To Ban Or Not To Ban By Maude Cormier

Recently, I babysat my neighbor's youngster. He is only eight years old and  had approximately 70 minutes of homework. He shouldn't have to do that much homework, he should be playing outside. To much homework doesn't help elementary students learn better. Elementary schools in Canada should give less homework, because it is to much work for a child, homework will overwhelm the students and will stress them out.

To begin with to much information for a young child's brain isn't good for them. When the kids come home from school they don't have any concentration left because they used it all up at school. Kids should go out and play instead of getting their brains fried by work. Having worked all day and coming back home with work is counterproductive. Margeret Morrissey says ''while we're making six, seven and eight-years-olds do extra work, in some countries they wouldn't even have started formal schooling.'' Banning homework in elementary schools won't make the students stupid, but might help might help them be even more concentrated the next day, since homework won't have taken all evening. That means they could go to sleep earlier. Why not ban homework? In Canada, there are already some schools that have banned homework. So why shouldn't all elementary schools ban homework? It won't hurt anyone!

Secondly, homework should be shipped away to an other country, because it overwhelms student's and adds pressure. Kids evenings are hijacked with homework. I remember when I was in elementary and I was struggling with unclear homework, my mother would try to help but it would always end up with me and he arguing which caused a stressful environment. Homework should be banned because of the stress it causes to the young innocent brains. Why should teachers give homework to confused minds? Homework will only increase the stress and decrease school grades. Come on teachers, be wise and realize, that homework only makes things worse.

With this in mind, homework in Canada does not help elementary students learn more. This is because homework is to much work for a child. Also it puts young students under to much stress at home and at school. How can they be the best if they're under too much stress?

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