Picture this; You just got home from a long hard stressful day of school and now you can relax. Oh wait you can’t. This is because you have more arduous work to do. So you grab a snack sit down and pull out your homework. You then begin to write down everything you have to do on a list so you have an idea of what you are going to have to do tonight. The list begins with your double sided fifty question math sheet, three page science document, Social studies notes, followed by a reading SCR, and a writing short story. But wait, it gets worse, on top of all that homework you have a Math test to study for. Yes this seems very over the top. But it’s not, this is what many HMS students struggle with on a daily basis.
Yes homework can be helpful and beneficial for students but is there a point where enough homework is enough. One survey taken throughout HMS pod 7/8c shows that 65% of students spend 1-3 hours of of their time every day on homework. The same survey shows that 19% of students spend 4 or more hours on there home work and that only 16% spend less than an hour. Yes an hour may not seem like a lot of time but the last thing students want to do after 7 hours of work is even more work. Which is also why less than 8% of students do their homework right when they get home meaning that a whopping more than 92% of students procrastinate when they have homework. These numbers are no coincidence, many of these students who procrastinate are probably procrastinating simply
Because kids need time to do homework, if they are free then they have a chance to do homework. To begin, students get to learn new skills. They become better, but that is if they do their homework, they would be better at that unit. In addition, they get to prepare for the future and what’s ahead of them. Students could get a job in a future, so they would need to have practice with homework, so if you have to use what you learned for the job, then you would need practice for it first so you know what you're doing. Along with, they would get an achievement for what they are doing if they mastered that unit. In the future, many things would happen, students would turn into adults, and they would need to master the stuff that they learned from
Most people would agree that homework takes a lot of time after school and out of their daily lives. 7 hours of the 24 hour day are spent on school. Then including, the average amount of hours spent on homework everyday which is 3.5. That equals 10 hours of the 12-18 hours students are awake in the day. Additionally, an average student gets about 7 hours of sleep each night, when scientists have proven that teens need at least 9 hours. There are simple and easy solutions to these problems, one is to take away homework for students. This would help issues like, no sleep, bad grades, cheating, not being with family enough and more! 79% of the people that took the debate.org quiz thought that homework should be banned. This survey included teachers, students, and parents. There are many students that do sports or after school activities and have not a lot of time for homework. Nearly 6 out of 10/ 57% students do after school activities. As a personal experience, I know that I have cheer practice most nights for two hours each. This leaves only a tiny amount of time I can spend on homework, concluding in me having to stay up later to finish it all. The time you spend on homework each night, could be spent on getting exercise or spending time with people to become better human beings or getting greater social skills. If kids are always busy, they don't get enough sleep. Too much homework also could cause bad grades or kids to attempt to cheat on tests because not always knowing
There is not one student that enjoys homework. It seems as if it serves no purpose other than taking time out of your day. However, studies and experience show that it is significantly beneficial to students in certain fields. As an engineer, homework reinforces the material taught in my courses so that I can go beyond the general concepts and transition into more complicated material. Prospective college students are often intimidated by the amount of work they will face at a given college or university, but I am here to say that with time management it is possible. While homework may seem like an unnecessary grade, it is crucial for those interested in the fields of science and math.
The stance that homework is necessary and helps students engage in the content and learn time management skills is one I concede with assiduously. Homework is given to students to help them retain the information they learned in class and leads to academic achievement. Many research studies have found evidence of a positive correlation between homework and student achievement. Since students are given homework nightly, it will help them absorb the content and they can score higher on a test or quiz. Homework also helps students develop responsibility and life skills, and prepares students in time management skills. Research claims the ability to manage tasks provides essential learning, increased motivation, and academic benefits. When students engage in homework it makes them more successful and independent in the long run. Although homework may take up time after an extracurricular and can lead to less sleep; for example, a student doing a sport after school, getting home and having to do homework on top of that. Doing an extracurricular and still completing homework are inherently important, students will gain time management skills if they are doing both. If a student can learn to juggle an extracurricular with homework it will help them learn life skills. Homework will lead to the academic growth, achievement, and the success of a student.
With Christmas quickly approaching, I sincerely feel compelled to reach out to those of you who may be experiencing difficult emotions due to the absence of loved ones. Holidays are often catalysts for such instances of despair and longing as unfortunately, I, myself, know all too well. I lost both my husband and my father within the past three years, and while I’ve prevailed in becoming stronger and more determined than I ever thought possible, this time of year never fails to unearth the raw pain that permanently resides just beneath the surface. So, from the deepest regions of my heart, my pledge to you is this…if any of you, whether it be day or night, ever need an empathetic ear or shoulder, I’m merely an email, message or phone call
Picture this, Bailey sits on her bed, surrounded by multiple folders, and dozens of papers everywhere. Her room looked like a bomb went off. She has to dig through all of these things just to find her pencil. Her chromebook is out of its case, and Bailey is hard at work, typing away. Her room is brightly lit by her overhead light, and a lamp. This way she can see all of her papers clearly. Bailey is trying to finish all of her homework at a decent time. This student is stressing out over her boatload of homework, hoping she can get it all done. She is as busy as a bee. She hears her mom calling from downstairs, “Bailey it’s time for dinner,” she responds with,
Researcher Kirsten Weir of the American Psychological Association speaks to the drawbacks of mass quantities of homework saying, “...kids don't absorb much useful information, Cooper says. In fact, too much homework can do more harm than good. Researchers have cited drawbacks, including boredom and burnout toward academic material, less time for family and extracurricular activities, lack of sleep and increased stress”(Kirsten Weir). Due to lack of time, it is not unusual for students to go from one subject to the next, when having so much work to complete. This being said, the more time an energy that students put forth on assignments the less sleep they are able to get in return resulting in less time and energy throughout each of their classes. This being said it is more than easy to loose focus on the true point of homework, to reinforce learning, and instead work to get it all finished even if it is not to the best
But actually, more homework doesn’t do the trick. Too much homework can get into resting time or activities students need after school. Kids need their own time to be able to lay back and relax. On,”Healthline”, it states,”Research shows that some students regularly higher amounts of homework than experts recommend, which may cause stress and negative health effects.” More homework will intervene with students downtime and brain breaks needed after school. It can also negatively affect the child’s stress and possibly create negative health issues. Homework can be good, but too much can get in the way of a student’s relaxing time needed after
For decades, professors have struggled to keep student’s sole attention during lectures. This dilemma has become more prevalent in recent years with the increased presence of laptops in lecture halls across the country. Laptops provide an irrefutable amount of distraction with the entire internet being literally at the user’s fingertips. While some students believe that laptops help them take more in-depth notes and focus more in the classroom, most professors strongly refute this belief. Although they give several warnings against it, professors have seen with their own eyes that students are scrolling through their Facebook or Twitter feed when they should be taking notes. Due to the substantial number of students who multitask on their laptops instead of solely using them for notetaking, many professors have adopted policies explicitly banning laptops in the classroom. This debate between students and professors has prompted numerous researchers to study the effects of laptop use in the classroom, both on the individual using the laptop and those students surrounding the laptop user.
Everyone knows that graded homework can be overwhelming at any age. Homework is being introduced too soon into children’s academic careers. It is clear that the government is pushing it more. I believe that graded homework should be more of a choice not another chore. In truth, should students have homework?
A person’s actions are more important than what they say because it shows their loyalty and trust. What a person does is much better than what they can say , it reveals their character more.
Homework kills. Can we all agree on that? I will be discussing how less homework could make a change in our lives. Having less homework is relevant right now because as a 7th grader, my friends and I complain about homework almost all the time. I chose to discuss this topic to let teachers get a possible glimpse on how we feel about getting homework. This issue affects me because I always want to play volleyball outside and watch tv, but homework always interferes. Teachers should give us less homework because it gives us stress, it’s unhealthy, and it takes away time from your friends and family.
To begin, a surplus of homework can lead to emotional and physical health issues for a student and causes too much stress. In fact, a study completed by 4,317 high-school students, conducted by the Stanford Graduate School of Education discovered that giving more than two-hours of homework each night will negatively affect the lives of students. This research revealed that students in high-achieving communities who spend too much time on homework experience more stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance and even alienation from society. Countless students struggle to complete their homework because it is over-complicated for them. Teachers contribute to this predicament by giving pupils an excess of homework making it challenging for students to submit it promptly. Thus, students become anxious as homework would take hours for pupils to finish, and gradually develop unhealthy living habits resulting in loss of sleep, fatigue, lower grades, and unhealthy eating habits. When a student arrives home after a tiresome school day, they need to release their stress and exhaustion by relaxing. However, students cannot due to the amount of stress they have related to complicated homework. To finish homework, students often stay up late at night, avoid eating dinner, and have a nervous-breakdown as they fear that they will not be able to complete and submit the assignments or worksheets on time. If no homework is given, students would not have to live a gloomy
The majority of students have, at one point or another, wished for less homework. For some student’s homework is not a big issue but for other students it can take hours and even days to do all their homework. That wasted time could be used for enjoyment or learning life skills instead of homework. Nine in ten high school students reported feeling stressed about homework (Galloway 4). So, should students get less homework? Yes, students should receive less homework because it improves their well-being by reducing stress and its impacts on health, increasing leisure time, and showing that homework does not affect grades significantly.
Homework over breaks is never fun. For pretty much the whole of winter break, students are