Homework

Homework helps students to further understand what they learned in class. If parents do their childrens homework, the child is losing the understanding of everthing they should know or be learning. Homework is practice of a skill already learned. Even though a skill may have been introduced during the school day, the student may not be ready to practice independently. Close communication between school and home can help support the student in this situation. For example, a parent who understands how a science concept is being demonstrated in school will have an easier job helping reinforce that concept at home. So helping students with homework is also good. My mother and father used to be heavily involved in my school work and what I was learning, they used to help me with it when I needed the help from them. Parents and siblings should help when the child needs help with homework without telling them the answer. The student should have to think rather than being told the answer. Overall I believe homework should never be stopped because homework is just another way of helping us understand what we learned earlier.