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Why Do Kids Have Homework?

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Don’t you think kids do a lot of work in school, so why do they have to do even more at home? Are we expecting too much from kids because teachers are trying fit all this work in one day. If we want a kids to be happy and not mad then there should be no homework. Sometimes kids have conflicts and can’t go because of homework and that's not fair. Kids get stressed out over homework. So if there so many reasons why there should be any homework then why is it still here!

A major reason why we are expecting too much from kids is because teachers are trying to jam a whole lesson in one day and that takes kids free time away. Also if we can't cannot fit all the work we need in a 6 or 7 hour day then we are expecting too much from kids. What is the reason of them expecting too much from us if there really is no evidence demonstrated that homework helps students below high school age. Scientist have discovered that kids are now having more work than ever. So I went around asking my classmates and Drew Henry said ‘’ sometimes I feel stressed out and sometimes I don’t because 25% of my teachers expect a lot out of me and 75% don’t.’’ This agrees with me that teachers expect too much from kids.

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So sometimes homework is stressful children and you don’t want that. A study by a group of Australian researchers found the average scores of kids who have spent a lot of time of homework, showed clearly that when more time was spent on homework students were getting lower scores. Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at stanford university found out kids stressing over homework has some bad effects like students lives outside of school,including friends and family,and other activities. Also Tommy Convey said ‘’sometimes I will stress over homework and because of that I can’t go outside. This proves that kids get stressed out over

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