Homework

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Coming home after a long, tiring day, with the desire to take a nap or simply do something of personal pleasure but not being able to do so is a common problem that students in this generation face. Due to the excess amount of homework students in North America receive on a daily basis there is increased stress levels, lack of understanding content from the assigned work and a lack of sleep.
Over the course of a couple years in Canada alone, there has been increased reportings of stress amongst students due to the overload of work being assigned to them on a regular. In 2007, a study showed that 72 percent of parents reported homework as a major cause of stress (CBC News, 2007). A teacher in Edmonton no longer assigns homework to her class due to the anxiety of parents. Generally, students go home after a full school day of learning solely to go …show more content…

The reason for this is that they already have piles of homework and do not want to spend extra time on the work assigned from one class thinking that they will not have the time to complete other tasks. Due to this conception they tend to rush the work assigned from classes, thus causing them to have less understanding of the task. The time it takes to complete homework for every student can vary, for a sharp student the work that may take 10 minutes to complete will take a struggling student 4 or 5 times longer. A way to lower the amount of work for home is by finding the time in class to allow students to complete their homework. By doing so, a struggling student will be able to ask questions to the teacher and their pace of working can also be evaluated. The purpose of homework is to provide students with an opportunity to review what was taught in class by practising, in this case the quality should be taken to consideration rather than the quantity of work being

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