A 2007 Metlife study found that 45 percent of students in grades three to 12 spend more than an hour a night doing homework, including the six percent of students who report spending more than three hours a night on their homework. How is this fair for a student? We are in school for about seven hours, and then teachers expect us to go home and do more work? I know school is important, but many feel homework is unnecessary.
In April, Denise Pope, a researcher at Stanford University, found that too much homework can negatively affect kids by increasing stress and sleep deprivation and generally leaving less time for family, friends, and activities. According to Pope, homework should not be simply assigned as a routine practice.
Students need time to be social and they need family time. Why would you want a student inside doing homework after he was just sitting down for 7 hours doing the same thing. When you overwork a kid they begin to dislike what you are overworking them with. This is why I feel many kids my age do not like homework or school, because it takes away from so many other things. Students want to do other things, like nap after school, eat, play a sport, something. Everybody has a hobby or something they do when they get out of school, and nothing is worse when you don’t have time for that.
What about the nights you get piled with homework. Now you are working all day, you realize you missed dinner, you realize you should be in bed at a certain point, and then when you wake up that next morning for school and you are drained. But guess what you have to get ready for the next morning? More work in school! I feel many students are overworked and teachers expect too much sometimes and at this point it is not healthy for the students to not have time for anything else but school. That is why I feel homework should not even exist.
