Do Our Kids Have Too Much Homework

Kids everywhere around the world have homework. Homework is part of a child’s school life, it is normal for them. What is bad is that hours and hours of homework per night is casual for a student. Over the years homework has grown to be a tremendous expectation for any student across the world. A past experience of mine is that every night I have at least an hour or 2 of homework. According to blogs.edweek.org the average amount of homework per night in high schools is 3.5 hours a night! Research has been shown that kids have 3 times more expected homework by the NEA and national PTA according to the website “Do Our Kids Have Too Much Homework?” Teachers have been raising the expectations on homework for a while and this is why kids should

An author states this about this purpose, “I believe that children have many outside activities now and they also need to live fully as children. To have them work for six hours a day at school and then go home and work for hours at night does not seem right. It doesn’t allow them to have a childhood.” (Do our kids have too much homework?) What this means is that instead of being children and running around and having fun they need to do hours upon hours of school work at home which the just supposedly “finished” at the 6 hours of school they just sat through. Another reason is that homework that is completely useless gets in the way of the child’s free time. Tonya Noonan Herring, an attorney and former english teacher, agrees that students have too much homework and that most children are bringing home almost 2 hours of homework each night (Do our kids have too much homework?) What this is saying is that the amount of homework the children need to do is ridiculous along with the fact that half of it the child does not even need to know. The last piece of evidence is that even some very young aged kids have a loss of free time because of the amount of homework they have been given. “Kids today are overwhelmed!” a parent recently wrote in an email to GreatSchools.org “My first-grade son was required to research a significant person from history and write a paper of at least two pages about the person, with a bibliography. How can he be expected to do that by himself? He just started to learn to read and write a couple of months ago. Schools are pushing too hard and expecting too much from kids.” (Do our kids have too much homework?) This proves that young kids (even in the first grade) have been forced to give up their time to do something that