Homework Is The Thing That Controls Most Of A Teenagers Life

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.

Success and time management are intrinsically intertwined. Time well spent leads to success; time squandered leads to failure. Soft skills are in great demand today and time management is one of the most important skills one needs to master for personal and professional success. In fact it requires time to master all other skills. Its tremendous value is felt but to manage one’s time is not an easy task – it needs will and effort to do so. Students, the future professionals, can use a variety of strategies to manage their time for better results. This paper looks at how time plays an important role and suggests some feasible strategies like goal setting, prioritizing, being regular etc. for students to manage their time effectively in order to achieve success.

What would you rather do, your homework or play your favorite sport? Some people may have to play sports as soon as they get home. People without homework have more freetime. While people with homework have to do a bunch of work.We should not have homework; homework is not beneficial to students’ mental health. Homework is mainly just busy work, and homework has a negative effect on home life.

The 10-minute rule, endorsed by many different education associations, is a guideline for how much homework students should be given every night. Kelly Wallace, in her 2015 article “Kids Have Three Times too Much Homework, Study Finds; What's the Cost?” published in CNN, explains that the 10-minute rule says students in first grade should have 10 minutes of homework, and students in twelfth grade should have no more than two hours of homework. Homework for students before first grade is not recommended. This guideline is supported by the NEA and the National PTA. Wallace is saying that this guideline is supported by two major education associations, which gives the guideline credibility, and authority. Similarly, Christine Hauser writes the National PTA and the National Education Association endorses a 10-minute guideline: Time spent on after-school work should not exceed 10 minutes a grade level a night. “That is, a first grader should have no more than 10 minutes of homework, a sixth grader no more than 60 minutes and a 12th grader no more than two hours,” the National PTA says. The National Education Association said those recommendations followed general guidelines from the research of Harris M. Cooper, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. What this means is that students should get this much homework to maximize their learning in the most efficient way. I agree that homework should be limited by this guideline, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people still believe that homework should take a long time, and that if you studying for long stressful hours leads to success. Likewise, Pawlowski writes that the National PTA promotes their '10-minute rule'. They advise students to spend 10 minutes times the grade that they are in. 10 minutes for a first grader, 60 minutes for a sixth grader, and two hours for a twelfth grade student is what this

The quality of students’ homework is much more important than the quantity of students homework and data collected during recent studies has proven that homework is not making the grade. “. . . American students are entangled in the middle of international academic rankings: 17th in reading, 23rd in science, and 31st in math according to the most recent results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)” (Murphy-Paul). Students should not be given an excessive amount of homework because the pressure of having to complete excessive amounts of homework every night is quite daunting for most students. Knowing how much homework is the right amount correlates with age and grade. An 8th grade student should not be given a myriad of homework that would keep her awake past midnight completing assignments. In any case, there should be a limit on the amount of homework all teachers give to students because an excessive amount of homework would eventually cause students to become uninterested in school and learning, which could result in poor test scores and low ranks in international academic rankings. In order for students to carry out daily activities throughout the day restfully, teachers must be able to provide homework that does not exceed the appropriate amount of time needed to complete it, which is based on grade level. If teachers are too clueless of a students health due to excessive amounts of homework, many students will develop cases of sleep

Even a professor by the name of Harris Cooper at the Duke University found connections between students and spending time on homework. Firstly, he found that elementary school students improve study habits with only a small amount of homework. Secondly, middle school students are willing to do homework within ninety minutes each night, and thirdly, high school students are willing to do homework within ninety minutes and two and a half hours. Anything after those times, they start to think of it as busy work and lose the interest in learning (DeNisco).

In order to help San Jose State University students manage time in a more efficient way, there was a workshop on September 6 in room SSC 602.  Before having a discussion about how the students who attended the workshop managed their time, the two lecturers began by defining what time management was. Time management is how individuals approach and optimize the use of their time. According to the speakers, being aware of what one wants and what one prioritizes are the two main important skills in managing time effectively. By having group discussions, watching videos, and participating in “what-if” activities, we learned about the five logical barriers that may get in the way for students at San Jose

Students in high school get anywhere from 1 hour a night to 4+ hours a night of homework adding even an extra 30 minutes for that one class can stop students from wanting to learn. After a long day at school and a meeting for a club you go home and immediately get started on all of that day’s work, and after a while you get the feeling of being “burnt out.” This can stop a child or teenager from wanting to learn in the end, may even make the student hate the subject itself, and if students are given too much homework it can make them have anxiety and horrible stress.

Homework, homework, everyone hates homework. People are up all night doing something that they think is such a waste of time! Well is it a waste of time? Most people think so! Infact most people think it has no effect at all! homework has had a huge impact on sleeping, time and grades. Grades k-12 have seen a dramatic change in homework. Changes that happened recently. The evidence shows that homework may not be harmful, but it sure is not helping.

Homework has been a part of education for various centuries for the major part of the world. Initially, homework in America served to engage students with education and provide additional practice for material covered during class in order to encourage leaders during post-war years (“Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home”). However, the effectiveness of homework upon academic performance has been gradually questioned over recent years. With many downsides to homework, many have begun to question whether homework is worth it at all.

Although homework teaches students responsibility, teachers should limit middle school students to an hour or less of homework a day because too much homework causes physical problems, stress, and social problems.

Homework has been an integral part of education since children started to be educated. Recently however, the US has developed an obsession with it as we keep falling behind leading countries like Japan in the education rankings. Many kids in high school, and even some middle school aged kids as well, can have simply unreasonable amounts of homework each night. In the past couple years, it has gotten so out of control that parents are starting to speak out, and protest the amount of homework that students get each night. They are starting to realize the harmful effect that homework has on their kids, and are becoming concerned as a result. In response to the growing amount of criticism, more and more research has been done to try to prove the value of homework, but even the most favorable results for homework have mixed results.

In 2008 the MetLife American Teacher series polled students, teachers, and parents on their feelings and thoughts about homework and the results were as follows; one-third of parents rated the quality of homework given as fair or poor, one-quarter of students say that they as if their homework is busywork and unrelated to what they were learning in class (MetLife). But, one of the leading reasons that people support homework in elementary levels is because they believe it can kick-start healthy and even necessary habits. These habits include; time-management, study skills, independent working, etc. It is unrealistic to expect students to gain important life skills from poorly created and unrealistic homework.

A study from the Nationwide Children’s Hospital shows that the average teenager gets between 7 and 7 ¼ hours of sleep. However, the majority of teens need between 9 and 9 ¼ hours every night. One of the main contributions to sleep deprivation is a result of large quantities of homework received daily. Due to high levels of stress and vast amounts of homework, teens tend to sleep less than the normal requirement to maintain good health. For this reason, there needs to be an adequate amount of homework given to learn a subject without overloading to the extent that students are so overwhelmed they can’t keep up and learn well. If teachers could work with one another, they could spread out their assignments, notes, and study guides throughout the week instead of assigning as well as making papers due on the same day as other classes. Therefore, this allows students to focus on other activities such as sports practices, band rehearsals, church, and even jobs that require long working shifts while balancing their school work. Because of the amount of homework given on a daily basis, students are losing their individual freedom to do anything other than study as well as acquiring an unbalanced life where they’re almost being forced to choose between schoolwork or other activities.

The first reason that homework should be no more than 10 minutes is that it has a negative effect on a student’s mental and physical health. High School is already a stressful time, with the prospect of college to worry about, grades to maintain, and extracurriculars to keep up with. According to Stanford, 56% of students consider homework their greatest source of stress. This is harmful to students because stress causes headaches, muscle tension, chest pain, fatigue, stomach pain, anxiety, depression, undereating, and much more. Also, homework leads to lack of sleep. Lack of sleep is harmful because it leads to heart disease, high blood pressure, and other detrimental things. It also weakens school performance. Focusing in school is