Here’s your homework,” the teacher said with delight.  Always, as the teacher’s lips moved to the word HOMEWORK, students cringe, moan, and complain.  The teacher, however, feels excited to give homework as a way to give kids work and more things on their list to do. As people, students, and teachers would normally assume, homework is to have certain skills be improved in students so that it  is finally ingrained in students’ heads that it would be hard to forget it. On the other hand, sometimes too much homework or homework in general stimulates the opposite; it could lead to disappoointing grades or low self-esteem. Usually this topic becomes a debate; one side of the table will argue that homework is useful and has a purpose, while the other will remark that homework is completely futile and only wastes time for students. Here lies the question: does homework serve a point, purpose, and a certain prospect for the future?

As many teachers say in a survey, they believe that homework is useful because it sees how much the student has progressed and to see the resposibiblity in each individual. Also, most parents believe that homework is beneficial because if there is any trouble/ misunderstanding to a certain lesson, the student can ask their parents for additional help. On one side of the argument, research proves that out of the 4,317 students interviewed out of 10 high schools that are very high-performing, an average amount of homework completed per night is 3.1 hours. Instead of having a time for students’ self, or relaxing before the next day of 6 hours of continuous education, or even spending precious time with family, they are doing homework. To continue, an educational psychologist, named Harris Cooper discovered something that was very surprising, but predicted when reviewing surveys. It confirms that 43 out of 50 equivalent surveys, 4% is how much homework included and accounted for improvement in students’ tests’ scores. In addition, according to www.debate.org, 57% of people stated that homework was harmful, while the other 43% stated otherwise. Even a teacher from our own school, HMS, Ms. Palladino (Enrichment Language Arts) quotes, “There is no point in homework,”; Mr. Massara, an Enrichment Social Studies teacher, sides with her. Sadly, (not for students) homework, corroborated with evidence, goes against most teachers’ hopes of loading homework by the bucket load; however, opinions can drive any person anywhere. So if you’re an individual that prefers to have homework, or you’re an individual that desires an afternoon laidback, the question will still rest with different perspectives.