In the article, “Is Homework Making Your Child Sick?” by Amanda Enayati, the author states the effect homework is having on students in the ten high-performing public and private high schools in California. Many students in these high schools are doing more than three hours of homework per night, causing them to become sick. Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at the Stanford GSE claimed, ‘“Three hours of homework was an average, by the way...we had kids in the study who were doing way more than that,” as many as five hours in some cases.”’ Research shows that stress issues caused by excessive homework are also linked to physical health problems such as: migraines, ulcers, sleep deprivation, depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol abuse, exhaustion,
