If I were in Charge of Homework

The world would be very different if young people were in charge and reporters from London explain how in a series of columns for Children and Young People Now magazine.

Odaka Face Homework to teachers is classified as a good exercise for students but for students it is very boring.

Homework is basically extra work that teachers set to “help” children learn but to children it is torture. Children believe that homework is irrelevant because the work we do at home we cover at school anyway. When it comes to the issue of homework children and adults clash.

In my school we get set maths homework every week on a Monday for 30 minutes and on a Thursday we have maths homework again for about 45 minutes. We also revise for regular science tests and do English homework on the weekends. Sometimes we spend 10 minutes on homework and other times we spend 1-2 hours when we need to do really good work for our school reports.

If I was in charge of homework I would still keep it but make it less. To keep everyone happy I would make everyone spend a minimum of 10 minutes on homework and a maximum of an hour. If anyone wants extra work they could just ask the teacher to set them something different. I would also liven up the work by adding some fun activities rather than make students copy out sums and equations from text books. Homework clubs should be run for all students at school because it is difficult to concentrate at home but in school it is much easier.

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This story was written by Odaka Olugu, 14, and published in Children and Young People Now magazine

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Homework

Right, this is what I would do about homework...

First of all, keep it.
But, make it less. Give students homework with a minimum of 3 days per worksheet. A project is worth about 3 months.
Another thing is make a primary and a secondary completion date, a few days apart.

Failure to provide the Homework by the primary date, OK, give a minor punishment, 20 minute detention, 30 shortish lines, something like that.

Failing to either provide that next day, or the homework by the secondary date should result in a detention with the head of year, lunchtime. Probably about 50 longish lines?

Callum McIntyre (age 13) from United Kingdom, 09 July 2008 22:26

yes i think if i was in charge of homework i would make it less
we get more than 5 pages in one week !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

courtney (age 15) from loconoais, 30 December 1899 00:00

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If I were in Charge of Homework

The world would be very different if young people were in charge and reporters from London explain how in a series of columns for Children and Young People Now magazine.

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