Some people believe that homework should not be given to school children. Others, however, say that homework is an important requirement for children to be able to develop appropriately. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.

The benefits of giving or not giving

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to

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are often debated. Some people feel that

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have enough

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to do during one day whilst at school, whereas others feel that the more

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set, the better. It is true that schools today place more and more demands and pressure on

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. The competition to do well, to enter a good university and to get a good job is significant.

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has led to the ideology that

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should do as much schoolwork as possible to help their intellectual development. The argument,

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, that more is better is not always valid. There comes a point, especially for a child when more knowledge cannot be absorbed in a day. When a child has possibly 7 or 8 classes a day on different subjects, he or she is processing a lot of information already. To give more

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to be done at home,

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, would be pointless and even counterproductive.

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it is important to be educated, childhood should

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be a

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when there is an opportunity to just play and enjoy the unstructured

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can significantly lessen the possibility of doing

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, it can be argued that there is a place for

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. If study at school is not overdone, the opportunity to look at

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again and extend ideas can be an invaluable exercise. It’s easy to forget one thing that has been taught once, but if that concept is revisited a

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, the brain has

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to reprocess and likely better understand and remember. To conclude, there is a place for

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for today’s

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. What must be remembered, though, is that

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needs to be limited to age-appropriate parameters so that a balance can be struck between study and free

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and relaxation.