Limiting Homework

There are times of the year when students begin to be exhausted, and it is because of all the homework they have to do. As they sit down and pull out their piles of homework, it rises to the ceiling. Moreover, incalculable of kids go to bed extremely late at night because of it. Teachers should limit the amount of homework they give out. Too much homework has negatively affected kids, especially when it causes a tremendous deal of stress, too much time is required to complete it, and it impacts free time and sleep. Too much homework can cause stress in a student and can lead to issues in their mental and physical health. Stanford researchers found that 56 percent of the students considered homework a primary source of stress (Parker). Without doubt multifarious stress causes slipping grades, depression, and unhealthy eating habits. Therefore, according to Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish in their book The Case Against Homework, one of the multitudinous problems with homework is that it exacerbates the issue of childhood obesity. Because of all the homework given to students, they get depressed, which eventually lead to suicide.
Nervous breakdowns can make completing homework far more of a struggle and also affect the health and life of a student. Believe it or not, kids are doing beyond the recommended amount each night, with no academic benefits. As a matter of fact, the recommended amount is 10 minutes per grade level, meaning first grade gets 10 minutes and senior gets 120 minutes (Worland). In a study done by The National Education Association, they found out that teacher regularly assign homework that exceeds the recommendation. In the paper, the Review of Educational Research, a co-authored name Copper said, it appears that more than two hours of high school homework, and more than 1 ½ hours of middle school homework, have no academic benefit and may produce negative results (Strauss). Above all, doing homework all night can take away a student’s free time and sleep.
For instance, homework reduces the amount of time that children could be spending time with their families. Family time is especially important to a growing child and without it social problems can crop up and a family unit can be compromised by a lack of time being spent together. Lack of time with families can cause conflict between children and parents. In fact, family time is not the only thing homework takes away. Hanging out with friends also decreases because of the massive amount of homework’s students have. Staying up late and doing homework takes away a student’s time to sleep which can leave a student tired and at school they focus less or fall asleep during class. Needless to say, homework is taking away a student’s childhood, which no one
wants. Others must agree that homework can benefit a person by bringing families closer together as students may ask their parents or siblings for help on their homework. The fact is that, students tend to do their work by themselves. Not to mention, many students have parents that doesn’t have the right education to help them.