Too much homework????

Kids spend most of their days at school. Everyday they work their tails off learning knew things. Their lives are full of tests, quizzes, and TONS of homework. Now as an adult, you must remember the work load and how stressful it was for you. I personally, as a young adult, think that children shouldn’t get as much homework as they do.

Seven hours and forty five minutes we spend at school. Is it really fair to have all this time PLUS hours worth of homework? Young children can’t be expected to cover this much material and then have to go over all of it at home again. In 1999 nine to twelve year old's spent five and a half hours doing homework each week. Don’t you think that is a little much for developing minds? These are just kids and the amount of homework they are getting is at an all time high. For adolescents, they spend up to fifteen hours a week doing homework instead of enjoying time with buddy's.

To me this is such an unfair amount of pressure that has been dumped onto children. How are they supposed to go outside and get fresh air, or hang out with their friends? They can’t do that and their homework all in one night. We have to stop and think about how much kids are missing out on because they are too bust studying for a test, or doing another boring worksheet. These kids are our future.