Homework

Homework what every student thinks is ridiculous but most teachers even after school want to stress students. "Homework is pointless, we are in school for 8 hours then you give us another 2-3 hours of homework, that's rediculous" said Alyssa Slade junior at Tantasqua. It's not only you Alyssa many others not only in our school but outside of our school think that, and they are making a difference about it. In 2013/14 the Fentress County School District in Tennessee announced that it would enforce a district-wide ban on graded homework assignments. Administrators say that how many students had the lack of supplies at home to do there homework. 65-70% of students needed funding for lunch, so it was settled that students shouldn't get penalized for not doing take home assignments. “We don’t want kids to be unfairly penalized for their work because they don’t have the resources or support they need at home,” explained Randy Clark, Fentress County Schools’ Curriculum and Instruction Supervisor. This means that now homework is not counted twords the students grade. There is a lot of  controversy bet eww no having homework and not. Sixth grade teacher  Tammy Linder, Is one who doesn't agree with this new policy. “Students have not had that daily homework practice in any subject that keeps the concepts ‘alive’ and moving in their brains, so that means that much of the practice time and teaching time and testing time had to come during the class time each day,” Linder says. The principal of Gaithersburg Elementary in Maryland decided to ask students to spend only 30 minutes on reading a night. This debate between homework or not is a huge deal, weather it will be brought to order or not, we may never know. What do you think should we have homework?Xoxo~ Tanty girl.