Some people believe that school children should not be given homework by their teachers whereas others argue that homework plays an important role in the education of children Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion

These days, homework is becoming a norm to students in many countries, but people’s opinions are different as to whether or not school children should be given homework. Although there are some strong arguments against giving homework, I still believe that it is a necessary aspect of education.

There are several reasons why people might think that homework is an unnecessary burden on children. First, homework does nothing to improve educational outcomes. For example, Countries such as Finland, where school children are not given homework, regularly top international educational league tables and outperform countries where setting homework is normal. Second, many parents would agree that the school day is already long enough, and leaves their children too tired to do further study when they return home. Besides, it shows that play time is just as beneficial as study time from the perspective of brain development.

In spite of the above arguments, I support the view that homework has an important role to play in the schooling of children. The main purpose of homework is that it encourages independent learning and problem solving, as children are challenged to work through tasks alone and at their own pace. In doing so, students must apply the knowledge that they have learnt in the classroom. For example, by doing mathematics exercises at home, students consolidate their understanding of the concept taught by their teacher at school.

In conclusion, homework certainly has its drawbacks, but I believe that the benefits outweigh them. By doing homework regularly, students can develop both their learning skills and knowledge.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 7, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'days'' or 'day's'?
Suggestion: days'; day's
These days homework is becoming a norm to students...
^^^^
Line 2, column 105, Rule ID: WHETHER[4]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; whether or not; as to whether
...ries but peoples opinions are different as to whether or not school children should be given homewor...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e perspective of brain development In spite of the above arguments I suppor...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, if, second, so, still, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, in spite of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1372.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 260.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27692307692 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68097615359 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.584615384615 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 415.8 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 16.0721442886 6% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 260.0 20.2975951904 1281% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.4020404114 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1372.0 106.682146367 1286% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 260.0 20.7667163134 1252% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 99.0 7.06120827912 1402% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.446946349482 0.244688304435 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.446946349482 0.084324248473 530% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0667982634062 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261113532771 0.151304729494 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0852913092222 0.056905535591 150% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 133.4 13.0946893788 1019% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -192.42 50.2224549098 -383% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.44779559118 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 104.7 11.3001002004 927% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 14.82 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 19.75 8.58950901804 230% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 53.0 78.4519038076 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 58.0 9.78957915832 592% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 106.0 10.1190380762 1048% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 58.0 10.7795591182 538% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 7, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'days'' or 'day's'?
Suggestion: days'; day's
These days homework is becoming a norm to students...
^^^^
Line 2, column 105, Rule ID: WHETHER[4]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; whether or not; as to whether
...ries but peoples opinions are different as to whether or not school children should be given homewor...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e perspective of brain development In spite of the above arguments I suppor...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, if, second, so, still, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, in spite of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1372.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 260.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27692307692 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68097615359 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.584615384615 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 415.8 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 16.0721442886 6% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 260.0 20.2975951904 1281% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.4020404114 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1372.0 106.682146367 1286% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 260.0 20.7667163134 1252% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 99.0 7.06120827912 1402% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.446946349482 0.244688304435 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.446946349482 0.084324248473 530% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0667982634062 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261113532771 0.151304729494 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0852913092222 0.056905535591 150% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 133.4 13.0946893788 1019% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -192.42 50.2224549098 -383% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.44779559118 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 104.7 11.3001002004 927% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 14.82 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 19.75 8.58950901804 230% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 53.0 78.4519038076 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 58.0 9.78957915832 592% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 106.0 10.1190380762 1048% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 58.0 10.7795591182 538% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.