High school is another vast world where one can explore the depths of the teenage experience: the hell that lies in the dark, bottomless abyss and the ominous heaven with everlasting light and everything else in between. On top of this perpetual rollercoaster of emotions, there’s this other dark force that looms over the head of every student, the beast that devours all happiness in life: homework. Assignments can be tedious and are stacked on top of a student’s busy lifestyle, leading to sleepless nights and weariness. Homework causes an epidemic of stress and sleep deprivation resulting in overwhelming fatigue and ultimately deemed unneccessary for success.
Students are consumed in extra curricular activities such as sports, clubs, band and others; homework must be done within a small window of time but ultimately tramples into time reserved for sleeping. This dilemma causes tremendous stress due to the fact that grades
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As an example, in the article, “High School Homework: Are American Students Overworked?”, Lauren Miller declares, “However, in countries like the Czech Republic, Japan, and Denmark, which have higher-scoring students, teachers give little homework...more homework clearly does not mean a higher test score”. This manifests that students should be given less homework, allowing more time to study and even enjoy life as oppose to sitting at a desk for 2 to 4 hours. Moreover, Miller also points out “Too much homework is sapping students’ strength, curiosity, and most importantly, their love of learning”. This portrays today’s mindset that many students have and learning is viewed as a hardship one must overcome; the enjoyment of learning is absent in today’s curriculum. Thus, the amount of homework given should be limited or even nonexistent due to being proven ineffective in the learning
The first major step in healing America’s exhausted teenagers is to reduce the amount of homework they receive. Kids from the ages of fourteen to twenty-two alike are expected to play sports, join clubs, and hang out with friends – all on top of an average of three and a half hours of h...
The first major problem with homework is the amount of pressure it exerts on kids. The stress is unpleasant, of course, but this stress also proves detrimental to their health. One problem associated with extraneous stress is sleep deprivation. Sleep is essential to virtually all body functions, both physical and emotional. Kids of the 21st century, however, simply do not receive adequate sleep. In fact, the average teen is only able to sleep seven hours a night, though nine are recommended. No wonder kids doze off in class! Many would love to blame this on the kids themselves. But actually, the most teens can’t sleep until 11 o’clock due to their circadian cycle, regardless of their efforts. And with the help of stressful homework to keep them up even later, those who do get to bed will be kept awake for hours with stress-induced insomnia. In addition, stress serves as a cause ...
Most students believe that they have too much homework and not a sufficient time to finish it on time and it’s killing them. In these two essays “Too Much Homework, Too Little Time” by user name Laxdoublek on Teenink.com and “Satire: Homework Epidemic” by Ellen Keith of Medford High School, have many similarities and differences about the topic homework. Their essays are for everyone to realize just how much homework students in school are given. Keith does a better job getting her point across to the reader than Laxdoublek.
Most kids in school play a sport or does an afterschool activities. Right after school they go to their program and when that program is done they go home. Now, the hours those kids go home could be around 5 to 8. When those kids get home they’re not thinking about homework. They’re thinking about eat and then sleep. Homework doesn’t even come to their mind. Homework comes to their mind when it’s time to go to school and by then it’s already too late to do homework. Kids just don’t have the time to do homework. Coming home after a long day of practice, the kids going to be tired, and the kid has responsibility. The kid has to do his chores, clean his room, fix the bed and after all that he has to help his little sister or brother with their homework and that’s going to take another hour. By the time the kid has time to himself it’s time for him to go to the bed and he can’t go to bed because he has to do his homework and his homework is going to take another hour. That kid is probably going to bed around 10 or 11. He’s not going to sleep. After that he has to repeat the same process all over again. This routine is going to have a huge effect on the kid. This routine is going to affected him in his school work. He didn’t get enough sleep so when his in class he’s going to be sleeping and when his doing his work, he’s not going to be focus and well activate because his brain isn’t awake yet. These are all the effects homework will have on these kids. My friend told me this story about her cousin. She told me has an after school activities and after the after school activities he has to help his little sister and she says ‘’He’s being falling behind on his work because he doesn’t have time to do his homework.’’ I don’t blame him. Teachers love to give a lot of homework and teachers believe kids have time to do all that homework when they actually
To much homework may cause more harm than good. In my sophomore year being a student-athlete was a huge challenge. I would drown in homework every single night after getting home from basketball practice at 5. I would stay up until 1 a.m doing all my homework, when I would get tired I would plead with my sister to help me finish my homework I had left to do. I became stressed with 7 hours of school and then 2 hours of basketball practice and then spending all night working on my assignments. I would go to school exhausted and in fear of how much homework I would receive that day. This new school year as a junior, I chose to challenge myself even more with honor classes, leadership, and an AP class. I knew this year would bring upon more challenges then the previous year, since I had never taken an AP class. I decided to give up basketball because it was taking up too much time off my homework which would deprive me from sleep. Basketball was a sport I dreamed of playing for the rest of my school high school years. I dreamed of being recognized by my coach as “Dulce Melo a center-forward that has been playing since freshman year, who has improved so much, and trained so hard to become part of the girls Polytechnic Basketball team.” I had given up on that dream, I was no longer part of the schools student-athlete association I was just a student. I shattered a dream I had worked so hard for and dreamed of since I was small because of the new up-coming homework loads that were going to come my way. Many students like myself are spending all evening and sometimes night, doing homework. Many teachers give too much homework, and often teachers do not coordinate the quantity given. To much homework can lead to deprivation in leisure act...
High School is referred to the hardest time in a life, and there are many reasons why. Students have to deal with work and activities that seem to pile up on each other. An athletic student has to attend out of school practice, which will stress the student out because he has no time to do homework. A nonathletic student will most likely have an after school job that will take up all their free time for homework. As well, some students are prone to procrastinate and waste their time. All of these different kinds of students are engulfed in stress, and need a solution to help them.
Many students do not enjoy their homework even if it is only studying. These students would not be able to have any free time because there's homework. There should not be homework because classwork is already enough work, it takes time away from other activities, and it does not let kids have independent thinking, so they won’t be able to be hard workers.
Has homework ever weighed you down? If not now then when you were a kid? That’s how many children feel every day of the week. Many students at Round Valley school have been getting an outrageous amount of homework everyday. For example 46.2% of students that were surveyed believe that homework does not help them at all and that it is just busy work that keeps them from playing outside and having fun. I believe that Round valley students should not get homework because they don’t have time to sleep, they have trouble focusing and they have lots of anxiety.
Today, multiple students are easily run-down and cannot catch a break given the excessive load of homework on a daily basis. A study produced by Kyria and Butcher found that “the main sources of stress were academic” in the year of 1993, and this has only increased since then (Alison Owen-Yeates). Students should not have to be hammered down with so much homework, which only adds stress, takes away from family time, and increases sleep deprivation. As displayed in numerous students’ lives, an abundance amount of homework increases their level of stress.
Homework is way to stressful for kids who already have enough to do at school, so why give them work to do at home that just adds on to the headache Known as work? Teachers give out homework because they think it is helping kids education. What they don’t know is that the work they are giving out just overwhelms students who don’t know how to do that work. It also means that some students could possibly be getting bad grades for things that they don’t understand. This is very important to my claim because if we have less homework none of these things will happen to students who don’t understand the topic. What can take more experienced students 5-10 minutes can take others longer time periods to complete the work given. giving students less homework you should receive better quality homework. That paragraph should
Every night, students come home from school with an overwhelming amount of homework. Not only is it stressful, it devours a good amount of free time. On top of that, after staying up late studying and writing essays, we have to wake up extremely early. It’s exhausting and by the time the weekend rolls around we’re relieved. These details like waking up too early or getting too much homework determines how we are as a student and our future. Here at P.C.C.S. we do exactly this; we stay up working on homework and then we wake up sometimes as early as 5 a.m. It’s a huge step in the wrong direction.
Homework and school is the number one leading cause of stress in teens (NPR pg 1). The pressure of achieving high standards while still in high school is a heavy burden. Sadly, many teens often think that not “being the best” or “number one” is the end of the world, especially when the grades count toward college. Many teens strive for the best, and when their best is not good enough, then they often become stressed and turn to alternative ways to achieve their goal. Unfortunately, some of the alternatives teens
Kralovec, author of The End of Homework argues that doing homework during high school has little or no effect on successful study skills of students in college. College students have only a few hours of class a week and lots of daytime hours in which to study. She says the college schedule is nowhere as grueling as in high school. In addition, the average adult does not return home from the office with three or more hours of work to complete (Kralovec). When "busy work" assignments are given carelessly and frequently, it causes students to lose interest in the subject. Negative results can also occur when a student is not able to complete his or her homework. Many times they will resort to copying homework, having others do their assignments, or cheating on tests. Bad habits such as these are likely to follow kids through their lives and have an effect on their moral judgment. With no consequences to these actions students will almost always take the easy way out when it comes to homework
Although homework may seem like drudgery, the hard work that is put into homework may pay off in the long run. In the article, “Does homework really work for students?” Jacqueline Carey, the mother of seventh grade student Micah Carey, stated that “homework gives [students] a good foundation for when they move on further in school” (Johnson). Not only that but according to Donyall Dickey, principle at Murray Hill Middle School, “if students do not acquire things in class, they will acquire them through homework” (Johnson). As we can see homework helps and prepares us for higher grade levels while in primary school that can possibly prepare us for college. It also helps us to remember the materials that were taught in class. Another reason homework can be beneficial is the fact that it can prepare us for tests and the dreadful pop-quiz that a teacher may randomly give us. This fact was proven, according to a 2006 study by Harris Cooper, director of Duke University’s Program in education, in the article “Homework or Not? That is the (Research) Question”. The studies instituted that “students who had homework performed better on class tests compared to those who did not” (DeNisco). Another compelling thing about homework, are the qualities a skills th...
Harris Cooper, a researcher on homework from Duke University, claims that too much homework causes stress. In this I paper will talk about the damaging effects homework has on a child, how homework causes students to dropout of school, and some ideas for an alternative to homework.