Homework should beb banned

Homework, or a homework assignment, is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be

completed outside the class. Common homework assignments may include required reading,
a writingor typing project, mathematical exercises to be completed, information to be reviewed before
a test, or other skills to be practiced.

Affirmative

Generally speaking, homework does not improve academic performance among children and may
improve academic skills among older students, especially lower-achieving students. Homework also
creates stress for students and their parents and reduces the amount of time that students could spend
outdoors, exercising, playing, working, sleeping, or in other activities.

Pros of Homework Bans

1. Homework May Not Improve Academic Outcomes

Unfortunately, as highly debated as homework is, there has been little conclusive or scientific research
indicating its effectiveness. One of the few studies to address this question was conducted in 2006 and
was, in fact, a meta-analysis of previous experiments. The analysis identified some correlation between
homework and achievement, which was stronger for 7th graders and up than for students below the 6th
grade. However, it also acknowledged design flaws in allof the experiments it analyzed and
recommended further research on the topic. Note that the correlation it did find was not equivalent
to causation.

2. Homework Causes Stress and Burnout

Surveys about homework tend to point to one specific issue: stress. One Canadian survey (2009)found
that 23% of elementary school teachers and 45% of high school teachers saw signs of homework-related
stress in their students. Another survey, conducted by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD), of at-risk high school students found that the inability to complete homework was
often cited as a factor in the decision to drop out of school. But you don't need studies to tell you what
you can see for yourself, whether you're a student, educator, or parent: hours of homework every day on
top of a full school schedule and extracurricular activities is a lot to manage, causing some students
to experience stress.

3. Homework Disrupts Family Life

A common argument made by schools that enact homework bans is that they want to give their students
the opportunity to spend more of their free time with their families. And research does suggest that
homework disrupts family life. According to a 1998 survey (as you can see, this debate has been going on
for a long time), nearly 50% of parents reported having serious arguments with their children over
homework, and 34% reported homework as a source of struggle in the home. Researchers Etta Kralovec
and John Buell were particularly concerned that homework time takes away opportunities for parents to
impart their own cultural beliefs and skills to their children.

Opponents

Cons of Homework Bans

1. Homework Fosters Study Skills and Independent Learning

Proponents of keeping homework in schools say that the practice is about more than just reviewing
academic content; it also teaches certain important life skills. It takes discipline and responsibility to
complete one's homework on time rather than giving into the many distractions available to today's
children. And students working on homework by themselves are practicing independent learning,
working out problems on their own. The argument proposes that these skills will be invaluable in a
student's future educational and occupational endeavors.

2. Homework Gives Parents the Opportunity to Get Involved

One of the top three self-reported reasonsteachers have given for assigning homework is ''to show
parents what's being learned in school.'' Parents who want to be involved in their children's education
have the opportunity to inquire about their homework and review their assignments in order to get a
sense not only of what topics are being taught but also of their children's grasp of the topics. Harris
Cooper, a Duke University professor and proponent of homework, gives anecdotal evidence of parents
realizing their children had learning disabilities only when ''homework revealed it to them.''

3. Homework Tracks Student's Grasp of Academic Content

One of the primary purposes of homework for a teacher is to help assess a student's grasp of the
material he or she is learning. While one might argue that in-class assignments and exams can also
achieve the same purpose, tests require at-home preparation and create perhaps even moreanxiety and
stress than homework might. To that end, homework can be a less-pressured way for teachers to assess
student progress in a less-demanding context.

Ultimately, the decision about whether or not to attempt a homework ban, or simply to minimize homework
quantity, lies with each individual district and educator. The most important thing is to consider all of the factors at
hand, such as the ones outlined above. No matter your stance on homework, most likely we can all agree that
some more conclusive research on the topic would be helpful. As of now, in the absence of compelling scientific
evidence, the issue seems to be mostly a matter of opinion.

Prostitution should be legalised.

Journal of Political Economyarticle (2002) about "A Theory of Prostitution"

"Despite being known as the oldest profession, a workable definition has proven elusive. From a
dictionary we learn that prostitution is the 'act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money'.
But a prostitute cannot simply be a woman who sells her body, since 'that is done every day by women
who become wives in order to gain a home and a livelihood'. Promiscuity has been proposed as another
candidate. Medieval canon lawyer Johannes Teutonicus suggested that a woman who had sex with more
than 23,000 men should be classified as a prostitute, although 40 to 60 would also do. However,
promiscuity itself does not turn a woman into a prostitute. Although a vast majority of prostitutes are
promiscuous, most people would agree that sleeping around does not amount to prostitution.
Moreover, any threshold number of sexual partners, be it 40 or 23,000, fails to identify high end
courtesans or call girls as prostitutes, although a reasonable definition would. Instead, we argue that
prostitution is the act of rendering, from the client's point of view, non-reproductive sex against
payment."

Affirmative:

Proponents of legalizing prostitution believe it would reduce crime, improve public health, increase tax
revenue, help people out of poverty, get prostitutes off the streets, and allow consenting adults to make
their own choices.

Statements:

1. Amnesty International, in its May 26, 2016 policy paper titled "Amnesty International Policy on State
Obligations to Respect, Protect, and Fulfil the Human Rights of Sex Workers," available from amnesty.org,
wrote:

"Amnesty International considers that to protect the rights of sex workers, it is necessary not only to
repeal laws which criminalize the sale of sex, but also to repeal those which make the buying of sex from
consenting adults or the organization of sex work (such as prohibitions on renting premises for sex work)
a criminal offence...

The fact that various aspects of sex work are treated as criminal conduct in many countries means that
sex workers cannot rely on support or protection from the police. For many sex workers, reporting
crimes experienced during the course of their work means putting themselves at risk of criminalization
and/or penalization on the basis of their involvement in sex work, seizure of their earnings, potential loss
of their livelihood through related sanctions and/or monitoring by the police to detect their clients. As a
result, sex workers are frequently unable to seek redress for crimes committed against them, thereby
offering impunity to perpetrators. In addition, the stigmatized and criminalized status that sex workers
experience gives law enforcement officials in many countries the scope to harass, extort and perpetrate
physical and sexual violence against them, also with impunity. When they are not threatened with
criminalization/penalization, sex workers are better able to collaborate with law enforcement to identify
perpetrators of violence and abuse, including human trafficking."

May 26, 2016 - Amnesty Intenational

2. Criminalisation does not help people get out of prostitution and legalisation does not trap them in it.
As a society we can choose whether to make it easier for people to escape prostitution or whether to
make life harder for those trapped in it.

I have always believed that any person selling sex has a right to demand whatever resources it would
take for them to leave prostitution into a situation that they can realistically thrive and grow in."

3. Some folks disapprove of the immoral nature of sex for sale and, perhaps, rightfully so. But judging
morality is for churches, employers, family members and peers. It should not be a matter for law
enforcement, court dockets and jail cells, costing the taxpayer dearly, every day, every month, every
year...

Prostitution flourishes in the black market that would not exist if brothels and hookers were legitimized,
licensed, medically inspected, zoned and taxed. Like drugs, gambling and other crimes of morality, or
alcohol prohibition of years past, the black market is nourished by draconian laws that forever fail to
accomplish its intended purpose.

In Indonesia

Legalizing prostitution through an appropriate, strong and measurable policy or regulation and
supported by other regulations / policies and also classifying that prostitution is an "entertainment
service", may produce several benefits for the perpetrators, providers, the community and the country.
These benefits are as follows:

1. By the legalization of prostitution (with strict and well-implemented rules and witnesses), it will be a
good solution to localize the places of prostitution which have been a part of the people's unrest (the
majority of these groups) who are around prostitution. With this legalization it will also localize CSWs
that are scattered on several roads that are considered by the majority to be part of public unrest and
disturb the beauty and comfort of the city so that it can improve the face of the city.

2. the legalization of prostitution (legalization followed by localization of prostitution places), it will be

easier for couples (both women and men) to find a partner who is having an affair (CSW as an affair).

3. the legalization of prostitution, it will be a good solution to localize acts deemed "taboo and immoral"
by the community.

4. the legalization and localization of prostitution (application of high taxes as entertainment services),
will increase state revenue. Seeing the real conditions in big cities, the large size of the "prostitution"
market and the increasing number of "transit" hotels indicate that there is a large amount of potential
acceptance that can be received by the state.

5. By the legalization of prostitution, it will be easier for law enforcement officials to conduct surveillance
and enforcement. This will work if the capacity and accountability of the apparatus for the
implementation of regulations run well and on the rails that should be (there is no word of compromise).
That way (strict rules and reliable implementing / apparatus without compromise) will further facilitate
the control and localization of public unrest due to the practice of prostitution in any place.
With several terms and conditions, as follow:

i). Regulations / Laws that underpin the legalization of prostitution must be strict, strong, decisive,
precise and unbiased,

ii). Implementers / state apparatus both central and regional must have a strong and uncompromising
commitment to the implementation of rules and sanctions that have been arranged and have a strong
responsibility for the implementation of the rules,

iii). The oversight function must be carried out jointly between the state apparatus and the public,

iv). High taxation on "entertainment prostitution services" (as is the case with cigarette excise, to reduce
excessive negative excesses on society as a whole,

v). Decisive action for anyone who violates the rules that have been set and impose severe sanctions
against violators of the rules must be carried out properly and without compromise.

Opponents:

Opponents believe that legalizing prostitution would lead to increases in sexually transmitted diseases
such as AIDS, global human trafficking, and violent crime including rape and homicide. They contend that
prostitution is inherently immoral, commercially exploitative, empowers the criminal underworld, and
promotes the repression of women by men.

1. All religions "forbid" prostitution. policies that legalize prostitution will provide a very large space for
violations of religious teachings (this argument is based on religious understanding)

2. With legalization, some people (the majority) are opposed to "NKRI as a country with a Godhead".

3. The existence of prostitution anywhere is society's betrayal of women, especially those who are
marginalized and vulnerable because of their sex, their ethnicity, their poverty, and their history of abuse
and neglect. Prostitution is sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, often torture. Women in prostitution
face a statistical probability of weekly rape, like domestic violence taken to the extreme.

Control access to the internet

Affirmative

People seem to think regulation of the internet violates some principal of freedom, like free speech. Well
when you have a supreme court that ludicrously equates pornography with free speech this is an
understandable, but wrong position. The government used to be in the business of protecting the base
unit of society, the family. Television and movies were regulated for content and with good reason--look
what we have now without that oversight. We forget that freedom requires responsible behavior—we
confuse liberty with license, thinking that freedom means you can do anything you want. You can’t. Not
if you want a healthy civil society. Human beings as a whole and (Americans in particular) are incapable
of self-regulation. People will do anything they think they can get away with and more. One of the
fundamental purposes of government is to regulate the behavior of society to ensure domestic order—
that is why we have laws. The internet is a conduit touching all levels of society and when that conduit
spews barbarism etc. then eventually society will reflect that—you can see it already if you know what to
look for (hint it’s the elephant in the living room). We now have access to more information than we did
in the entire history of mankind before the internet, yet we are also more ignorant and functionally
illiterate that ever before--we do nothing constructive with all that knowledge. Putting pornography and
other harmful content out of reach of our children is not a violation of anyone’s rights. The problem in
America now is not necessarily the internet; it is we have no concept of the proper exercise of legitimate
authority. The funny thing is people seem to be angry at the idea of regulating things like pornography
but no one cares that the government already regulates all our electronic communication by spying on
us. If you really care about freedom (as opposed to license) then get angry about the NSA.

Opponent

Freedom will be terminated

If the government regulated the Internet, then it will cause MAJOR problems with wanting freedom.
What I mean is that in order to get on websites that you frequently visit, you'll have to pay the
government extra money in order to do so. Probably even more than once! So essentially, they'll put a
tax on major websites like YouTube and Facebook. And minor websites (with the chance that one may be
owned by a family member or even you) WILL BE COMPLETELY WIPED OFF CYBERSPACE!!!!! And you
might have to pay MORE money than usual: some for keeping your website up, and the rest to browse it.
IT MIGHT STILL BE MORE THAN ONCE!!!!! This is why I believe that the government cannot be allowed to
regulate the Internet: LOADS of taxes.

In this case, who's supposed to regulate internet? Is this government? it would never work. If this are
corporations - then we automatically give it up into their greedy hands - and they'll make sure to make
their profit on our basic right.

I won't claim that internet resembles our right to free speech because it's so much more. It's rather our
right to free knowledge and information that it provides. internet such as our own mouth. We have a
mouth - does it need to be regulated by anything else then beholder? No it doesn't. You choose what
you say - and it's better something coherent. I would also avoid comparing internet regulation to
parental control, because parental control deals with your personal computer, but internet is an
extremely powerful thing to be controlled by both bureaucratic organization, or greedy Scrooge. for
those parents who want to stop their children from watching porn - it will never succeed. in their age, If
they really want it - they'll find the way to do it.

And lastly, some people say that it needs to be regulated because of the security reasons. I'd agree with
this, however, as it's been proven, government is not able to successfully do it. All they can do is collect
our emails or calls, and use their base when there's a need.