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Do Kids Really Need Homework?

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In this February 2009 interview from CBS's "Assignment America," Ben Berrafato, an 11-year-old in the 5th grade says homework is tantamount to slavery. "Homework is assigned to students like me without our permission, thus homework is slavery. Slavery was abolished with the passing of the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, so every school in America has been illegally run for the past 143 years," Berrafato says. 

Ben BerrafatoWatch the video. 

Do you think Berrafato makes a reasonable point? Is there any way around the homework problem? Do kids really need homework?

 

Source: CBS News. (2009, February, 20). Do kids really need homework? Assignment America. Available from http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4817006n.
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