Have you ever wondered why kids come home so stressed and frustrated? Well that’s pretty much what you are going to read about in this essay. Both children and parents SHOULD pay close attention because this will be helpful for you in the future.
For instance from the article “Is Too Much Homework Bad for Kids’ Health” by Sandra Levy, it talks about how students who spend way too much time on homework have more stress and health problems. According to this article the study that was done, more than two hours of homework a night can be counterproductive. Researchers studied 4,317 students from 10 high-performing high schools in higher-middle-class California, according to this study the students there complete a total average of just about 3.1 hors of homework each and every night. According to Pope in this article “The findings address how current homework practices in privileged, high-performing school sustain students’ advantage in competitive climates yet hinder learning, full engagement and well-being”. To most students a lot of homework is pointless homework. For example the researchers found that spending too much time on homework meant that students were not meeting their developmental needs or cultivating other critical life skills. A very important point in this article was that sleep is important too. Reason saying this is that according to the researchers, no matter how much a student studies each day, if that students sacrifices sleep time to study more than normal, then she or he will more likely to have more trouble understanding material taught in class and struggle more on a assignment or text on the next day.
According to the article “Study Finds Too Much Homework Bad for Students” by Rachel Ryan, it talks about how when it all comes down to teens and homework, more isn’t necessarily better. In this article Robert Tai said that “The more time students spend on homework, its not clear that they are
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