Since the beginning of schooling, homework has been a concept that has gone hand and hand with education. However, as time has passed and school has changed, different methods of learning are possible and different styles of learning were integrated. With the effects of the COVID-19, pandemic technology has created a space to revolutionize the way we learn today. 

However, homework hasn’t made such an evolution and continues to blunder struggling students year after year, bringing GPAs down and people’s hopes with them. Along with the implementation of weighted grades in class, not doing homework hurts your grade and a lot of the time only a test will improve it. Do students benefit from the amount of homework they get assigned?

I spoke with student Vicky Godinez to reach a proper conclusion.

“I feel that teachers should be more lenient on homework just because like it just, I feel like they pressure you and they just end up putting so much homework on you. And it’s like… what am I supposed to do now then they add more and then they’re like why aren’t you done with it. And it’s like I have stuff to do other than just your work.”

Students shouldn’t have to be plagued and put behind in their after school lives just to complete something that could be done in class. If less time was spent on the little things that build up, students could benefit. From spending more time on studying for tests to just having less tedious time spent on useless little assignments, students could do most of their graded and required work in school where they could find the means for assistance. 

“I think people should be able to turn things in y’know a minute before the semester is over because some people need to do that y’know some people just don’t have the time some people got jobs, some people got family in the way of homework. And you know what they just need to extend that a little bit and let people cut some slack maybe.”

School life is ever changing as the future is constantly paving new means for us to educate the next generation to carry on what we created. I find it important to accommodate the ever changing ways of learning and different students’ means for getting help on their assignments while still in the building.