Homework: Why It Shouldn't Be Overused Though Homework has been used as a teacher's tool in order to help maintain what's taught in class, it has evolved into an overused form of pointless busy work. In early schooling teachers began to assign tasks to be completed outside of the normal timeframe they were given. They'd give these assignments to the kids to take home in order to get that extra practice in teachers really felt they needed.This was popularized as class time seemed to get shorter and shorter and teachers didn't think enough practice was getting into the child. This evolution of the classroom gave birth to the excessive use of homework. But the more and more use of it the more useless it became ironically enough. Nowadays you'll find teachers handing out assignments …show more content…
In all reality most of the real ‘practice’ comes in during note taking. And so begs the question; Is all the busy and useless work assigned meaningful and does it further the learning experience? If you ask most people ‘What's the best way to learn something?’ almost all would agree on one thing, practice. So of course naturally you'd expect there to be plenty of practice in a school house designed for learning. There also needs to be and easy way of seeing where the students are when it comes to the lesson without dropping a quiz or test in their face.The best way for this to happen is through the power of homework. Unfortunately though most teachers forget that this was why homework came about in the first place. They've seemed to use it for other purposes. For example some teachers use it for a grade balancer, using them as grade boosters in order to sustain the numbers for their students. So now teachers have turned the greatest practicing tool into something