In behalf of my belief in gaining important skills that are not taught in school I am arguing not to have summer homework. I personally have not had summer homework before but I know friends that have and from what they have told me it is very stressful. Summer is supposed to be a relaxing break after a long school year. The last thing us students want to think about is homework. Student’s summers are filled with other activities and having homework would build unnecessary stress to not only the students but to the parents. Homework would interfere with events and disturb the relaxation summer is supposed to bring. Most students would procrastinate homework and cram it into the last few days of summer. Therefore, it would not even be sufficient
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During the summer we learn many important skills not taught in school. In the article “What Homework Can’t Do”, written by the author Nancy Kalish in 2009, she writes “It steals time away from other important aspects of learning such as play, which helps kids master social skills and teamwork. In addition, writing book reports means kids spend fewer hours being physically active, which is essential for good health and weight control, not to mention proper brain development”. Here, she addresses at a very important point that kids have other skills to learn that are not taught in school and that physical activity is necessary and would not be achieved if their time is occupied by homework. Some may believe during the summer, students lose all skills and do not believe they benefit from the break but what they do not seem to understand is that some students spend all summer at camp or working or traveling where they are gaining amazing experiences and skills that are not taught in school. In the article “Forgotten on Vacation”, written by Harris Cooper a chairman of the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, says, “The long summer vacation disrupts the rhythm of instruction, leads to forgetting, and requires time be spent reviewing old material when students return to school in the
During the summer we learn many important skills not taught in school. In the article “What Homework Can’t Do”, written by the author Nancy Kalish in 2009, she writes “It steals time away from other important aspects of learning such as play, which helps kids master social skills and teamwork. In addition, writing book reports means kids spend fewer hours being physically active, which is essential for good health and weight control, not to mention proper brain development”. Here, she addresses at a very important point that kids have other skills to learn that are not taught in school and that physical activity is necessary and would not be achieved if their time is occupied by homework. Some may believe during the summer, students lose all skills and do not believe they benefit from the break but what they do not seem to understand is that some students spend all summer at camp or working or traveling where they are gaining amazing experiences and skills that are not taught in school. In the article “Forgotten on Vacation”, written by Harris Cooper a chairman of the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, says, “The long summer vacation disrupts the rhythm of instruction, leads to forgetting, and requires time be spent reviewing old material when students return to school in the