Teachers Assign Too Much Homework

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Every night is the same, frustrating routine for me: get home from a brain-rattling six-hour school day, eat as much food as I can find, do my daily chores, relax for an hour or two, and then pull out my mounds of homework due the following morning. With the addition of sports, my routine becomes chaotic. Instead of having one or two hours to relax, I am at practice for two to three hours. You can see how this would be a problem, right? Everybody needs at least a little time for himself/herself every day, but with sports in the picture, the time that I would usually have to myself is gone. In order for me to still have this free time and get all of my homework done, I have to stay up later than I would like. Countless times I have stayed up until one in the morning doing something that I do not even enjoy. If I didn’t have hours worth of homework a night, I wouldn’t have a problem. Students everywhere are struggling because of the amount of homework they have; to reduce the amount of struggle, teachers should lower the quantity of homework required.

“New research has now pinpointed how lugging around a heavy backpack is contributing to lower back and shoulder pain.” A backpack can get up to thirty pounds, which is almost twenty-two percent of children’s “body weight in backpacks.” The pressure from the backpack digs into the student’s shoulder and can “easily reduce blood flow to kids’ skin and muscles.” It seems as though using two straps on the backpack would reduce the risk of back injury, but that is not the case. “Even when both straps were used, pressure on the students’ shoulders was uneven.” It was discovered that the right shoulder recieved a little more pressure. “Uneven loading on shoulders over a period of years ...

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...books a student needs to carry is about three, which can be very heavy. Sleep loss is also a very big problem that comes with a load of homework. Age is a factor in whether or not homework will help a student. The older the student, the more homework improves his/her knowledge. Homework can be very beneficial but only when there is the correct amount of it.

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Wallace, Kelly. "The Great Homework Debate: Too Much, Too Little or Busy Work?" CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.

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