Why Homework Is Important

What time is practice today? How many tests do I have tomorrow? How and I going to get all of this done? These are some of the questions that circulate through the mind of a busy high schooler on a daily basis. High school can be one of the best times, but it can also be one of the most stressful. Being a currently enrolled high school student, I have a lot of experience with bad times due to stress. High school prepares students for life outside the classroom in many ways. The friends and activities students participate in shape them into who they will become. But, balancing all these activities and relationships along with schoolwork can become difficult. Students start to lose the enjoyment of high school because of all the obligations …show more content…
School systems have so many options and opportunities open to the student body. The list of opportunities varies from activities as conventional as football and band to actives out of the ordinary like fencing or surfing. Participating in activities like sports, music, or any other extracurricular requires a lot of practice. Every day students who play instruments or students who play sports have to spend a lot of time mastering the skill. The more time spent in practice the less time there is for schoolwork. Students then begin to stress because they get home late from practice and still have to study for tests and finish their homework that could be due the next day. Also, because students take so much time to practice they have very little time to make for friends. Students can drift away from close friends due to the fact that they do not spend time together anymore. Drifting away from friends causes stress on a high schoolers life because when they are not participating in extracurricular activities they will have no one to talk to which will result in them feeling alone. Losing sleep because of an extracurricular is another issue among students. Once a student finishes their activity and schoolwork they will have very little time to sleep before they have to get up and start another day. Getting no sleep can result in not being able to focus in class which can …show more content…
If a high school student is the oldest sibling that would make then obligated to take care of their younger siblings while their parents were at work. Taking care of younger children and caring for their needs can be a very demanding job. Driving younger siblings’ places and helping them with their school work while still trying to control their own work can be extremely hectic for a high school student. Also, family conflicts can cause stress for a high schooler. Having to listen to parents fight can immediately destroy a persons mood. Equally, getting into their own fight with a parent could ruin ones mood for the rest of the day. Having family issues can make a student less focused in school because it would still be on their mind. Also, family conflict can cause a student to lash out and have anger issues to the people around them. Lashing out because of anger can get a student in trouble in their school and can also cause trouble in their extracurricular