I think the problem is the discrepancy between regular and honors/AP classes in our high schools. For regular classes, I would get 5-10 minutes of HW every few days. In the honors classes I mostly take, a lot of them view themselves as the only class. That means 1-2 hours per night, per subject, 4 classes a semestre. My schedule looks like this:6 AM --> 2:00 PM School2:30 PM --> 6:00 PM Student Directing a Play6:15 PM --> Lord Knows when, HWI'm tired all the time.
Are Children Getting Too Much Homework?
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Posted 22 October 2008 - 12:33 AM
Homework shouldn't beits credit to pass a class, but the credit is put their to make them do ithomework really is a practicing toolit doesn't need to be force uponmy friend is stupid as hell (no offense) and he pass his class with a B+Me on the other hand I'm passing every test with A's and failing the classtest show what you know from the class and prove how much you know100% of your grade should only be the tests you take!classwork is also the same as homeworkand notes to!essay and quiz are in my opinion under tests
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 07:35 PM
If you spend 45 minutes in a class 9 times a day and 7 of the classes give you homework and each homework takes you 20 minutes you have no time for a Life!!!
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Posted 11 December 2008 - 09:02 PM
It depends on the person, and the difficulty of the homework.Let say that the questions given in homework have been taught before and can be done easily. If the person is able to sit at his/her desk for many hours solely doing homework, that person would no doubt finish in no time, so he/she will find it little. But if the person is the restless type that cannot sit still for less than an hour, it's no wonder that that person would feel that the is too much homework.But in most cases, the homework given usually have some challenging problems for the students to tackle, so it will take even more time and patience. However, nowadays kids themselves too have a schedule to keep - plans in which the modern, ambitious parents have for their kids. With all these together, surely the kids will feel the pressure.So my stand is that kids nowadays are getting too much homework.
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1. It does? Every previous poster here must have neglected to mention that. [/Sarcasm]2. Am I understanding this correctly? Do you consider irresponsibility and a lack of interest in ones future and grades to be arguments for lessening the load of homework? 3. Assuming that you did not mean that we should reward children for irresponsibility and lack of interest, would you disagree that challenges are what children need in order to learn properly?4. Few things strain the human mind, especially that of a young, healthy mind, like the pressure of having sports' training once or twice a week, and two hours of homework every day. [/sarcasm]5. You might want to re-evaluate the arguments behind that stand.(1)It depends on the person, and the difficulty of the homework.(2)Let say that the questions given in homework have been taught before and can be done easily. If the person is able to sit at his/her desk for many hours solely doing homework, that person would no doubt finish in no time, so he/she will find it little. But if the person is the restless type that cannot sit still for less than an hour, it's no wonder that that person would feel that the is too much homework.(3)But in most cases, the homework given usually have some challenging problems for the students to tackle, so it will take even more time and patience.(4)However, nowadays kids themselves too have a schedule to keep - plans in which the modern, ambitious parents have for their kids. With all these together, surely the kids will feel the pressure.(5)So my stand is that kids nowadays are getting too much homework.
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I think the entire system of homework is flawed. Honestly, I see no reason for it. Now, I've been able to read something and understand it immediately since I got into school, so my perspective might be flawed, but I'm posting anyway.Homework as a means of getting students to understand the day's lesson is all well and good, but, again, there's no reason for it. If a student doesn't understand the lessons, they need to ask questions, they need to have it explained better, or they just need to go over it a few times. There is no reason that schools should be forcing busy work down our throats other than just that; To keep us busy. Now, while in school, I can why students should be busy; Without such busy work, students would be goofing off, not paying attention, blah de blah. Why, then, do they force us to go through the monotony and tedium of taking the work outside of the school?For the purposes of my post, I'll take math for my example. It works with any subject, really, but math is the easiest to demonstrate.So, let's take a simple, linear equation that we all learned in freshman year of highschool (if not before). 2x - 6 = 24. We can all solve this, finding that x is 15. It's not hard, and it wasn't hard when you first learned it. Why, then, must we solve what is essentially the same question 40 times per assignment? Practice. There is no reason for someone who fully comprehends the material to continue trudging through mindless equation after mindless equation ad naseum. The only people benefiting from it are the ones who don't understand it, and even then, they don't get any benefit from doing it wrong 50 times, so really, the only people benefiting from this tedious exercise are the ones who bother to ask about what they don't understand, and then, when they do comprehend what to do, it becomes as pointless and redundant as it is for people who understood it in the first place.Okay, so a little practice doesn't hurt, but it should be the student's decision if they should practice; Let test scores reflect if they have actually learned something, or hell, give them busy work to do in class, whatever they don't finish, oh well. Then have the teacher look through it, and if people made mistakes, how about explaining the mistakes to the students? At least that way, the people who understand the work can do other stuff, like reading a book, and then the people who need help can get help.
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Posted 21 December 2008 - 10:04 AM
Well, I'm in High School right now. Let's see my homework schedule....1st Period - Up to 6 questions or a chapter of definitions a night.2nd Period - None.3rd Period - 5-20 math problems a day.4th - None5th - One assignment each weekend.6th - None that isn't finished in class.So I'd say no, but I like it this way.POINTS were deducted for this post by -Mario-Please refer to the forum rules to find out why your points were deducted.
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Posted 28 December 2008 - 11:03 PM
I think homework isn't really needed because its just for practice of their skills. Smarticle people take the worst hit because they don't need homework but they still get it. I think homework is a waste of time.Sometimes also, when children don't understand homework and there is no one to help them, they do very bad on their homework and it could be a hit to their grade especially if the assigned work has 20 questions and the kid gets 5 right. Thats a 25%! Less than a F. Could drop an A to like a D or something.Homework also takes the time off having a good life. Kids need to socialize and learn things out in the world. If science teachers just say "Frogs are endangered" that won't do any good. Kids have to see the numbers and see what frogs do for the environment. They could spend their homework time doing that instead of writing 2x2=4.Homework = NO
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Posted 28 December 2008 - 11:30 PM
Homework has evolved with the times and now has become a drag on most students. We have to remember that before paper and records that things were taught by word of mouth. You needed to memorize each lesson or else repeat the lesson all over again. At that time in history many hours of homework a night was necessary to prepare the new generation for the future. Now a days the amount of homework or just the work itself seems to be a waste of time and effort. I myself feel the drags of homework. Homework seems to be nothing more then review designed to hammer in concepts. However some homework is necessary. Many, myself included, ask what is the practical application of learning to graph parabolas using the Quadratic Equation and get frustrated each night when each graph takes up at least 10-15mins of your time and you happen to have at least 8 on your assignment. These kids would think they have too much homework. I say nay. We "Children" are not getting to much homework rather we are getting too much useless homework. Though I recommend you not twist my words. Homework is necessary or else some children will fall behind because their testing abilities are below par.So to conclude I believe the assignment of homework to the student body hasn't significantly increased rather that the assignment of interesting or otherwise non-repetitive homework has diminished. Homework is necessary but only homework that stimulates the mind and dares the children to ask questions that will push the frontiers of our existence.
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Posted 29 December 2008 - 03:05 AM
I believe not. Yes,i am also a student but if u look at it from a Mature/adult point of view u would notice that Homework is something that actully help u. School is to prepare u for the future and so is homework becuse once u get a job,u would also have to do them(depending on the job) and Homework is review to help u remember wat u learn from school It is actully childish to complain about too much HW. I understand that we have our own personal stuff to do but if u think about it,u would know that it is silly to complain about something that would help u and that u would get alot alot more in the future when u have a job(depending through)POINTS were deducted for this post by -Mario-Please refer to the forum rules to find out why your points were deducted.
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Posted 29 December 2008 - 04:32 PM
homework is essential in learning. You need to pratice the stuff if you really want to learn the material.i personally dont think children are getting too much homework. they just need to learn how to manage their time better!POINTS were deducted for this post by Rtn. of SmaltPlease refer to the forum rules to find out why your points were deducted.
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my students at my old school have a few pages of HW per day, and they say it is WAY to much HW and it takes them 2 hours, well, they are wrong, so don't even listen to the stupid people who don't even try to make a schedule or manage their time.I take 4 advanced classes and 2 hours of sports and I get done before 8 pm everyday, well almost everyday, with 1 hour to text email and post here. So the answer is no. Over 90 percent of children in America just are too addicted to video games I guess?
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Definitely!My little sister is in third grade and it takes her about 2-3 hours a day to finish her homework. That's with the help me and my parents. Everyday she is told to do few pages in her math book, to read a short story and answer question regarding to the topic of the story, to read a short novel (Ex. James and the Giant Peach), prepare for her math and language tests, and revision of previous material. I am not sure what their motive is in doing this but it surely cuts out her time to play outside. She hardly gets to play outside due to the excessive homework and reading. The only time she has to play outside with her friends is during the weekends (after completing her weekend assignments of course).My sister goes to the elementary school that I used to go to. But when I went, the homework wasn't as hard, nor did it take so long.
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What the hell kind of elementary school does your little sister go to!? Never in all my life have I heard of a mere third grader getting assigned that outrageous of an amount of homework! Insanity... and a little blown out of proportion, methinks.My answer is that children are not getting too much homework. Let's leave high/middle schoolers out of it for now. We'll get to that later. As far as I know, elementary school appears to be relatively standardized across America. Not until high/middle school do we get into different level classes with different subject matter/difficulty. My experience with elementary school was a simple "Home Link" each day which covered different subjects such as math, science, etc. My 8 year old sister is in 2nd or 3rd grade now (how do I not know?) and she goes through the same deal every day. It usually takes her about a half an hour after dinner, and that's it. By no means is she feeling weighted down and unable to enjoy life.Once we get into middle school and high school, the workload is entirely contingent on the course level you're currently involved in. This is more noticeable in high school, but is still present in junior high. The more capable and motivated the student is, the more work they are assigned because they can handle it and embrace learning. Some might perceive that as "too much" homework, but if the student really has a desire to learn, they're not going to complain and just accept it. However, if they feel it is too much, they always have the option to drop down a level. More is expected out of higher level students, so the extra homework is something that is understood and not to be debated.To some degree, students have a choice in how much homework they do. That's why I hate when kids complain about so much homework when they schedule a full course load with no study halls. Well... stupid... you buried yourself, deal with it. You didn't have to dig yourself such a hole... Same goes for the level course they pick. If you have 6 AP classes, well, duh, you're going to have a poo-ton of homework.Always remember, nobody is forcing you to do all this buttload of homework. If you really want to succeed in life, you'll shut your trap and do the damn work without complaining. If you think this is bad, just wait until the real world hits you like a bag of bricks.Definitely!My little sister is in third grade and it takes her about 2-3 hours a day to finish her homework. That's with the help me and my parents. Everyday she is told to do few pages in her math book, to read a short story and answer question regarding to the topic of the story, to read a short novel (Ex. James and the Giant Peach), prepare for her math and language tests, and revision of previous material. I am not sure what their motive is in doing this but it surely cuts out her time to play outside. She hardly gets to play outside due to the excessive homework and reading. The only time she has to play outside with her friends is during the weekends (after completing her weekend assignments of course).
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What you said is a very practical way of looking at this argument and it is my sentiments exactly. I'm going to add onto that by saying how much time kids really do have during the day. My little brother takes 4 AP classes. He's also very forthright about his workload. His sentiment about homework is that if the workload is done in a time frame appropriate to the time given for each assignment, it's not that much. Even in college, I've seen this is the case. He's sitting right next to me right now and this is his workload:What the hell kind of elementary school does your little sister go to!? Never in all my life have I heard of a mere third grader getting assigned that outrageous of an amount of homework! Insanity... and a little blown out of proportion, methinks.My answer is that children are not getting too much homework. Let's leave high/middle schoolers out of it for now. We'll get to that later. As far as I know, elementary school appears to be relatively standardized across America. Not until high/middle school do we get into different level classes with different subject matter/difficulty. My experience with elementary school was a simple "Home Link" each day which covered different subjects such as math, science, etc. My 8 year old sister is in 2nd or 3rd grade now (how do I not know?) and she goes through the same deal every day. It usually takes her about a half an hour after dinner, and that's it. By no means is she feeling weighted down and unable to enjoy life.Once we get into middle school and high school, the workload is entirely contingent on the course level you're currently involved in. This is more noticeable in high school, but is still present in junior high. The more capable and motivated the student is, the more work they are assigned because they can handle it and embrace learning. Some might perceive that as "too much" homework, but if the student really has a desire to learn, they're not going to complain and just accept it. However, if they feel it is too much, they always have the option to drop down a level. More is expected out of higher level students, so the extra homework is something that is understood and not to be debated.To some degree, students have a choice in how much homework they do. That's why I hate when kids complain about so much homework when they schedule a full course load with no study halls. Well... stupid... you buried yourself, deal with it. You didn't have to dig yourself such a hole... Same goes for the level course they pick. If you have 6 AP classes, well, duh, you're going to have a poo-ton of homework.Always remember, nobody is forcing you to do all this buttload of homework. If you really want to succeed in life, you'll shut your trap and do the damn work without complaining. If you think this is bad, just wait until the real world hits you like a bag of bricks.
On his worst days, if he has been spreading around all of his work, he has to work three dedicated hours. I remember doing a chart like this myself when I was younger. It was about the same. Also, we didn't add in anytime he used from extraneous things, like finding his work or having to eat a snack between sessions. He gets home from school at 3pm. He has 7 hours until he should sleep to get the ideal amount of sleep. 3 hours is not, in my opinion, a lot.I think it's just the parents of the procrastinators that are complaining when they're worried about their kids staying up until 4 am because they inefficiently planned their time. For example, you should not do homework nearing the dark hours of the day. By then, your mind is beat up. You crave sleep and inefficiency plagues you. It takes longer to do your homework and you learn less. You'll end up having to relearn concepts for tests that you should have mastered with a homework assignment a week before. I find this even more true in college, but because of my job, among other responsibilities, sometimes it's not possible to me to spend the ideal amount of time to do all my studies which leads to more procrastination. Now the point here is that teachers shouldn't have to calculate around procrastinators. Like I said before, I'm just going into more detail, but this is the same idea greenz put out there. Be efficient, and when that isn't enough, you need to drop.-NonHonorsEnglish: homework ranges from reading select novels to studying for tests Time spent per day: 0-20 mins comment: We rarely get homework and when we do, it is very little-APArtHistory: homework is only reading the book and studying for tests Time spent per day: ideally, 20 minutes per day comment: Despite the ideal, no one follows that. Everyone procrastinates until the very end which invariably leads to 4 hour reading sessions to catchup for the test-HonorsPrecalculus: Regularly assigned bookwork Time spent per day: 25-50 minutes Comment: It really depends on the topic, but generally speaking, it's about 30 minutes per day, and 45 minutes everytime before a test, which is usually every 3-4 weeks-APChemistry: Chemistry problems and reading Time spent per day: bursts of 1 hour Comment: The reason for the burst is that the teacher is rather spontaneous. Sometimes, we'll have no homework for an entire week, and the next week, we get homework everyday. Not even able to approximate how much time it would be if spread out because the teacher assigns problems from handouts. So when you get the homework, it's due the next day.-Spanish: regularly assigned problems and tests Time spent per day: 15-20 minutes Comment: The homework is VERY easy. All of the three levels of spanish he's taken have required the same amount of effort which is virtually none. Homework reflects the tests so if the homework is done with an alert mind, there shouldn't even be a need to study.-APBiology: Reading only Time spent per day: 20-30 mins Comment: Usually, 1-2 chapters are assigned per week. They are easy reads and you should finish each chapter within 1 hour if you are just reading, but analyzing and absorbing the information requires that the chapters are reread at least once.
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I do agree definitely that children are getting too much homework. I read once somewhere that homework a student gets should be 10 mins times the grade the student is in, or the homework will not become a revising tool for the child but may cause negative effects instead. Yet most of the time, teachers do not give THAT little homework, say for example, the university homework given should be 2 hours, but I should think that each research the lecturers give will usually take up more time than merely 2 short hours. I am currently in secondary 4, equivalent to that of grade 10, which means that my level should get approximately 1 hour and 40 mins at the most. However, I study 9 subjects concurrently, and each teacher gives homework as though there are no other teachers giving homework, so everyday there will be 7 lessons, and from there, each lesson get approximately 30 minutes homework at the very least (and that's not to include the term papers/revision papers/compositions that will take up at least an hour each), and add up from there, the homework is overfilling.Perhaps it is because I live in Singapore, a country that stresses on academical results, and so the academic stress is much higher than that in countries like say the US, as I have heard my friends saying that they know someone going there to study and how much more lax the teachers are towards them.Of course, that's not to say that I will drop the subjects I have as I love studying them, as much as I hate doing the homeworks assigned or revising for the exams, because the subjects I study are pretty much fun, for example, Biology, English Literature, and Elementary/Additional Maths, these are the subjects I won't really complain about having homework since I love them and they are pretty easy assignments given to complete.I do not know about other children out there whether or not they are getting too much homework, but for the US, I should think the homework load is relatively lesser, and thus like some of the other people who have expressed their views here, I would rather think that they are not getting too much homework at all, and I do agree that it is only the middle and high sch people whose homework are a lot more in percentage to the grade level.
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Posted 22 February 2009 - 02:29 AM
The most difficult part of this topic is that it is very different for everyone. It varies between country to country, state to state (or province, or whatever term is applicable), even from town to town. It also depends on the teacher and the environment.I must use personal examples for that is what I am most familiar with. During my middle school i was in a "magnet school". It was almost a subsidized private school. It took the best 100 students of each grade (it was out of a student pool of at least 10,000) and placed in a school. The school then gave them a highly accelerated schedule. For example, ALL 6th graders had to take Latin I. That was the environment. So despite giving out a large amount of homework (easily 30-45 minutes a day, sometimes over an hour) the students took the work without complaint for if they did not want to do it they would not be there. Now, as a senior in high school, it is different. Students complain about some homework, but only for teachers that are notorious for it. What I am trying to say is that it is a matter of student attitude. If the student wishes to learn, they will do the homework. But every student has a limit in which they will not do any more homework, regardless of the effect on grades. Thus, I feel that there is no "correct" amount of homework.
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Posted 29 March 2009 - 09:13 AM
I don't get that much homework but my brother does, he gets a lot because he takes some honors classes in high schoolPOINTS were deducted for this post by IPS Driver ErrorPlease refer to the forum rules to find out why your points were deducted.
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Posted 26 May 2009 - 02:10 AM
No Children are not getting too much homework, first of all in response to someones statement in regard to a senior year female student having to read 40 pages per night it is quite normal and is not an advanced amount of work. In my first year of University we had to read over 120 pages a chapter for intro to psychology, so if that student is taking a psych course in high school then most likely she is planning to attend a secondary university in the end so she has to get use to it and get ready for worse. Furthermore our population seems to be getting less intellegent so rather then decreasing the amount of homework a different method of teaching the youth might be needed.
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Posted 29 May 2009 - 04:12 AM
I think that schools are presenting too many homework assignments, all it tends to do is stress people out, as it does so, grades fail, and groundings commence.are children getting just too much homework now a days? I know many kids who are all honors and other such and they pretty spend their days in the house doing homework and doing it right. Or having a life and then just scribbling at 2am in the morning getting all their work done. Is enough enough or are kids never going to have a life on a school day ever again?Today for example my sister is a senior in High School and for jsut one subject in Psycology, she had to take notes on one chapter........that would be alright if the chapter wasnt 40 pages long
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Posted 06 June 2009 - 09:59 PM
It all depends to school, actually. an example, i get nearly no homework while my brother has really much of them. That much homework is taking hours to finish, giving him too less time to have fun and/or rest. It is not too easy for him. The children at his school, are indeed, people that are not capable of socializing much. That means they will not have a good life. Lucky for my brother, he is really to easy to socialize, though.
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Posted 07 June 2009 - 12:28 AM
I think that kids are getting just about the right amount of homework. Especially in high schools, the teachers each assign varying amounts of homework- for example, my Spanish teacher never gives homework, but I get lots of algebra homework every night. Sure, there will be some days when everybody assigns a lot of homework, but that hardly ever happens. The main reason why kids complain about too much homework is because they have extracurricular activities that mean they don't get home until 9PM some nights. If that's the case, then that is strictly the student's responsibility since it has to do with his or her choice of how to manage his or her time.
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Posted 07 June 2009 - 02:34 AM
I'm in high school and I have to be honest, schools really don't give too much homework. They generally know where student's schedules can handle the most homework and where students can handle the least. Teachers usually give out homework only when necessary and pay attention to how students cope. I personally have never gotten a teacher who sits behind her desk and cackles while assigning mountains of homework. Maybe I'm lucky but i usually do thirty minutes of homework a night at the most. Maybe a little more when projects are assigned but he thats cool. I think kids should shut up and do a little work. Maybe I've become a cranky old man by the age of 15, but my points still stand.
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Posted 07 June 2009 - 04:55 AM
No, they need more, in my opinion. Most people I had seen in high school would complain over a tiny little assignment. They need to learn how to take responsibility. So no, I do not believe any country charges too much homework on students.
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Posted 07 June 2009 - 03:49 PM
I do have to disagree with you on this, because there are several teachers (at my school, at least) who give out homework every night just for the sake of giving out homework. It really does differ on a teacher-to-teacher, school-to-school basis. I don't think that a question like this can really be answered because of the huge amount of variation.Teachers usually give out homework only when necessary and pay attention to how students cope.
