To start off, when kids get home from school, we should not be doing homework, but spending important time with our family. Family time is precious and needs to be something that happens every night. Michael Gove says, “We are saying that when they go home they …show more content…
When kids they come home from school they may have an after school activity and won’t be able to complete all their homework. If they come home late from their activity, now that student is up all night doing homework, which causes sleep deprivation. In April, Denise Pope, a researcher at Stanford University, found that too much homework can negatively affect kids by increasing stress and sleep deprivation and generally leaving less time for family, friends, and activities. According to Pope, homework should not be simply assigned as a routine practice. Kids can be up all night working on projects, reading, and regular basis homework. Kids go to school, seven hours, five days a week and are expected to come over with about three more hours, plus the time you need to rest. Physical activity is needs for kids and young teens, but when you are given too much homework, you are not able to do the activities that you would like. Now that you are up all night doing homework and have to get up early for school, you are sleep deprived which leads to more stress. And can be a negative result when going to school.
Schools should get rid of homework because it takes time away that we should be spending with family, extracurricular activities and may cause sleep deprivation and stress. Schools and teachers should notice that kids do not have that