“No Assignment Policy”

Giving assignment is part of a teacher’s duty to the students. Last 28 th of August

2019 an article “No home-work Policy billed filed in Senate” was published by a
newspaper company called Philstar. Due to this policy filed, many reactions were
gained from the masses, some agreed and some disagreed on the said topic and the
senate is still working on the proposed bill.
According to the article, Senator Grace Poe filed Senate Bill 966 or the proposed
“No Homework Law” banning teachers to give homework or assignments to students
on weekends encompassing Kinder to Grade 12 students studying in both public and
private school. Under the proposed bill, teachers may only assign homework to
students provided that it be minimal and will not require more than four hours.
As a student there is a part of me that I’m quite happy and sad about. First of all
I’m quiet surprised that the Senate is concern about the time students consume in their
studies. Yes, its true that home works mostly consume our supposed ‘resting time’
and ‘quality time’ for our family from school. Sometimes when we came home tired
from school, instead of resting our mind, we will directly go to the study table and
bring out our notebooks and do our assigned task in a particular subject. That’s why I
somewhat agree to the filed bill, but if we see the whole situation, not only the
teachers will find it hard to adjust to the situation, hence the students too. I’m quite
sad in a sense that I’ve already imagined myself struggling in the classroom because
the teachers will pressure us in finishing a specific task in a short period of time and
also the teachers being troubled in giving grades to the students based from the
activities given in that short period of time. I understand them because my mother is
also a teacher and they follow a certain guideline called ‘lesson plan’.
Overall I’m stuck whether do I agree of disagree on the bill. I hope that the senate
will not only focus on the students point of view but also to the statements of the
teachers and other teaching officials for us to have a successful bill to follow.