Homework fetishism is suffocating students

Let me state this right from the start: I am not an educator who is entirely against homework. Homework is an element that contributes to students gaining responsibility, reinforcing the information they have learned, and making what they have learned permanent. In these respects, homework is necessary in education. What is unnecessary is homework that is assigned in excessive amounts, creating a burden on students and failing to serve a purpose.

Unfortunately, most teachers act as if students are only responsible for their own subject. The Turkish teacher, the math teacher, and the science teacher can all assign large amounts of homework at the same time. Naturally, students are crushed under the weight of these assignments. Teachers assign homework to students without being aware of what others are doing. However, the amount of homework should be determined in coordination with the other teachers entering that classroom, and assignments should be given by considering how much of a workload students can handle. But unfortunately, because this is not done, students are crushed under the weight of plenty of homework from different subjects.

So, what is the result of this? Children do their homework in a sloppy manner just to get it finished. Especially if the homework is given in a test format, they mark the options without even reading the questions to complete the assignments. Well, don't teachers check these carelessly done assignments and explain the mistakes? Unfortunately, the answer to this question is largely no. Most teachers also check the assignments superficially and move on. Because for them, too, it is quite difficult to check the homework of so many students.

In other words, as you can see, the homework business proceeds in a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" fashion, just for the sake of appearances. Do teachers not know that such homework is unnecessary and provides no benefit? Of course they do. So why is this homework still assigned? Parents and school administrators, especially in private schools, put pressure on teachers by saying, "give plenty of homework." It reaches a point where a perception is created that the more homework you give, the better a teacher you are. Then teachers enter a homework race, and it is the students who suffer.

Most parents make suggestions to teachers on this matter, thinking that a student who does a lot of homework will be more successful. In the end, we are faced with homework that serves no purpose, suffocates the student, and makes them resent school and learning. Yet, the ideal is to assign homework in amounts that students can do without getting exhausted. Only in this way can the expected necessary efficiency be achieved. Parents, in particular, should act consciously in this regard and be in consultation with teachers.

As long as this homework fetishism, especially in private schools and tutoring centers, does not come to an end, it will cause the new generation, whose bond with school we already observe to be increasingly broken, to drift even further away from school and learning.