People always argue whether or not homework is beneficial for students and whether teachers should even assign it in the first place. Teachers should assign homework but only if it enriches the student’s learning and is not busy work. In her article “The Trouble With Homework”, Annie Murphy Paul explains that “enriching children’s classroom learning requires making homework not shorter or longer, but smarter.” Homework should also only be assigned to high school students. There is no reason for elementary school students to have piles of homework when they are only learning the basics of every subject, which shouldn’t require tons of homework to understand. Alfie Kohn states in his article, “Down With Homework”, that “there is no evidence to
