Extracurricular Captivity

In a study General Society conducted, 16% of teens viewed themselves as workaholics, 39% said they felt under constant pressure to do more than they can handle and 64% cut back on sleep to do the things they need to do. As these tasks are quite time consuming, students state that homework is the most out of all the unpaid activities they do throughout the day, as 60% complete 2 hours and 20 minutes on average each day (CBC news, 2007). The amount of homework students receive on average daily has greatly increased in the past 15 years, which concerns parents. Homework interferes with students’ lives outside of school, a student’s overall health, and consumes countless hours, which is why it should be limited to a reasonable amount.

This article form Stanford University introduces the physical and mental faults that homework causes. The author, Clifton B. Parker sited all of his sources and quoted an education scholar at Stanford University which increases the credibility of the article. Clifton B. Parker has written hundreds of articles for Stanford University many of which have to do with education. His article was published in 2014 which gives me the most up to date information on the downfalls of

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

It basically shows students that the amount of hard work is not worth it in the end. Having this thought, gives students a negative feeling of school and do not try as much as they should. Factual Facts claimed that placing too much homework on a student, the lower the test grades end up. The numerous amounts of hours that students are forced to study is becoming a serious issue. John Buell argues from Alternet proposed to us that "Our own ethnographic research shows that extensive homework assignments have played a major role in school dropouts." (Buell para. 5) The amount of effort into our work does not seem to be pulling off as it should be. Teachers also should realize the amount of homework they place on students will most likely have other classes with an excessive amount of homework that need to be done as well. With students having to be at school for seven hours and five days a week, and having hours of homework and when we do not finish it all, we end up having to do in other classes and end up behind other students. Students wouldn't have this problem if we were not assigned pages of homework on a daily basis. “Over the last decade and half, children as young as nine to eleven have seen a nearly forty percent increase in homework, a trend that is likely to continue. Unfortunately, this remedy may be doing our children more harm than good.” (Buell para. 1) Homework is doing more harm than

The next reason too much homework is harmful to students is that studies show more homework to cause lower test scores. One to two hours of homework a week does not cause a major change in test scores (Wolchover). There is no evidence of homework having any academic benefit in elementary or middle school, and the academic benefit found in high school is very weak (Kohn). Homework is not shown to help students academically until grades ten through twelve (Wolchover). There is also no proof that homework increases good study habits in students (Kohn).

If you’re a student you know the stress that runs through you all day, even after school ends. Yes, the learning part of the day is done but there’s still all homework that needs to be finished. As soon as you step foot inside your house, it’s time to decide whether to start studying for the science test or finish the history project. Then you would think to yourself and say; neither because you still have the stack of math homework laying on your bed. Nowadays students get so much homework that they are usually up and losing sleep in order to complete it. On an average, a student should not spend more than 60 minutes on homework per day, but if each teacher assigns homework which exceeds the time limit it adds to the workload. Due to a lack

A study by the American Journal of Family Therapy speaks to this issue. In the study, it was found that children in first to sixth grade are assigned three times as much homework as recommended by the National Education Association. According to another study, an overabundance of homework has been found to not only be unnecessary, but also correlate with negative non-academic effects in students attending high school. These effects can range anywhere from psychiatric issues such as depression to physical health issues such as ulcers, migraines, sleep deprivation and weight loss (Galloway et al.).

Losing sleep due to homework is a big problem as well, which can be heart-breaking considering the fact that they are also not spending a lot of time with their families just to be up all night studying for a test the next day and completing lengthy homework assignments. These students may become depressed, end up having bad attitudes, and even dropping out. As a motivated student myself, I am sure that these issues should not be occurring just because of homework.

To begin with, one reason why homework doesnt help students, parents, or teachers is because it is bad for health. One reason why it is bad for health is because it causes anxiety/stress. Too much homework can damage students health by making anxiety and stress, according to thecaseforandagainsthomework.com. Another reason why anxiety and stress is bad for you is because you have so much stress you go really fast on your homework and you do really bad. I have had that happen to me and it is not good. If that always happens then that could really affect your grade.Then, the last reason why anxiety and stress is bad is because, anxiety and stress is a mental thing and if you keep on having it it could damage your brain, according to the website sciencedaily.com . Having your anxiety and stress damage your brain over homework is just crazy. Another reason why homework is bad for health is because you can have anger. Having anger when you are doing homework is not good. For instance, one thing about having anger during homework is that some people can get really mad because they don´t know how to do their

Homework may bring emotional, physical, and socially damaging to students. Most of the students in the U.S. take multiple classes with different subjects each school year. Some of these students see their teacher every day or every other day, this means students are going home every day with homework and that includes weekends. Students already spend 8 hours a day on weekdays in school and then they also have to go home with about 2-4 hours of homework. If there are only 24 hours in a day and 8 are spent at school, another 8 hours sleeping, and about 3 hours of homework that leaves students with 5 hours to eat, shower, socialize, be involved in extracurricular actives, work for those who need to, and time to spend with their family. Above all, it is obvious students do not have enough time in the day to juggle all of this, and that is not counting the students that take bus and arrive home later than other students. Due to not having enough time through the day students will have to pick and choice how they spend their hours outside of school, one of the most common things students sacrifice is their sleep at night and this affects them so bad and they have no idea. According to the research MD Craig Canapari found “Short sleep makes children obese, sleepiness is a significant cause of automobile accidents which is the most common cause of death in teenagers, depression, anxiety, and irritability are all associated with insufficient sleep.”(2012 p.1) Another thing students usually

Students, parents, teachers, administrators and other interested parties all seem to have strong and different feelings towards homework. Students complain that they have too much homework to complete outside of the hours they already attended classes. Students feel that they have personal lives to live and blow off homework while some parents and teachers believe that homework is the key to passing classes and preparation for college. This leads to teachers feeling pressured to push their students to succeed and this can easily get carried away. Parents and school systems still often discuss the topic of homework today. Should homework in school systems be stopped?

Think about this word, family. What if you never got to spend time with your family? What if you missed that special time that you could have spent hanging out and having fun with your family, but instead, you were locked up in your room doing your homework. And it's not your fault, you want to spend time with your family, but your stressful homework is keeping you away. This is another reason why schools should not have homework. Homework takes away time for special things, like family, friends, sports, hobbies, and even being a little more social. Speaking of social, homework can cause social issues, too. Thinking about kids who don't have time to spend time with people and socialize, but instead doing their homework. This can trouble them and cause emotional, social, working with other people and friend

The homework revamp has not come out of surprise nor is a personal vendetta to completely get rid of it from schools completely, but to simply limit the amount of it. Some schools like Lincoln Middle School, located around the L.A County, already have a limitation program in place. Their limits included the suggestion of 60 minutes for 6th graders and 70 for 7th graders. Their plan was thoughtful and intriguing nonetheless, but it lacked the sufficient and flexible timing in their after school programs and ignores the amount of limitation to be implemented in the earlier grades. However, my policy would take advantage of this inspirational advancement and combine it within the confines of 1st-4th graders. The policy would follow Professor Harris Cooper’s, a leading homework researcher from the University of Duke, approach that recommends children “should be assigned no more than ten minutes per grade level per school night (Monday through Thursday only)” (The Case Against Homework: A Fact Sheet, 1). This would be the ideal model for the policy which compromises to both teachers and school administration and with the children. Kids would have a progressive system of homework integration in their curriculum. The course of the plan would follow with 1st graders doing no more than 15 minutes of work, 2nd graders no more than 25 mins, third graders no more than 35 mins, 4th graders no more than 45 minutes and so and so forth. The limitation restricts the overworking of students

To begin, homework creates way too much stress for students and raises their blood pressure, which is definitely poor for one’s health, especially at such a young age. This stress is due to having loads of pressure to complete it all and being overworked. In my case, having several hours of homework almost every night and worrying about finishing everything puts a lot of stress on me and makes me feel sick. If it starts at a young age, it will only continue to build up as the kids get older, which could cause serious problems. Researchers from Stanford did a study on homework that show that “56 percent of

Over the years there has been question about whether or not homework is beneficial for students throughout elementary and high school. The opinions on this topic often change with the times. For a period of time, homework is perceived as harmful for students. Then the opinions change and the consensus is that homework is indeed beneficial for students. The documentary Race to Nowhere looks at the stress that is put on American students to do well in school. All of this stress is coming from parents, teachers, administrators, even the government. Students are expected to perform well on classroom tests as well as standardized tests. On top of the pressure to do well on these tests, students are given a large amount of homework to complete every night. If students do not have the homework completed, they are reprimanded or given a zero on the assignment. Many students work, participate in an after school activity, or have family obligations outside of school. This leaves little time to complete the homework. The video Waiting for Superman looks at how schools are failing our students in their education. Homework is one way in which schools are failing our students. It causes the students to become stressed because of the amount of that they are assigned each night. Changing the way teachers use and give homework can make a difference in the stress that students feel from school.