Should Homework be given to Students?

u know what...after reading all ur replies...i think there should be homework...but it shouldnot be stress taking as it is seen nowadays...children cant cope up with completing their homework within 4 hrs ... then health is also important for them..and top of that...teachers nowadays are working on completing their syllabus rather than making them understand...and then when some kid has tuition and has his/her work done through that...then there is favourism among teachers...i m not pointing teachers...but the point is the system which is coming from ages...

^^i do agree with you on that..these days im seeing kids in high school having to do alot more then when i was in high school five years ago-some i do understand with education becomng more and more important

in todays society we are making kids grow up sooner than they should be...and then turn around and question their actions... [but thats another topic]

yah thats where i hve a problem...and thats the reason i find and want teachers not to give homework instead prepare them in the class only...with creative teaching.
Education should be abt gaining knowledge ...not stress for children.

Yes, now I am no fan of Home Work and more then Home Work I hate unnecessary home work. But through Psychology I have been able to learn why Home work is so essential part of education and becoming smart. Home work is just another way to revise what you learned in class, because we encode, and process, and the things we learn go into our "Long Term memory " Only when we have learned the concept more then once, and it is good enough to place in the Long Term Memory.

For example, we come across a many words, but we don't remember them, unless we used them at least twice in a sentence, and we write them, and we interact and again use the sentence.

Talking on my own experiences, I am currently in Advance Placement Psychology and I took the AP test for it on Wednesday, now since Monday I had been reading the summaries in the Kaplan's Ap Psych practice book, guess what guys, by the time I was to take the test I could not remember anything. Even though I love psychology, It was never a priority class for me, i just did the work almost with my eyes closed.

Home work teach people to concentrate, it gives them a chance to absorb and learn on their own.

i agree if homework does teach that..but homework should be a homework not a burden..