Banning Homework

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Homework Let's say that you have an important practice for the sport you play in the next hour. But, you have massive stack of papers you need to finish. What do you do, risk missing your practice, or risk your grade going down because of a 5 point paper you didn’t do.Now you are ethier benched for being late to practice or have a bad grade because you didn’t do any of it.In 1981 Students only spend 44 minutes doing homework.Ever since 1997, the amount of homework that students receive has nearly doubled.Homework should be abolished because it takes hours to complete and sometimes students have to stay up all night to finish.Kids should have time to do the things we love instead of stressing over homework we have to do.Banning all homework will stop sleepless nights and stressing over whether or not you can have time to do it or to stress over getting a good grade on it.“Trifilio had looked up research on homework effectiveness and learned that, generally, homework in elementary school isn't linked to better academic performance -- except for after-school reading”( "Does More Homework make for a Smarter Kid?”).After the principle researched if homework after school helped their students get smarter it showed that no it didn’t really change anything but add stress to the kids and their …show more content…

“Maltese and his colleagues pointed out that if high school teachers most nights assign just one hour of homework, that amounts to about 180 class periods of 50 minutes apiece. Essentially, they noted, an hour of homework each night adds another class period to the school day.”("Schools Ditching Homework.."All these middle and high school students have to get all these done it doesn’t seem that hard of a task to do put still but’s pressure on the kids.The parents get frustrated because their kids can’t do family time because their kids have a stack of things to do that's in their back packs.It also cause problems at home as a teacher says in

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