Homework for most students can be beneficial. However, under some conditions, compelling reasons can be mustered to do away with most homework assigned to students. It is difficult to quantify the true amount of improvement to learning and education that is derived from massive amounts of homework.

    The reality is that too much homework works against learning because the amount of effort expended trying to complete the assignments can lead to mental fatigue. If too many hours are consumed, it will bring physical fatigue as well.

    On top of this, if the student failed to understand the material in the classroom, it will only lead to frustration and incomplete work being turned in for grading. Not all students have the luxury of having parents or older siblings who can serve as tutors. By the same token, many parents cannot afford to pay someone else to help with the homework.

    Even if the material is mastered by the time tests and quizzes are given, the low homework scores create a no-win situation if grades are an issue for the student. Often, low homework scores account for half of a students points in grade school and high school. Ironically, this is done to help offset test anxiety or the possibility of poorly constructed test and quiz questions. Instead of being the answer, too many times, homework adds to the problem.

    Because students beyond fourth grade have multiple teachers in many school systems, homework can multiply. Teachers rarely confer with one another about the quantity of homework being given to students. As a school day progresses, students find themselves being slowly buried class by class in a mountain of homework. From middle school through high school, it can be typical for students to end the day with 3 to 5 hours of homework daily.

    Parents tend to be unsympathetic to their own children's needs when family or parental needs are competing for the child's time. Homework may very well be shoved to the end of the priority list when company needs to be entertained or an outing is planned. In fact, it is difficult to argue with this when homework gives the appearance of punishment rather than education.

    Even teachers sometimes resent the expectation of homework. In reality, when a teacher assigns homework for the students tonight, the teacher knows that homework is coming tomorrow night for themselves. The same assignment that carves into the student's freedom also takes the same from the teacher. The same fatigue that makes the students become inefficient takes a toll on the teacher, too.

    There may be some good reasons to assign limited homework for special projects or to reinforce a difficult topic. However, it would be a good plan for schools to better coordinate the amount of homework being sent home with students nightly. Instead of spending time making sure that assignments are conveyed to parents, it would be better to make sure that the amount of homework is reasonable.

    留家庭作業，對大多數學生來說是有益的。當然在一些條件下，強制廢除大量留給學生的家庭作業可以實施。對于學習和教育，大量的家庭作業很難量化真正進步的程度。

    事實證明，過多的家庭作業違反了學習本身，因為學生把大量的努力都用在了完成作業上，導致了精神疲勞，浪費了很多的時間，也帶來了身體的疲勞。

    另外，如果學生在教室里不能理解課本知識，會有挫敗感并且沒有達標后就會被降級。不是所有的學生都有好的父母或年長的兄弟姐妹來輔導他們，出于同樣原因，對于家庭作業，很多的父母不能提供幫助給他們的孩子。

    即使，通過限時測試或測驗來證明學生對課本知識是否精通，在小學和中學，如果各科成績被公布，低的家庭作業得分的學生是無法在競爭中取勝的，因為家庭作業分數占了總分數的一半。很諷刺，這本來是緩解學生考試壓力的或是調解出現貧乏考試或測試可能性，取代了原有的問題，太多的時間，家庭作業，增加了新的問題。

    因為很多學校，四年級以上的學生有好幾個老師，家庭作業也就成倍的增加。老師很少相互問詢各自留給學生的家庭作業的多少，作為學校的發展，學生們發現他們在一節課接一節課的時間里漸漸地被埋在家庭作業的大山中，從初中到高中，花上三到五個小時來做日常的家庭作業是學生們結束一天的代表性的形式。

    當家庭或父母需要爭取孩子的時間時，父母往往不去同情孩子們的需要。當公司需要納入新人時或計劃涉外時，家庭作業成績優秀的學生，將在最終的優先權清單中被推薦。

    老師們有時也會討厭留家庭作業，事實上，今晚老師留家庭作業給學生，對他們來說，明天晚上這些家庭作業就會交到他們手里。同樣的任務帶走了學生的自由，也帶走了老師的自由，同樣的疲勞使學生的學習變得效率低下，老師也同樣。

    對特殊的科目或比較困難的科目來說，留些有限的作業可能是有好處的。當然，學校要有好的計劃去更好的調整每晚留給學生的家庭作業的數量，不再浪費時間，確保留的家庭作業能夠傳達到學生的父母那里，這樣可以更好的保證家庭作業數量的合理性。