Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Is It Helping Us Or Hurting Us? By Mike C

It's 3:10 and should be over. But is it really? Homework still needs to be done. Many people have their own differnt opinions on homework. And I'm going to give you mine. Does homework really help you learn or is it just a waste of our time? These are some reasons why I think homework is a waste of time and doesn't help you learn. It can be stressful, and school days are already long enough. 

Have you ever come home from a long day at school and have so much homework that you don't know where to start? Do you try to do what you can? Or, do you ended up not doing it? This has definitely happened to me! Homework is meant, to help students learn, but in the end, it can stresses kids/teens out. One main effect is too much stress gets you to sleeping problems. Which, we all know that if you don't have a good nights sleep you're not going to learn as well as you could of. I find that if homework starts giving students stress problems it is not going to help them. So we shouldn't have homework. 

I don't know if its only me but when I get home I'm glad to be home. I'm tired and the last thing I want to think about is more schoolwork. The average teen goes to school for 6-7 hours a day; basically from 9am-3pm with lunch breaks and breaks between classes. So when you get home you don't  want to do 1 hour and 30 minutes of extra schoolwork. You just want to relax watch some TV, play video games. So we have to think to ourselves if we can't teach it students all they need to know and practice in 6-7 hours days do we need to know all this information. Some students play sports after school, and just don't have time to do homework. Now I know school comes before fun but we also need to move and be active. We can't spend all day sitting in a class and expect us to do more work at home for 1 hour and 30 minutes. 

Evidently, we shouldn't have homework because it stresses kids\ teens out. School days are already long enough! Homework does not help students learn. So what do you think? Should we have homework or should teachers stop giving students it? Just please give us a break! 

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