Homework 
I believe, as a student, that homework is just a tool that teachers use to keep us busy. It doesn’t really have a good purpose and there is more of a negative side to it than a positive side. Homework causes kids to get very stressed out, it causes stress in their families, and studies show that it doesn’t improve test scores. It actually shows the opposite: Duke University’s Harris Cooper found out that, “doing more than 60 to 90 min. a night in middle school and more than 2hr. in high school is associated with, gulp, lower scores.” This just shows that homework is a useless item that students are forced to do.
I’m speaking from experience: From first to fourth grade, I went to a small private school in Dallas, Texas. Even though the school was very small, the homework load was the opposite. I remember crying almost every night because I would get so stressed out, and I didn’t get it at all. I had tutors, and I got help from my teachers but I still had hours and hours of homework each night in fourth grade. And not only was there a lot of homework, but it was very advanced too! In first grade I learned multiplication; in second grade I learned long division, etc. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be challenged at school; I’m just saying that the work shouldn’t be so long and hard that we start to hate school. Isn’t learning supposed to be fun?
Homework has an effect on family life as well. Studies show that most kids spend more time doing homework than spending time with family and friends. Instead of being at family dinners, a child could be stuck up in his or her room doing homework. Teachers don’t give us a lot of options either: we either do the homework or take away from family time or we can choose to not do the homework and fail the class. Which would you choose? Homework can also tear the family apart. It’s usually not extreme like divorce but it defiantly causes tension between the parents and their child and between the parents. I remember hearing
I’m speaking from experience: From first to fourth grade, I went to a small private school in Dallas, Texas. Even though the school was very small, the homework load was the opposite. I remember crying almost every night because I would get so stressed out, and I didn’t get it at all. I had tutors, and I got help from my teachers but I still had hours and hours of homework each night in fourth grade. And not only was there a lot of homework, but it was very advanced too! In first grade I learned multiplication; in second grade I learned long division, etc. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be challenged at school; I’m just saying that the work shouldn’t be so long and hard that we start to hate school. Isn’t learning supposed to be fun?
Homework has an effect on family life as well. Studies show that most kids spend more time doing homework than spending time with family and friends. Instead of being at family dinners, a child could be stuck up in his or her room doing homework. Teachers don’t give us a lot of options either: we either do the homework or take away from family time or we can choose to not do the homework and fail the class. Which would you choose? Homework can also tear the family apart. It’s usually not extreme like divorce but it defiantly causes tension between the parents and their child and between the parents. I remember hearing