As a child, having to cut down on enjoyable moments of family bonding and playing with friends, only to go finish a pile of homework has always been abhorrent to us. To this day, we detest the idea of giving the child homework every single day, until they are too stressed to think or give time to anything else.

A child’s primary purpose in life must never have to be to confer with the extremely flawed and capitalistic education system of the world.

A child must be allowed time to develop, learn, and explore outside the domains of the school. You don’t need a research report, or a survey to tell you homework causes stress in children. Just look at your child’s face working late into the night, slumped over a bunch of assignments, a fraction of which he perhaps doesn’t even understand.

What really is the point of overworking a young child so much?

Is there a need to begin the stress and pressure of work-life so early in their childhood?

The problem chiefly arises when a teacher is unable to complete lessons sufficiently during class and so instead hands the work over to the child to take home and gruel over. To add on that, there are projects - arguably the worst kind of homework ever. They neither reinforce concepts from class in the child’s mind nor equip them with any new skills to take with them in life. All they cause is unnecessary stress and hurried, last-minute work that benefits neither the students nor the teacher.

Perhaps if a more thought out, and an organized plan was chalked out for homework, in a way that would ensure the child was actually retaining whatever they learned in school. If homework was more concise, and not frustratingly long and stretched, and if it were not given every single day, perhaps then its benefits and long term positives could be considered. It is argued that if a child is to truly learn a concept, he/she must be able to recall and understand it in different settings - not to just retain it for a short time in class, then forget it once they come home.

A proper homework schedule that does not compromise the child’s playtime, family and friends bonding time, and does not take away from the child’s overall holistic development, maybe understandable.

For older age groups in secondary school or higher, it may even be necessary. This ought to be done with proper consultations with the guardians and parents of the students, whereby a proper agreement may be reached upon, and the child would be balancing all aspects of his or her growing life appropriately.

Whether the subject is in the field of sciences, mathematics, languages, or humanities, ensure that the child has understood his or her homework before they are set to do it. Or else what is the point of them monotonously getting over their homework like it were any other chore they need to get rid of, an obstacle in the way of their otherwise exciting lives that they detest with all of their hearts.

How would it benefit the child, if he or she has not even understood the purpose behind the tasks you keep showering him/her with?

Homework is really a bane in the entire education system. It is designed to keep the child further trapped in a stressful, work centered lifestyle, away from other important and extremely essential aspects of development.