No More Teachers, Lots of Books.
When given extra work you are obligated to be ahead of other students which is making them more competitive, healthy, and happy. As stated in the article by Bennet and Kalish “All parents want their children to be happy, healthy, and competitive in a highly competitive world.” Although having enormous amounts of homework every night of the summer or even during school is redundant and could be cut down to a minimum, so that there is more free time for the students . For example a teacher can assign a book to read over summer and a essay to go along with it. So, this assignment is challenging yet easy at the same time. Summer assignments are an acceptable way to get students ahead on the material that other teens their age are not even going to grasp until the middle of the year if that.
Vocational homework is given to help students into the rigorous course that they are enrolled in for the year. As Bennet and Kalish argue that homework has “no benefit at all and that most studies have found little correlation between homework achievement (meaning test score grades), are wrong in countless ways.” For...
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