Kids all over the world are exhausting their brains, with homework. Teachers should not give out enormous amounts of homework because the cons of having too much homework outweigh the pros. Many students and researchers believe that homework is pointless and has no purpose. Students do not have the amount of time necessary needed for homework available to them with all the other activities going on in their lives. The average student spends about seven hours on homework a week. Seven hours of homework per week are too much for a student to handle, considering that students are supposed to sleep eight hours a day, go to school, and have things to do outside of school. Too much homework is known to give students stress. Also, too much homework has been found to stop a student’s motivation to learn because a student may become overwhelmed. Many people believe homework is a positive exercise to practice, but in my opinion homework has more negative effects than positive effects. …show more content…
A January 2007 report by the American Academy of Pediatrics said that a student’s lack of time could lead to depression. The report suggests that one of the reasons of kids becoming depressed is that they “work too hard and play too little.” Students get a lack of time when they are assigned too much homework and have no time for other activities. Many students have activities they may want to participate in. Rachel Myrick, a teacher at Myers Park High School says “Add extracurricular activities, athletics, studying, and social time, and it’s a wonder teens can function, it all.” Rachel Myrick is referring to homework and the huge amount of homework given to students that is not
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
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
There should not be homework for students. For starters, homework pushes families further apart from each other. Secondly, homework causes kids to actually do worse on schoolwork and tests. Lastly, homework causes kids to get stressed out and depressed because they have to go home and do homework instead of have there own free time. Those are a few reasons why students should not have homework.
"I didn’t feel [stressed] until I was in my 30’s. It hurts my feelings that my daughter feels that way at eleven" (Ratnesar 313). This statement describes the intense issue facing the American Education System today. More and more students are spending a lot of out of school time on enormous amounts of homework. The overabundance of homework is putting pressure on the students, along with their parents. Our nation has steadily focused on after school studying to the point of possible exhaustion. In this paper, I will attempt to explain how educators are relying on homework as the major form of education, and how the amounts are too demanding on the students.
Many students who feel the pressure to succeed at the high school level have an unhealthy amount of stress. Students who feel this have been cheating, pulling all nighters, becoming depressed, and seeking relief in drug use, and self mutilation. On average in a recent study at Illinois high school students spend 3.07 hours of homework each night on just homework not including extra curricular activities(Jerushapope,2). Also in this high school students reported getting 6.8 hours of sleep each night, but 34.6% reported getting 6 or fewer hours of sleep(Jerushapope,2). Most high school students spend 2 hours of extra curricular activity each night thats not including homework so after those activities you have to come home and do homework and then you will not have a lot of time to sleep. Also most kids do not get a lot of time to spend with their parents during the weeknights. Some kids cannot even make it to the dinner table because they have so much homework and that is not healthy for the parents and their childs relationship. In ...
Healthline.com has said that “Students in high achieving neighborhoods who spend too much time on homework have more health problems, stress, and alienation from society.” Being sick of school is one thing, but when school is making you sick because of the homework you have now is bad. Elementary kids having physical problems just from homework can eventually lead to other possible problems down the road. These problems include substance abuse, becoming a high school dropout, and possibly death by suicide. So why risk a student’s life for a few homework
Every night is the same, frustrating routine for me: get home from a brain-rattling six-hour school day, eat as much food as I can find, do my daily chores, relax for an hour or two, and then pull out my mounds of homework due the following morning. With the addition of sports, my routine becomes chaotic. Instead of having one or two hours to relax, I am at practice for two to three hours. You can see how this would be a problem, right? Everybody needs at least a little time for himself/herself every day, but with sports in the picture, the time that I would usually have to myself is gone. In order for me to still have this free time and get all of my homework done, I have to stay up later than I would like. Countless times I have stayed up until one in the morning doing something that I do not even enjoy. If I didn’t have hours worth of homework a night, I wouldn’t have a problem. Students everywhere are struggling because of the amount of homework they have; to reduce the amount of struggle, teachers should lower the quantity of homework required.
Have you ever wanted to just shred up your homework or throw it out the window and have no consequences? Kids are assigned daily homework from the time they start kindergarten at the ripe young age of five. Is it really necessary? Does it even help better learning or even higher test scores? The amount of homework we do wastes time, money, paper, and trees because it’s practically the exact same thing we did in class that day. Homework causes kid’s and teen’s frustration, tiredness, little time for other activities and possibly even a loss of interest in their education. It also keeps everyone up; it has kids and teens staying up until they finish it, the parents trying to help them and the teachers grading it. So, I think that homework is a waste and kids and teens should choose whether they want to do their homework for extra credit and practice or not.
4: Clearly, high schoolers should not get homework because it of the issues it causes. 5: One issue it causes is a great deal of stress. Less than 1% of students said homework was not a stressor and 56% of students said homework was the main source of stress. As a teenager, you are already dealing with many stressful things in life, so adding homework on top of that as a main stress point causes too much stress, resulting in poorer health. Which leads me to my next point.
There is a war going on that many people do not know about. The homework supporters and the homework abolishers have been battling in the school system for many years. The focus of this battle is whether or not homework is needed. Although many feel that homework takes up too much time, research proves that homework improves life skills and increases learning outside of the classroom.
The student is choosing their workload and is to blame if it’s too much, but the school is also to blame in that it’s impossible to make a schedule of all the classes wanted, without receiving an enormous workload along with it. Schools say, that having homework will help you attain the skills you need to get higher scores on the tests. By focusing on homework, schools overlook the deeper problem that students use homework as a crutch when it comes time to take the test. The grade students get from homework cushions it, so that the grade won't suffer after failing the test. Matt Zalaznick, author of ‘Homework Overhaul:Along with reducing stress, districts seek to give more purposeful assignments based on students' needs and interests’ says, “We believe that a student's grade should be based on what they learned, not a combination of how much they've learned and how much they've done.”
One of the pieces of evidence is that homework can help make disciplined minds and also homework is considered a powerful instructional tool by the government, this is all from the article “ the case for and against homework” by Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering. This is strong because the government that know alot about the world and how it works is saying that homework is a big thing that we do need. “Teachers call a ban on homework” by the BBC new also states that the government think that it is one of the key parts of learning and quotes “but research has cast doubt on its effectiveness, and has even suggested too much is counter productive”. This quote shows that too much is not good for kids but when you are giving kids too much and are not giving them the right amount they start to think it should be band. My second reason is according to “ how much homework is too much” by the NBC news that homework can teach you long life skills for things like for jobs, college and other important things that you would have to do.
In conclusion, homework is a waste of time. Time that can be better spent is with family and having fun participating in extracurricular activities. Eliminating homework allows students the reward of free time and the invaluable time spent with family. Homework creates unnecessary stress and strain for parents and students alike. Also, homework allows teachers to pawn off their own teaching responsibilities to students and parents with hours of homework. Homework is not beneficial and it should be banned for students Kindergarten thru 8th grade.
Dr. Michael Nagel, an associate professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, says homework has no scientific benefit and that it could even be bad for a student’s brain. “The adult brain does not fully mature until the third decade of life (a person’s thirty’s) and too much stimulation could cause unnecessary stress on a student.” An analysis conducted by Pearson showed that the number of hours spent on homework was between ten and sixty-five hours a week, with females scoring higher on the hours of homework, stres...
We all know the downfall of homework: the frustration and exhaustion, family conflict, time loss, and decreasing interest in learning. No study has ever demonstrated any academic achievement linked to assigning homework. There is also no support to the fact that homework provides nonacademic benefits at any age. Here are a few examples: building character, promoting self-discipline, or teaching good work habits. All teachers who assign homework want to believe that the gain outweighs the pain. Although, there is no evidence of that and they must rely on faith (“Homework: No Proven Benefits”, pg. 1). Michellea, a mother of a middle school student, says that some work can reinforce certain skills, but hours of homework are unhealthy and unproductive. Mominseattle agrees. She contemplates that such a heavy load can result in potential drawbacks to the students. Hours of homework a night plus a full day of school can be just as much work as an adult at a full-time job. She believes students should enjoy their childhood, as short as it already is. MagnetMom complains about how her daughter’s homework takes away her beneficial sleep. With busy families, like hers, they have many after school activities, so when they get home, they do not have time for too much homework. She says ...