Homework :: Teaching Education

HomeworkIs it non amazing that in todays society students moldiness not only come about s correct hours in school doing work, but then they must go home to spend another quintet or six hours doing homework? Their grades are not improving enough to make a difference, and they are becoming extremely unhealthy. Not only does the average student suffer from sleep release but many times malnutrition and emotional breakdowns. These are all caused by the over assigning of homework outside of school.How much(prenominal) homework is there really? Some say that for every hour spent in class a high school student should spend at least and hour doing homework and studying for that particular class. Well considering that a student would have to wake up by 6 a.m. and does not get home until around 230 p.m. there just are not enough hours in a day. Seven hours of school would be seven more hours out of school this would mean that if the students came home from school, they would have to wor ks non stop from 230 p.m. until 930 p.m. every day. This may not seem bad until a person realizes that in todays world, the average student has at least one or devil activities a week. The students may not be home until 500 or 600 in the evening, if not later and then would be required to occlusion up until 100 a.m. doing homework. This is ridiculous.This homework causes sleep deprivation without sleep it is almost impossible for the body to function. A student could easily become ill. With only five hours of sleep, a student is less likely to wake up in the morning, causing many tardies in school. If the students become sick they will miss even more school and the makeup homework will begin to pile up. This makeup work adds hours to the regular work. Eventually the student will become so tired and ill that the underline will become unbearable. The average teenager in the year 2000 is already subject to extreme stress. This stress exemplifies with sleep deprivation and illn ess. Stress is an amazingly powerful thing. Any student can become stressed but with more and more homework begin added into everyday schedules, the stress factor can increase severely, causing students to become tired, irritable, ill, depressed, and even to have emotional breakdowns.