At this point, its obvious that any student in my position has been doing homework for about 12 years. For about 4 years now I have had a very specific view on homework that I have felt very passionate about. The core of my "position" or theory is that school should be just like a job. If we can call students "part time" or "full time" just like we would call someone working a part time or full time job then shouldn't they be the same? If schools are adopting a full/part-time views on being at school then we should make school just like a job. When you leave the campus then your work is done there. Just like when you are done with work and you go home and enjoy free time, school should be the same.
Homework should be made obsolete on that basis that we should do our leaning in school and in class not at home. Local tax dollars go to the school in order for them to educate the minds of our young. Education is defined as the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction or an enlightening experience. I feel strongly against the idea that students should be teaching themselves to any capacity because otherwise we should just teach ourselves completely and rule out schools. If we are paying a school and its faculty to educate students, why are we sending them home with assignments and readings? I am in no way trying to demean the work that teachers do but over time society has created this stigma that schools are expect to give students extra work out of school. The only work we should do outside of school is work we cannot get finished in school and studying. There should be a bigger emphasis on study halls, efficiency in school and hobbies in our free time.
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