Homework
Homework Pros and Cons, Advantages and disadvantages in overview. Pros and Cons List
Since the start, Cons lead with 65%. Over the last 12 months, Cons lead with 60%.
- Since the start (Sep 2014)24,883 votes35% Pros65% Cons
- Last 5 years11,636 votes40% Pros60% Cons
- Last 12 months5 votes40% Pros60% Cons
- Last 30 days5 votes40% Pros60% Cons
Year by year new votes per year
| Year | New votes, pros and cons | Majority | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 60% Cons | 5 | |
| 2025 | 50% tied | 0 | |
| 2024 | 50% tied | 0 | |
| 2023 | 60% Cons | 1,034 | |
| 2022 | 60% Cons | 8,048 | |
| 2021 | 60% Cons | 8,160 | |
| 2020 | 82% Cons | 5,031 | |
| 2019 | 65% Cons | 1,469 | |
| 2018 | 71% Cons | 687 | |
| 2017 | 66% Cons | 376 | |
| 2016 | 59% Pros | 22 | |
| 2015 | 52% Pros | 27 | |
| 2014 | 50% tied | 24 | |
| Total | 65.1% Cons | 24,883 |
This list is also available in German: Hausaufgaben
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You can review what you learned in school to see if you really understood it. Therefore, it is a good exercise, and keeps mentally fit.
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Additional time spent in free time
Homework is also a very good review
You then have no time at all for anything else
You learn to work independently
Stress
Teachers can see where there are problems
Homework is largely controlled by parents. Teachers are thus unable to check the extent to which the children were able to complete the task independently.
Better cooperation in school by doing homework, good opportunity for students to score and get on better grades
Usually too many homework assignments, teachers do not consult with each other
Homework forces you to deal with the subject matter in a concrete way.
Homework eats up an enormous amount of time, because most teachers also exaggerate with the tasks. It is enough tests, school work, and book examples in the school
Many students need them to see if they can understand the material on their own.
Homework = more books, notebooks, folders in the bag = back problems
Homework helps students determine whether they can apply the theoretical material in practice
Homework is a big time eater. Students have little free time to meet friends or devote to their own interests.
I never make them anyway
If I already understand what I learned in school, the homework doesn't help me anymore either
You learn the material more intensively
Most of them just write them off anyway
Homework helps you to become more independent.
You can't sit at your desk for hours every day for each subject
Trains time management and responsibility
Are usually not fun
unfortunately you get smarter
Back problems thanks to heavy school bag (Too many books, notebooks)
Promotes reflection
is exploited by teachers to extend the school hours
you can think about the topic in peace and check whether you have understood everything.
Take a lot of time
Good opportunity to improve your grade
Homework paper, paper is made of trees, trees produce oxygen, Without oxygen no life - too much homework no life
Help to prepare for class tests
Some parents help children, others do not, there is no equality of opportunity
Learning through action
less time to learn
Parents also get to see what we learn at school when they check homework.
Psychologically wrong: one should learn for oneself and not to fulfill a duty
The school determines what is done in the school, why outside?!
Parents pay so that children learn at school and not at home
You don't lose your thoughts in other crap and you are prepared for days to come
Half of the homework is not checked or addressed again in class
Homework is a good repetition for some and they can see if they can do something or not.
Partial tutors assigned.
Through the homework exercises you always repeat some of the learned material.
monotonous
Learns a lot
Often much harder than school material, triggers feelings of despair and incompetence
You can do the homework at your own pace at home.
Homework causes the rest to be neglected (friends,family and any pets).
As a single mom, I do it this way: one homework assignment, one gummy bear. That's how it works with the kids.
No time for sex life
It is an exercise for what you have learned.
You sit for a long time at the table and do not move that is unhealthy and probably causes back problems
Writes better grades because of homework.
For school 6 hours are enough I think there should be no homework because that is just unnecessary
It's a lot of fun and a great pastime for all students far and wide. Through them, students do not have so much boredom in free time.
You have stress and no time and that too for nothing else, because homework has no influence on the grades.
Reinforce student competence
Teachers always say you have to do homework for half an hour, but they don't even realize that the students can't do it at all.
One prepares for the lessons
You have no more free time after school
Personality stimulation when done correctly
When you play a sport in your free time, there is usually no time left for homework. Most children have better things to do in their free time!
learn more and better for the future
Quarrel with parents
Doing Homework is fun
For those who can already do it in school, it's boring and a waste of time.
You can annoy the teachers you hate if you don't do it
I am too cool for homework
Parents can keep an eye on what their children are learning in school
Homework has no influence on school grades, so it is useless - this is what a study showed
you repeat the material from school and so you can understand it better.
It can be that you put yourself under too much pressure & overload yourself
Through home practice writing Libro and Co earn more money because of ink
Less fresh air bad for development
Improve oral grade.
Homework can also be done digitally. That saves paper
There is often not enough time at school to practice the subject matter to a sufficient extent. Consolidation works better when repeated in the afternoon
homework is not useful because some teachers give it from Friday to Monday and weekend is for relax.
a good exercise for class work
you have to do homework in your free time
You learn something during homework
More homework =more despair =higher likelihood of depression
Helps you write better grades, most of you are always on the computer, cell phone or TV in the afternoon!
Unnecessary
it keeps the brain fit
Many children struggle with homework!
Homework gives you a chance to further your education at home.
You don't know whether to do your homework or study for your tests and schoolwork.
learning material is repeated
You can't concentrate after a long day at school
you can learn a lot
homework is nonsense with sauce
You study for the test at the same time
These are mostly tasks that you will never need later in life.
We make them for ourselves.
Bad students are frustrated
Homework prevents the accident rate
many parents work full-time and have no time to help
one repeats the subject matter
you can write off
oral grade can be improved
One is unmotivated at home
I think the homework is fun and cool!
Homework gives you 1.5 more years of school
you repeat everything again and learn independently
After a long day at school, students need free time for sports and meeting friends, while homework creates further stress.
in-depth knowledge
No one likes homework I mean let's be honest one has no time and I as a student am daily in despair
Homework is very useful and helps to repeat what you have learned.
Homework is unnecessary you have no free time and you can no longer drink with friends or have sex with your girlfriend simple waste of time
If you have not failed a task you can look there (you do not get a homework line).
You can also do the exercises voluntarily
More free time - more PC - health problems
most often they are not made
Many write it off
Exhausting
with homework you learn better and you don't forget.
The wild guys didn't do any homework either so I don't do any either
You get smarter
Homework is the most common reason for family stress
Repetition of the material in this lesson or in the previous one
It's not fair to get an F because you didn't understand the subject and couldn't do your homework.
can also be fun, e.g. writing an essay about yourself
The student can arrange the time for learning by themselves
You learn at your own pace
Stresses children and makes them write off others out of fear
with homework you can improve your grade a lot in the end
There are usually too many assignments, even in the minor subjects, because teachers do not think about the student's many other subjects
good repetition
Who voluntarily does homework
You can prove to the teachers that you can work alone and that you are not dependent on them.
faster problems, depression and stress
The time in school is often not enough to deepen the learning material to a sufficient extent.
Burden for the pupil and pupils also .it is simply to kotzèn one learns also in the school and not at home where the teacher is not .that nerft
Children learn to work independently
you sleep only 4-5 hours a day
On the one hand, dealing with the school material in the afternoon leads to a deepening of knowledge. Particularly in language learning, you can't get anywhere without targeted
Instead of studying for papers, tests, etc., you are busy doing a lot of homework.
Teachers can check if students have understood the topic or if there are still comprehension problems with the homework in order to solve difficulties.
Often, more than half just copy the homework, either at school or they have already asked classmates for the solutions via Whatsapp beforehand.
Promote independence, building work skills and learning strategies.
I think we should decide for ourselves if we need the extra practice or not, e.g. we can just do the houseis where we are not good.
Homework relieves learning
You are already tired after school and just want to sleep and then do homework is too much!
Home exercises consolidate the school material learned in school
i no longer have time to do sports
Through this, students learn to think and be creative on their own, and homework encourages independence, creativity, and personal opinion.
It is not logical that one is forced after the strenuous school still to homework, although one was already 9 hours in the school.is not enough?
You can compare your homework with a completed homework or use the completed homework as a template.
you learn nothing because you have no one to explain it to you!
it is easier (if you go through it again) instead of not going through it
Maybe no time, therefore gets stress embarrassed before the whole class.gets annoyed, maybe beaten by parents.happens then again and again
you can do better on the test
Those who did not understand the topic at school can make additional sheets or learn on their own.
Teachers see your weaknesses and can prepare you for the class work
Make little sense in my opinion, because students who don't understand the subject won't get anywhere on their own. Good students are bored
I, 8th grade, find homework very helpful to see if I really know the subject before I start working on it.
More stress
Homework is for practice and preparation
Burden for the student
You understand more what you have done in class and can become better in a subject where you suck and the subject is then more fun.
I find the homework unnecessary because in class you learn much more. You can discuss it with people who would explain something different
You can improve your grades.
There are even studies that prove that it stresses students and they even get health damage. (e.g. sleep problems, headaches, back pain)
They are a lot of fun
You learn in school
Improve the grade by 15%
You come from school and repeat the whole (unnecessary) at home
I usually understand everything afterwards because I can talk to friends on the phone without transcribing.
You don't feel like doing homework after school anymore
One deepens what one has learned and learns to work independently
When you spend so much time on homework, the student has so little desire to go back to school.
You don't have to do everything at school
At our school you have to complete the Homework. Then we correct them together at school where everything was wrong anyway. Wasted time.
think about the stuff you learned
Less quarrels, because no student likes to sit down at the desk in the afternoon to do homework and whoever does it can do everything anyway.
Reduces the inferiority complex and power-seeking of many teachers
if you realize that you have not understood the material you should take care of it on your own and not burden every student with it.
Homework is a really good review.
There is extremely much to cope with most of the time. Far too much stress, hardly any time to learn for upcoming work or hüs
you can see the diligence and motivation of the students
Too easy huasaufagben are just busywork. It is annoying and robs me of time for my real interests.
You learn more
Home exercises are simply unnecessary, annoying and cause stress,
Without homework , you would be in school longer to understand the subject .
homework takes up a lot of students' free time
You have more free time and can enjoy your life
you have less free time
You learn to manage your time and work independently.
You do the homework as fast as possible to get it over with and thus you don't learn anything.
Homework is important for students to learn a little bit about what they can't do outside of school.
You can not have your hobbies because you have to learn
Promotes own planning from the child
Little time to do anything meaningful.
you learn something
Parents are not teachers and can not know everything !
Improves personal competence
If you ask the parents they usually do not know and is then punished by the teachers that you have not done it.
Some people get smarter
less time for sports and exercise.
Homework is good to review the material and to do well orally
Material costs often too high
If you have paid attention in class, you understand the homework and it does not take long.
you have less free time and you can no longer meet with friends so much
Homework helps to learn the material better.
if you have not understood the material then you should pull it
We become more independent with homework
Just completely unnecessary steals time is no fun
Without homework, many students would not know what to study for a test or what kind of assignments the teacher prefers.
some think they can't do anything if they don't understand it
Homework helps some students to study for a subject, otherwise they cannot complete their Homework. Especially when a teacher controls the Homework.
complete waste of time. nonetheless worsens the grades and brings nothing but stress
Children must learn to work independently.
Always during the lockdown time we always get so many orders. (The orders should correspond to the lengths of the attendance hours, but they don't.)
If you really make an effort then you also learn something
What else to say, except that every Sunday I have to sit for 7 - 12 h for homework
You repeat what you have learned in school. Children must learn to work independently
Homework is exhausting
Our school has only cool teachers there is only digital homework. So no paper is wasted.
Unfair tasks
it's much more relaxing when you don't have homework anymore
Homework is a really good review, but many schools give homework on new topics the student doesn't even know.
One learns thereby
But they have an influence on grades is just shit
some teachers take advantage of being allowed to assign homework and use it, for example, as punishment this type of work should be prohibited
you have less time and therefore less free time in which you could relax.
Homework is not useful overall because it leads to less free time, disadvantage of some students, waste of resources and stress
Often people struggle with homework and not everyone gets the help that is needed. Many children often sit for a long time on homework
The teachers give us the homework so that we can do it in our free time, sorry but my free time is for me.
In the case of homework, most children don't do it all the time themselves anyway, so it has no learning effect.
Unnecessary if you understand everything already in class
It makes very quickly tired and the hands hurt very much in a time.
Only useful if you can do the homework solutions on your own.
Totally unnecessary, no one talks to each other! On some days you get more than you would do in class!
They serve to fix the knowledge.
If you do not understand the homework (and the parents also can not help pus), then you came to ask no teacher
we would not have to have homework every day
It is better to learn for self-reliance.
Teachers cannot control if students do not look directly at the solution sheet, for example.
At some point, the school system will collapse if it continues like this and increase the pressure to perform so that you need a master's degree even for a cleaning job.
Not all students have the right environment for homework
Homework is not just about taking away students' free time. There are also reasons that speak for homework.
You learn nothing it takes a lot of time and you do not understand it
Often get in the way with the other chores that parents may give you, like putting rooms together.
Sometimes homework is not useful because it contains too much unnecessary information.
it is stupid when you have a lot of homework but have to spend as much time as possible studying for a class assignment
Often there is useless homework. Often homework is not checked and students do not know if they have done everything correctly.
The Finnish school system is one of the best and one focus is no homework.
many schools give homework on new topics the student doesn't even know.