TOEFL® essay example: Teachers assign daily homework to students

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Topic: Teachers assign daily homework to students. Do you agree or disagree daily homework is necessary? Why and why not?

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In china, children are not the happiest group as people think they are. Because they are not only children but also students, they have to do heavy assignments composed by teachers every day. Having been suffered from this life for over 12 years, I am finally relieved. If you ask me whether daily homework is needed, I will say "NO" without thinking. In this essay, I'd try to convince you by following reasons.

To begin with, I just think daily assignment is too much for a child. Giving pupils homework, teachers claim, can guarantee the effective teaching. Students are expected to review the imparted knowledge of the day. Let's say "four multiplies five is twenty", in normal cirmustance a math teacher will leave them to write one-hundred times of this simple formula as homework. But this repeated time-consuming task proves nothing but extremely boring. Even a kid with bad performance of school can easily grasp the short "phrase" within five minutes, needless to say one who possess a high intelligence. Thus, it is true to say the students spend previous time and effort on homework without gaining anything.

Another drawback of daily task is that it does harm to students' physical health and mental health. According to a report made by an education department, nearly 60% high school students have been in a state of sub-health. The symptoms include decreasing eyesight, light depression, severe fatigue, medium-intense anxiety and so on. In addition, more and more parents begin to cast doubt on the necessity of homework, saying that every single night, their children are burned out by finishing the numerous papers of each subject. It is a sign that alarms the educators to retrospect the real function of homework and to eliminate the bad effects brought by it.

Finally, I would like to make an assumption: When children are not any longer under the stress of plenty schoolwork, when they are free from the non-humanistic teaching method, and when the time and effort wasted is saved to do something more meaningful, the youthful generation would be able to show an unprecedented creativity, energy and felicity. They would explore the world with their eyes and in their disrable ways; they would discovery something new when playing with peers ; they would come up with original ideas after reading books in which describles the unknown world. When the day comes, they will be, as an old saying goes, the rising sun at eight o'clock.

To conclude, routine assignment，by giving heavy burden to students, should have been replaced for their sake. The educators need to seek out an alternative and more effective way to realize the primary purpose of education.

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