doing book reports and math problems helps kids maintain their skills over the summer. But there's no research proving that kids who don't do summer homework experience long-term learning loss. Chances are, you won't forget how to compute fractions in a few months. You might be rusty in September. But a quick review in class should bring you up to speed. If it doesn't, you might not have been taught the skill well enough.
Summer homework can also take away from the important learning that goes on outside of school. This includes reading for pleasure, which helps you establish a lifelong love of books. Play is also essential. It gives you an opportunity to master social skills, such as teamwork, that will be key to your success as a working adult.
And if you are doing anything that helps you break a sweat, you are also helping your brain develop properly. Research shows that physical exercise is essential to proper brain growth in children. Plus, exercise helps keep you healthy.
Finally, it is important to consider how a load of summer homework will make students feel about returning to school. Should kids start the school year feeling burned-out and resentful? Or should they return to school refreshed and ready to learn? Shouldn't kids have time to just be kids and not little adults? The answers seem obvious to me. What do you think?
Write an essay about why summer homework should be banned. Write a persuasive letter explaining 3 reasons why I should not give summer homework to you. If you’re responses are not good, then you get homework this summer.
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They should ban summer homework for many reasons. Summer is a time to enjoy with family not doing home work. Summer homework should banned because by the time we return to school our brains will be so tired and in school we will not be able to think. Kids do not like summer homework because on a hot day kids would have to do home work instead of playing outside.
ReplyDeleteBy Arnav
May 5th, 2009
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Novelli,
I feel that you should not give me homework for the summer because I have to go to summer camp. I would not want to do homework in the summer. I really do not have the mood to do my homework when I am supposed to practice my violin and piano. Other kids might have things to do. If we finish our homework for the summer already how will you give us some more homework. If we have to do all that homework in the summer we will not be able to go outside and get some fresh air or talk to anyone that often. I would not want to spend the summer without stretching my legs. I also would not want to tell my new teacher and class that all I ever did over the summer was homework.
Sincerely,
Ginny L.
Dear Teachers,
ReplyDeleteI think teachers should not give homework in the summer. I think homework should be band in the summer because we have other sports to do. And capming, and swimming, and lots of other things. If they keep giving us homework our brain would melt.
By Dylan.J
Homework should be banded for the summer because we have sports and other stuff to do. We should not have homework in the summer because it is going to be so hot out and we would want to play out side. They should not give us homework because we had enough and we would go to the beach and swim.
ReplyDeleteThank you for not giving us know homework. by:Joe Mancuso
Dear Mr. Novelli,
ReplyDeleteI think that summer homework should be
banned because we spent 18O days with you,
and when our next teacher asks us to do
the easiest math test, our brains aren’t going
to work! And on the summer we just want to have some fun because, we have been staying with you way to long and don’t you feel bad for us? Wait, you don’t feel bad for any of us stinky kids!!! Ha! I’m
just kidding, you care so much about us, and you said it yourself. Anyway, that’s why you should band summer homework. Hope you do!!!!!!!
Your stinky kid,
Sarah Stinky Lushaj