East Jordan High School Should Give Students Less Homework

Homework- schoolwork that a student is required to do at home, work or study done in preparation for a certain event or situation.” Most students understand why they get homework at school, but not why they get homework in every class every day. The purpose of homework is “helping to prepare students for national and statewide exams and tests. It helps to reinforce what’s being taught in the classroom” (Raychelle Cassada Lohmann- teen angst). High school students now-a-days get way too much homework to keep up with all of it with sports, other school work, and family/friends. The point is- East Jordan High School must give their students less homework due to the negative social,educational, and emotional impact.
To begin, East Jordan High School must give students less homework because it it can have a negative impact on students socially. Too much homework makes students unable to attend events because they have too much work to do for the next day. If you go to any of the sporting events, you can clearly tell that there are more students attending on Fridays, because they have the whole weekend to work on their homework. Also less school spirit because students don't have time to go to events because they have
Too much homework can affect students emotionally by the stress, the chance of depression and how overwhelming it is. It can make the student stressed which makes them unhappy, sad or depressed. Homework can also cause depression which can make them less social with their friends and family. They can become very anti-social. Too much homework can be very overwhelming. Being too overwhelmed can cause the students to be unable to focus during class and will have them always thinking about all the homework and projects/papers they have to do that night. Too much homework can affect students by stress, depression and being