Prime Minister: Honorable panel of educators, time keeper, colleagues, opposition and people of the floor. This house believes that homework should be banned since it has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school. Before that, I want to give the definition of homework. Homework, simply, is the work that teachers give their students to do at home. Homework produces large amount of pointless work of little educational value, but marking it ties up much of teachers’ time. This leaves teachers tired and with little time to prepare more effective, inspiring lessons. In addition, the children do enough in school. Giving them homework is like putting much pressure on children to grow up quickly. They do not get the time to rest, have fun and be children. That’s why we believe that homework should be banned. Leader of Opposition: It’s not true that homework has little education value. Homework, indeed, is a vital and valuable part of education. There are only a few hours in each school day – not enough time to cover properly all the subjects children need to study. Setting homework extends study beyond school hours, allowing a wider and deeper education. It also makes the best use of teachers, who can spend lesson time teaching rather than just supervising individual work that could be done at home. Tasks such as reading, writing essays, researching, doing maths problems, etc. are best done at home, away from the distractions of other students. As for the marking, teachers accept that marking student work is an important part of their job. Well planned homework should not take so long to mark that the rest of their job suffers, and it can inform their understanding of their students, helping them design new activities to engage and stretch them. And for the children time for playing. If you think the school is giving a lot of homework, that should be changed, and it should be lessened, but not banned. If it’s banned, then what are they going to do all day? Just play with no intellectual mind whatsoever? How will that prepare them for the real world? After all, school is a place of education, and if the homework is given correctly and efficiently, it shouldn’t be a problem. Why does the opposition think that homework is essentially needed in education?

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Prime Minister:

Honorable panel of educators, time keeper, colleagues, opposition and people of the floor. This house believes that homework should be banned since it has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school. Before that, I want to give the definition of homework. Homework, simply, is the work that teachers give their students to do at home.

Homework produces large amount of pointless work of little educational value, but marking it ties up much of teachers’ time. This leaves teachers tired and with little time to prepare more effective, inspiring lessons. In addition, the children do enough in school. Giving them homework is like putting much pressure on children to grow up quickly. They do not get the time to rest, have fun and be children. That’s why we believe that homework should be banned.

Leader of Opposition:

It’s not true that homework has little education value. Homework, indeed, is a vital and valuable part of education. There are only a few hours in each school day – not enough time to cover properly all the subjects children need to study. Setting homework extends study beyond school hours, allowing a wider and deeper education. It also makes the best use of teachers, who can spend lesson time teaching rather than just supervising individual work that could be done at home. Tasks such as reading, writing essays, researching, doing maths problems, etc. are best done at home, away from the distractions of other students.

As for the marking, teachers accept that marking student work is an important part of their job. Well planned homework should not take so long to mark that the rest of their job suffers, and it can inform their understanding of their students, helping them design new activities to engage and stretch them.

And for the children time for playing. If you think the school is giving a lot of homework, that should be changed, and it should be lessened, but not banned. If it’s banned, then what are they going to do all day? Just play with no intellectual mind whatsoever? How will that prepare them for the real world? After all, school is a place of education, and if the homework is given correctly and efficiently, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Why does the opposition think that homework is essentially needed in education?

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