It was 10:00 pm the clock was ticking. An 8th grade student was still doing her homework. Her parents walked in and insisted her to go to sleep. She did as she was told. About half an hour later, she climbed out her bed and started doing her homework again. The clock strikes 12, she slowly turned off the lights and fell back on her bed. She fell asleep in a blink. As we all know the amount of homework in 8th grade is unbelievable compared to 7th grade, 6th grade or under. One of the problems causing students not getting enough sleep is the amount of homework school is giving. Many students are involved in sports teams, clubs and CCA’s. Students join clubs because they are passionate about what they do in clubs or what sport they play, but …show more content…
The average time his daughter finishes her homework is 3-4 hours. After a week of experiencing the average time the dad takes to finish the homework is also 3-4 hours. As you can see that is a lot of time a grown man takes just by doing his daughter's homework. “Are these many hours of homework the only way to achieve this metamorphosis of a child into virtuous citizen?” The dad says in the article. Not surprisingly the teachers of the school think the answer is yes. They think homework does no harm. “Turns out that there is no correlation between homework and achievement.” The dad states in the article. But if the kids have so much homework they certainly will not get enough sleep. “An average teenager needs at least 9 ¼ hours of sleep” the Nationwide Children’s Hospital says. One thing the 8th grade girl has taught her dad “Memorization, not rationalization” Another experience a student did was she called a group of students and stayed up to watch movies and responding to worksheets about the movies. The point of this experiment was to see if the accuracy of the worksheets decrease or increase as the night goes on. This test shows if teachers give too much homework the students work quality will suffer because students tend to stay up late doing homework. The result of this test was as the night went on the accuracy of the worksheets decrease. The reason is because if students stay up late doing their …show more content…
Another factor is that now days we have lots of technology, it is really easy to get access to the Internet. According to the survey 85% of student procrastinate occasionally. This is because they get distracted from technology, like going on social media or talking to their friends. This takes up a huge section of their time, this not only distracts them, it will also cause them to not get enough sleep and not have proper growth in their