Youna Steves
Ms. Tarr
English 9/ 2y
21 April 2015
Homework Should Be Banned “A Stanford researcher has found that students in high- achieving communities who spend too much time on homework experience more stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance and alienation from society” (Levy). Homework is thought to help improve test scores, but it actually lowers it. It also gives students health problems and increase stress. High school students should not receive homework because they have too many activities after school, it doesn’t improve test scores, and students receive extra anxiety and stress. High school student should not receive homework because after school activities take up time. Students spend an average of 10 to 65 hours …show more content…
Leahy said, “The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s.” Students get no sleep for nights because of homework which can cause health problems like depression.” An average student should get at least 8 hours of sleep. IF one does not get sleep in 24 hours, there brain will be slower than a person who drank 5 bottles of beer. 56 percent of the students considered homework a primary source of stress, according to the (Stanford research)” stated Parker. Also a lot of middle school students are stressing out about college which isn’t till another 6 years. "Colleges are seeing a generation of students who appear to be manifesting increased signs of depression, anxiety, perfectionism and stress," a 2007 American Academy Pediatrics report explains. In conclusion homework should not be given because after school activities take up a lot of time, test scores doesn’t improve, and anxiety and stress increase. Too much time is taken up because of homework and there isn’t enough for after school activities. Homework does not help and improve test score. Homework can also increase anxiety and stress. "Remember to have fun in your high school career," Hughes says, "because I see a lot of kids letting the stress consume them." Aoshfoihdsjnv oihdljkhfpvi oihdlkjhv dfhpmht
Ms. Tarr
English 9/ 2y
21 April 2015
Homework Should Be Banned “A Stanford researcher has found that students in high- achieving communities who spend too much time on homework experience more stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance and alienation from society” (Levy). Homework is thought to help improve test scores, but it actually lowers it. It also gives students health problems and increase stress. High school students should not receive homework because they have too many activities after school, it doesn’t improve test scores, and students receive extra anxiety and stress. High school student should not receive homework because after school activities take up time. Students spend an average of 10 to 65 hours …show more content…
Leahy said, “The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s.” Students get no sleep for nights because of homework which can cause health problems like depression.” An average student should get at least 8 hours of sleep. IF one does not get sleep in 24 hours, there brain will be slower than a person who drank 5 bottles of beer. 56 percent of the students considered homework a primary source of stress, according to the (Stanford research)” stated Parker. Also a lot of middle school students are stressing out about college which isn’t till another 6 years. "Colleges are seeing a generation of students who appear to be manifesting increased signs of depression, anxiety, perfectionism and stress," a 2007 American Academy Pediatrics report explains. In conclusion homework should not be given because after school activities take up a lot of time, test scores doesn’t improve, and anxiety and stress increase. Too much time is taken up because of homework and there isn’t enough for after school activities. Homework does not help and improve test score. Homework can also increase anxiety and stress. "Remember to have fun in your high school career," Hughes says, "because I see a lot of kids letting the stress consume them." Aoshfoihdsjnv oihdljkhfpvi oihdlkjhv dfhpmht