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Persuasive Essay On Homework

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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

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