We Need To Get Rid Of Homework

I believe, as a student, that homework is just a tool that teachers use to keep us busy. Being a student who has received homework for various years, I have found that homework causes me a lot of stress (Ethos). Homework causes kids to get very stressed out, it causes stress in their families, and studies show that it does not improve test scores. Harris Cooper, a worker at Duke University (Ethos), found out that, doing more than 60 to 90 minute of homework in middle school and more than 2 hours in high school is associated with much lower scores (Logos). This just shows that homework is a useless item that students are forced to do. Firstly, students have to wake up from seven until two o'clock everyday,

First of all, homework is a big stressor to many students. According to Stanford News, “Researchers used survey data to examine perceptions about homework…$4,317 students from a high-performing high schools in upper-middle-class California communities. 56% of the students, consider homework a primary source of stress, according to the survey data. 43% viewed tests as a primary stressor, while 33% put the pressure to get good grade in that category. Less than 1% of the students said homework was not a stressor. This is important because it proves that

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

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.

Kids today have too much stressful homework. Due to the increasing amount of difficult homework, the age level of kids getting stressed is becoming lower. The homework kids have to do today can exceed to 3 or 4 hours which can affect their sleep cycle. The more homework children have, the less time they’re outside making them lazier. Kids should have less difficult homework to reduce levels of stress and other health problems.

Homework can add stress to students because they are worried about getting good grades and if they’re going to get them correct also they had been in school all day learning things and trying to pay attention. A Stanford studies show 56 percent of students considered homework a primary source of stress, news.stanford.edu/news/2014/march/too-much-homework-031014.html.

According to the article by Druker, “If bombarded with countless lessons at school and at home, students may feel stress and anxiety should they fail to complete the assignment on time.” They should be allowed to spend time exploring different things outside school. Children require time to rest and take their minds off of school work, as too much can make them feel burnt out and become a burden. Too much homework can negatively impact the performance of students and become counterproductive instead of improving achievements in school. It can decrease the value the kids see in the work they take home and decrease their ability to commit as much time as they should to each task. Children need freetime to do things like spend time with family and friends and participate in sports. By having too much homework, it makes it difficult for children to have a

As teachers give out so much homework, there is limited time to finish work for another class or study for another class. Whenever we actually do the unnecessary work and turn it in, it doesn't always necessarily get graded and it just causes more stress on top of stress. Students are already not getting enough sleep with all six classes that they have. Yet homework is great for students is very helpful for students in their classes, but at the same time they have so much work that they have done in such little time. CNN conducted a study last year showed that the impact of excessive homework on high schoolers included high stress levels,

Did you ever go home to be pounded with homework? Is there just to much you can’t focus and do it all. Kids have sports and other activities to do too. Maybe children shouldn’t get as much homework as they do each day. Homework is proven to cause sleep problems, bad grades, and physical health problems. Studies prove that too much homework is actually not good for your health.

Homework has been a common teaching strategy since the middle of the 1800’s (Gartner, 1980). It is said to promote learning by taking what the kids learned at school and bringing it home for further practice. But some people see that there are more negatives to homework than positives. And those people are hoping to change the way our society looks at homework. For example, many kids don’t think that

School is very taxing on students and their families. A study from The American Journal of Family Therapy showed students have nearly three times too much homework (Wallace 1). Supported by the National Education Association, the standard amount of homework is ten minutes per grade; 1st grade has ten minutes of homework, 5th grade has fifty minutes. Kindergartners are not supposed to be getting 30 minutes of homework, the amount of homework meant for a third grader. Too much homework is unreasonable and unfair. Students are already in school for seven hours, there is no need for extra hours of work at home. Stress affects not only the student, but the parents as well (Pressman 1). Parents feel unable to help their children with an increase in homework. As demands and difficulty increase, parents feel overwhelming stress because of their inability to assist their children. Another study showed 56% of students stated homework was their main stressor; Homework was directly connected to conditions such as ulcers, migraines, weight loss, and sleep deprivation (Enayati 1). Over half of 4,300 students who participated stated they feel there

Homework, that terrible word that gives any high school or college graduate PTSD. Homework is a daily thing in a student life and it can become overwhelming. Its standard in school, but in recent years its become overly stressful and the workload has increased. The average high school student in the U.S. has about 17.5 hours of homework a week, divide that by 5 days in a week is 3.5 hours of homework each night, and if the average student is at school from around 7:30 to 3:00, that is 7.5 hours at school. Add 7.5 hours at school to 3.5 hours of homework at night you have spent 11 hours in school. Health studies say that teenagers should be getting around 9 -9 ½ hours of sleep. Now, remember there are 24 hours in a day. So 11 plus 9 is 19 hours that leaves 5 hours in the day for eating, sports, relaxing, or even working if you have a job. This is a statistic from 2017. In 2011 studies showed the average student spent about 6.8 hours doing homework, and in 1994 a survey should that the average 17-year-old had about an hour of homework a week. (A WEEK) This increase in hours spent doing homework is a problem. And it is a problem that has dramatically increased in the past 10 years. Many people argue that homework is an essential part to school, while others believe student spend enough time in school already and their time outside of school should be spent with extracurriculars, playing sports, relaxing, spending time with family and getting enough sleep. The debate over

When the twentieth century began, the mind was viewed as a muscle that could be strengthened through mental exercise. Since this exercise could be done at home, homework was viewed favorably. During the 1940s, the emphasis in education shifted from drills to problem solving. Currently, homework is required by all that leads to academic success. Required. That word seems to scare many and stress all. There is nothing worse than watching a child struggle to accomplish a task that is required for completion. Stress will overcome them, and the depression overwhelms their body, causing them to stop trying. When students are assigned hours worth of homework and projects every night, it would be absurd for anyone to not notice some form of stress. It is difficult to help students who have this problem. They feel as though giving up is all they can do and accept the bad grade. Furthermore, there is a limit on everything; however, homework is breaking through those limits. Homework for elementary school students is higher than ever. Teachers should be teaching children to have a balance of play and school, but it is becoming harder to balance this because of all of this schoolwork. Even for the people participating in sports, it is hard to have that balance of school, work, sports, and family. Learning what benefits a student in school should be a priority; however, this is not being brought to our attention by the teachers. Although teachers believe homework benefits students, it

“Thirty-eight percent of parents--more than one in three-- say their kids are getting too much homework. Twenty-six percent say they’re not getting enough, while 36 percent say it’s just right” (Luke, 2015, p.2). Not all students enjoy homework or retain much from doing it, yet we still have it. Having homework has lead to two sides, let’s take a bigger look at both sides of homework. Students and parents of different communities are coming together to question this topic on whether or not there is benefits and what teachers can do better. Some of the benefits to having homework is that it encourages responsibility and higher academic achievements, but that together leads to a con of homework. Homework affects kids health by causing stress, anxiety, and depression. Health issues are not positive resulting in kids not wanting to learn anything, they naturally turn it off. Whether homework is a good thing or not it allows parents and teachers to see progress within and individual. Along with all these pros and cons there are a few things that meant in the middle. Homework needs to show a students achievement and be manageable for them. When homework is manageable it give students motivation to achieve everything they originally set out to do. Although homework has its goods and bads it can meet in the middle to see both sides. Some believe homework encourages responsibility, higher academic achievement and allows parents to monitor students; others believe it creates stress

One of the major reasons as to why homework is unfavorable is because it causes high levels of stress. Studies “conducted at Stanford University found that students… who spend too much time on homework experience for stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance in their lives, and alienation from society.” This shows that homework has many negative qualities that are not