Throughout the school year, students are given homework almost every day. Some days there is more homework than other days. Most students are doing other activities outside of school, this means that we might not have time for homework every day. I know I'm not the only one who has had to miss fun activities for studying, finishing homework or working on a project. A 2007 Metlife study found that “45 percent of students in grades three to 12 spend more than an hour a night doing homework, including the six percent of students who report spending more than three hours a night on their homework.”
I personally have soccer every day, sometimes I have two practices a day. I get home late, I am tired and then I have to homework. After a long day, we are tired, we just want to relax and not do homework because we can't focus on homework when we are tired. When we have homework to do and it is already late, we have to stay up late to finish all of it. More than 90% of teens are not getting enough sleep on school nights. An Arizona study shows that half of the students are getting half the amount of sleep he used to get. Doctors recommend that teens should be getting 8 ½-10 hours of sleep a night. Also, when students don't finish their homework or don't think they did well on something then they are going to be thinking about and worrying about it all night long and then won’t fall asleep because they can't stop thinking about it. I believe that we should do more class work and then what we don't finish should be homework because we won't have as much but we are still learning and doing the work instead of piling it all on for homework. Too much homework can lead to sleep loss.
Secondly, teenagers are getting too much homework that leads to them not being able to spend time with the people that they love. They might be invited to hang out with their friends or have a family activity and they have to miss out of the fun because they have to finish homework. A survey by the University of Phoenix in 2013 states “high school students had an average of 17.5 hours of homework every week and 3.5 hours from each teacher per week.” We could be missing out on lifetime memories. But you're still stuck at home doing your
Assigning homework to student athletes can harm their performance in school and in their sport. One of my reasons why homework should not be assigned, is that the students don’t have the extra time to complete the homework. Another reason why homework should not be assigned includes, the students need to get enough sleep for school the next day. My final reason, if homework is assigned it should not be too much and it should not take longer than a half an hour to complete. In conclusion, homework should not be assigned to student athletes on game day.
After a long day of school, students are tired, stressed, and overworked. This is often something that is ignored when it comes to students of all ages. Homework provides a heavy load that can add additional stress and time on a student’s shoulders. Schools should be making sure that students are receiving enough work throughout the day, to make sure kids do not have the worry of homework when school is over. Students who receive lots of homework, may not have enough time in the evenings to be around family, friends and enjoy the rest of their day.
High school students feel more stress than working adults, and children are beginning to feel aversion towards learning. Both adolescents and children are at risk of health issues due to anxiety and less time is spent with family, playing, and sleeping. The cause for all of this is too much homework that is suffocating students. Homework causes students to sleep less, have more stress, and even forces students to give up extracurricular activities. These negative results can be improved by reducing the homework load.
The Agency's Stress in America survey found that 30% of teens reported feeling sad or depressed due to stress, 31% felt overwhelmed, 36% states stress makes them tired, and 23% said that they have skipped meals because of stress. Aren't teens supposed to be living fun,stress free lives? Unfortunately that's not the case. Middle school students report having 60-90 minutes of homework each night and 50% of student grades 7-12 say they have an hour or more of homework each night according the the MetLife survey of American Teachers. Many students participate in extracurricular activities and end up finishing homework late,therefore cutting into their sleep time.
The quality of students’ homework is much more important than the quantity of students homework and data collected during recent studies has proven that homework is not making the grade. “. . . American students are entangled in the middle of international academic rankings: 17th in reading, 23rd in science, and 31st in math according to the most recent results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)” (Murphy-Paul). Students should not be given an excessive amount of homework because the pressure of having to complete excessive amounts of homework every night is quite daunting for most students. Knowing how much homework is the right amount correlates with age and grade. An 8th grade student should not be given a myriad of homework that would keep her awake past midnight completing assignments. In any case, there should be a limit on the amount of homework all teachers give to students because an excessive amount of homework would eventually cause students to become uninterested in school and learning, which could result in poor test scores and low ranks in international academic rankings. In order for students to carry out daily activities throughout the day restfully, teachers must be able to provide homework that does not exceed the appropriate amount of time needed to complete it, which is based on grade level. If teachers are too clueless of a students health due to excessive amounts of homework, many students will develop cases of sleep
People expect so much out of teenagers, especially the students who are involved in sports and maintain a job throughout the school year. They are expected to attend classes and their extracurricular activities; they have to make it to work on time, finish their homework, do their studies, and on top of that, get enough sleep at night. This is the kind of busy schedule students uphold in their week and it’s overwhelming for them. It causes stress and exhaustion, and people still expect them to do well and keep up with everything. Is this how we want students to feel all the time? Sure we want them to accomplish goals and be the best they can be, but one way to relieve some stress is less homework. When they come home from work or sports
In many American households, homework is the main cause of stress. Some people think that America is not so well and adding more homework will fix that problem. A study by Indiana University found that students who do more homework tend to get higher scores on standardized tests” (“Do Kids Need Homework?”). “Plus, part of growing up is learning to balance outside activities and the demands of schoolwork” (“Should Parents Help Kids With Homework?). Teachers have their reasons as well. “Teachers say homework is important in the learning process and can help kids develop study and organizational skills. They say kids need to practice what they've learned in school so that the material sticks in their brain” (Strauss). “Having too much homework
What the public is concerned about is if homework should even be assigned? Homework was contrived to prepare students and help them engage them in the content being taught. Homework also enacts time management skills and responsibility of growing young adults. Although the debate about if homework should be given minimally or in discretion and that homework has no verified benefits still stands. Homework is necessary for causing students to be engaged in the content taught and delivers time management skills for the future.
With Christmas quickly approaching, I sincerely feel compelled to reach out to those of you who may be experiencing difficult emotions due to the absence of loved ones. Holidays are often catalysts for such instances of despair and longing as unfortunately, I, myself, know all too well. I lost both my husband and my father within the past three years, and while I’ve prevailed in becoming stronger and more determined than I ever thought possible, this time of year never fails to unearth the raw pain that permanently resides just beneath the surface. So, from the deepest regions of my heart, my pledge to you is this…if any of you, whether it be day or night, ever need an empathetic ear or shoulder, I’m merely an email, message or phone call
For one thing, homework may actually make it harder to learn. Many people say that the more sleep you get, the more your brain rests. When you are rested, it is easier to focus on learning. On school days it is difficult to get the rest you need. Many students get up at 5:30 in the morning to get ready and make it to school by 7:20. After spending many hours learning in school, they return home to do homework. Some students also participate in sports after school that take up much of their time. By the
Picture this, Bailey sits on her bed, surrounded by multiple folders, and dozens of papers everywhere. Her room looked like a bomb went off. She has to dig through all of these things just to find her pencil. Her chromebook is out of its case, and Bailey is hard at work, typing away. Her room is brightly lit by her overhead light, and a lamp. This way she can see all of her papers clearly. Bailey is trying to finish all of her homework at a decent time. This student is stressing out over her boatload of homework, hoping she can get it all done. She is as busy as a bee. She hears her mom calling from downstairs, “Bailey it’s time for dinner,” she responds with,
Having been going to school for 8 years now, I know what it’s like to have loads of homework that keep me up late each night. I know that not only is this unhealthy for me, but that it is also a struggle for my parents who work hard everyday and need their sleep. There is a simple solution to this though. That solution is that kids should have less homework. Not only because it is a struggle for parents, but because it also causes kids to struggle with obesity from sitting too much and causes kids to receive less sleep.
A study conducted by Stanford University found that students in middle to high income school districts receive on average three hours of homework every night. After an extensive day brimming with classes who would yearn to go home and immediately undertake this additional burden of homework? Unfortunately for most students this is precisely what they have to do; this is particularly challenging for those who partake in extracurricular activities. These students stay up later to study, otherwise the abundance of homework handed out by teachers would never get completed. The overload of homework students receive on a daily basis is detrimental to their well being, for it results in a debilitating surge of stress levels, an inadequate development of life skills, and deprivation of necessary sleep.
Homework is a good way to show what you learned in school and see what you learned. Homework is beneficial to students because it helps them with their their time management skills later on in life. Management skills will help them to see what they learned in school and see if they can do it at home. Another way homework is beneficial because it teachers students doing their own work independently. Homework is beneficial to students because it is a key to success and a key to adulthood in the future
The majority of students have, at one point or another, wished for less homework. For some student’s homework is not a big issue but for other students it can take hours and even days to do all their homework. That wasted time could be used for enjoyment or learning life skills instead of homework. Nine in ten high school students reported feeling stressed about homework (Galloway 4). So, should students get less homework? Yes, students should receive less homework because it improves their well-being by reducing stress and its impacts on health, increasing leisure time, and showing that homework does not affect grades significantly.