Trouble With Homework

School we know today is the basic teacher and students in a class learning the bases of education, and of life where you learn and become who you are as a person. Education now consist of the main core classes of math, english, science, and history, and contains classwork with homework, and has students maintain an average eight hour day. Many people and critics signify of how our educational system needs to be modified and correct for the young to be more effective and efficient. If I were to protest something, for or against, it would be against the way our educational system is ran and the way we are educating our youth. Our educational system is incorrect in the ways of having unnecessary homework and assignments, the number of hours attended

In an article by Valerie Strauss, she quotes, “Is that really worth the frustration, exhaustion, family conflict, loss of time for other activities, and potential diminution of interest in learning?” This demonstrates how homework has a negative outcome and needs to be balanced in a way for students to be able to get the full effect of homework. It also goes in depth of how homework could be harming the personal life of students by them not having the time needed for family and other important aspects. Another effective article titled, ¨The Trouble With Homework¨, by Annie Murphy Paul, shows her point of view of how homework is not effective. She points out how the quantity of students’ homework is a lot less important than its quality. Annie also states how homework in science, english, and history has “little to no impact” on student test scores, but it had a positive effect for math homework. With the major impact from these quotes and articles that have a great explanation for the reasons of unnecessary homework, and the significance that

A quote from an article by the University of Michigan, written by Diane Swanbrow, “American children and teens spend about four hours a week on homework and attend school for about 32.5 hours a week, according to a U-M study that provides a detailed snapshot of the way school-age children spend their time.” This quote helps support my reasoning for how school over could be overrated and need to be adjusted. It does this by giving the facts of students spending a minimum of four hours a week, and about thirty-two hours of school a week; which could be unhealthy, and could lower the chances of a good education. Another explanation from the same article, "For example, children ages 6-8 spend almost seven hours a day in school today, compared with about five hours a day 20 years ago." This gives a great comparison of how children spend their time now compared to children twenty years ago, where students spend a huge amount of time in school rather than engaging in outside activities; such as sports. The number of hours spent by students today is extremely high; which could be harmful to our youth, and furthermore backs up my opinion of how our educational system needs to be