Is Homework Necessary?

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Dear Student Council, My fellow students. Thank you for taking the time to discuss this matter among yourselves. Recently, I have discovered an article which appeared in British newspapers back in mid-2010. The Daily Mail publisher Laura Clark reported online that homework may be inimical towards students, parents, and family life as a whole. More schools in Britain have been encouraged to abolish homework due to stress at home within families. Dr. Eleanor Updale, an award winning children’s author, stated that homework results in children being “anxious, tearful and cut-off from their families”. I am sure that many of you in the student council and many more in the student body as a whole can relate to this. Don’t you feel stressed whenever you come home? We all come home knowing that school’s not over, that we have a few extra hours of hard work before being able to return to tranquility and solitude. Updale declared that a conventional 30 minute class exercise could sometimes take as long as 3 hours. She went on to express that this is due to parents being forced to “nag, shout, bully and bribe” their children to do it at home. Once again we can all sympathise with this. I guarantee that most of the students.6 here in BSM have been blackmailed with the traditional “no television until homework is done”. So is homework really worth the strain? It is said to increase intelligence and will keep our mind on working. However, homework takes far longer in the house than it would at school. Would it not be easier to extend school hours a bit, rather than sending the students of our school into a stress filled home? Surely, it would be more simple. We where school uniform in our school because it gives us a sense of purpose. We put on this uniform every weekday knowing exactly where we’re going. The effortless task of putting on the same clothes every morning

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