Should Homework Be Abolished?

It is very easy to answer ‘yes’ to the above question, especially when one is loaded with homework up to the neck. However I will not say that homework should be abolished. It is useful in many ways, I will say that homework should be given discreetly.
Every teacher ought to realize that other teachers are also giving homework. So if five different teachers come into the class and all of them give us homework, then we will have five different sets of homework to do!
It is already a full-time job concentrating on what each teacher tells us in class. So by the time we reach home, all we want to do is to flop into bed and take a nice nap. The nap normally is filled with dreams about unfinished homework and question. After lunch it is usually back to work trying to finish the assignments or folio projects before evening comes and we go out to play or rest for a while.
However, the homework cannot be done in one sitting. This is especially so when we get stuck in mathematics problem and can see no way through. So after homework and try to do work once again to complete the homework and try to do some studying as well. Sometimes the going gets so overwhelming that the only sane thing left to do is to quit and do some-thing else, like watching television or playing computer games(example from me ,hacking, cracking, surfing the internet.)
This year, “fortunately”, most of our teachers are very “understanding”. They realize that we are sitting for the PMR examinations. So they give us homework. Our geography teacher is the best, his name was Mr. Ooi Chong Oui. He seldom give us homework and he always ask us the time (example: “what time is it now?” say Mr. Ooi. Then a student reply: “it is only left 5 minutes Sir” then he continue: “ok you all can rest now”. What a “wonderful” teacher we thought. ) Bless him for his kindness.
Science is an entirely different matter. Our teacher believes us in grinding us with as many problems as possible. I “appreciate” the fact that practice make perfect in science. However I wish that she could take it easy a little bit so that we do not feel so tense and overworked. It is necessary to do homework in science but it is unnecessary to do excessive amounts of it. This is where the discretion of the teacher is most important. But who am I to comment on what is considered discreet or not? It is totally up to the teacher. Many of my classmates hate science because all the homework that the teacher gave. Thus many of them failed at the test (but not included me because I pro at science. Hehe….). They simply not bothered anymore with it. They just sit quietly every time they are chastised and punished by the fuming teacher for not doing her homework (example of her punishment: “do you have heart attack or asthma?” as her. “No” the student reply. “ok now pumping 10 times” continue by her. ). They show no concern at all for the result.
Doing homework is never a pleasant affair. If the volume of homework is manageable then they can be done efficiently and quickly. In this way we do learn from our labour. If the homework is overwhelming then we learn nothing expect that we are simply fed up. I believe then that we should not abolished homework completely. The best thing to do is for the teacher to seriously consider the student’s welfare before any homework is given. Homework should be aid the student to learn not do the opposite. Homework look like food, if taken in moderate quantities, it nourishes, but if taken in excessive amount, it might kill person.(but I hope there will be no homework given by the teachers again, and all the exam also should be abolished. Hahaha…)