More Homework?
When I come home from an exhausting day of school, all I want to do is relax and have fun. Instead, I have numerous amounts of homework projects to do. So wouldn’t you want to have the rest of the afternoon and night to have fun and just relax? Or do endless amounts of homework?
One reason why teachers should not give a lot of homework is that it can interrupt the students personal life. The time for doing homework can come between them and the free time that they have to do something they actually want to do. Homework can also withdraw time from communicating and having fun with the student’s family. If you have too much homework, you would waste most of the time working on that, instead of spending time with your family. Now what would you do: A backpack full of homework or spend quality time with you family? Too much homework can also interfere with other school activities such as school sports and clubs. I know when I played school basketball, I was busy out of my mind with having practice and lots homework. Sometimes I’d stay up to about midnight just trying to get my homework done and ready for school the next day.
Another reason why giving a lot of homework isn’t a good idea is because it pounds too much pressure on the students. It can make some students go crazy with too much work and other activities at one time. Studies show that stress kills brain cells. If you want to get scientific, stress can destroy newly created neurons in the hippocampus, the brain region involved in memory and emotion. A lot of homework in one class can build up with another class’s homework. In some kids, like me, we have to remember a lot and end up forgetting something to try to remember one thing. If you have too much to remember, you can forget other important things.
Homework was rated the second most time-consuming work for teens after time spent at school, totaling 9.2 hours per week or just under two hours a day on average. Studies also suggest that teens are stressed about their work levels, with almost 40 percent feeling under constant pressure to do more than they can handle. So my conclusion is that some teachers need to give students a break and decrease the amount of homework or give no homework at all. Would you rather have the time to do whatever you want? Or spend all your time with your head strapped to books and homework?
