Essay: Duties vs. hobbies

In Thinking Skills, we have been given a task which consist on writing an essay with the following topic:

Some people believe that children should not be given homework everyday, while others believe that they must get homework frequently in order to be successful at school. Discuss both sides and give your opinion.

Essay: Duties vs. hobbies

Nowadays, it is a great debate if children at school should be given homework or not. Up to which point is it convenient to send homework to students?

On the one hand, I agree that children should be given homework everyday in order to be successful at school due to different issues. School assignments would make students to practice and to master a subject, making their minds exercise. While more activities they do about a subject, the more they will acknowledge. It also helps children to focus and practice on how to manage their times and prioritize activities. In their near future, kids will grow and will probably assist to the university, were the quantity of things given to study and practical works are incremented in an unbelievable way. If they already know how to manage their times as they thit in school with homework, they wouldn´t have almost no trouble on adjusting to it.

On the other hand, most kids loathe doing homework because it limits the free-time they have. After being a couple of hours in school, kids might need a time for themselves in order to waste it on their hobbies, on their passions or even to rest after a tiring day. Instead, they have to get home and do homework, which let them almost no time for living their lives as they want to. What´s more, an excess of homework may lead children into stress, affecting the kid's life.

In conclusion, I personally think, although homework might be stressing to children, it is necessary in order to exercise their minds and don't lose their track in school. This should be done as long as the tasks given to students are regulated in such a way they can waste time in their hobbies and in homework.