Persuasive Essay On Homework

I, Allison Winder, declare that the quantity of homework given to high school students is needlessly excessive. My voice is well suited in delivering this problem since taking both regular and AP classes indicate my experience in diverse kinds of classes and I persevere in each of them to achieve my 4.0 GPA. And in the eyes of an oldest child looking after siblings, I want what’s best for them and never want this agony that is inflicted upon me to be placed upon them. I recently took a poll and asked people how many hours they spent on their homework a night on average and received the average that’s just under three hours of homework a night. This indicates that at least nine to nine and a half hours a day are being spent on school related work. This is absolutely ridiculous and …show more content…
It is depriving us of the interactions so essential to us as humans and, especially as teenagers, in such a critical and difficult time of our lives creating an emotional rift between them and others as they are pressured to focus on mundane work and therefore cut themselves off from the world surrounding them. This emotional distance is detrimental to the emotional health of the teenage population and is a cause of depression. Why is this treatment condoned then? I repeat, why is this treatment condoned? The sad thing is, this leads me to my last point, this homework is often a waste of our time and is often busy work. And if not, the work done in class is busy work and the homework could have easily been done in class. Time is not being used wisely or efficiently by teachers so that students are getting the most they can out of school so that they can have less work at home. And I’m not just saying this because it’s easier but also allows us to realize our problem areas of the work we are learning and get immediate help rather than being in a loss at