EVALUATIVE COMMENTARY 1

The article illustrates the growing argument about banning homework. The author is objective and advocates the reason why we need to agree on banning homework because homework is a burden for students.

Firstly, children lack the time for other activities because the burden of homework. For children, it would be better to run around during recess and playing fun activities such as sports. Daniel Tasman, the father of a second- grader wants to transfer his daughter to another school, said that children should have homework because he wants his daughter to have discipline and fulfill her dreams.

Moreover, homework does not guarantee positive results. A committee concluded that there is no link between elementary school homework and success in school organized by a New York elementary school. One public school in Barrie even noticed that grades went up after homework was banned. This clearly states that banning homework will make the grades increase and not drastically drop.

The author further stresses that parents are also annoyed with their children’s unending homework.. Parents are frustrated helping their children completing mountains of homework. In the last several years, a movement has emerged in questioning homework. An elementary school in Quebec banned homework last year because homework gives a lot of pressure on students and their parents.

We partially agree with the author on homework from school should be banned, especially for elementary school. Most of the students that have a lot of homework will not be able to spend their quality times to release stress and not meeting their development needs. According to The Journal of Experimental Education in psychologist (2018), when it comes to stress, more

than 70 percent of students said they were often stressed over homework, 56 percent said homework as a primary stressor and less than 1 percent said homework was not a stressor. This statement proves that too much homework will lead to negative consequences in mental health which is stress.

In conclusion, we reaffirm our stand that we agree with the author for the banning of homework. Nevertheless, we firmly believe that homework should also be preserved but in their own limitation in order to stabilize the flexibility students time.

- by Khadijah & Puti Ilyia