Speech Upon The Negative Effects Of Homework On High School Research

Good afternoon Ladies and Gents! I’m Skyler Carter, and today I will be making my research speech upon the negative effects of homework on high school students and how it can be improved. But, before we dive into all the facts and statistics, I would like to receive some input from my fellow students. I might do this once of twice throughout my speech, so bare with me here. Raise your hand if you have one or more AP classes. Obviously you should all have your hands up. Two or more? Keep your hands up. 3 classes? 4? 5 or more AP classes? The fact of the matter is that, the number of AP classes that students are taking has shot up drastically over the course of a few years. The cause of this is that students are being pushed harder and harder …show more content…
Yet, as it turns out, more students are getting lesser amounts of sleep as they have in years past. Let me tell you a completely hypothetical story about your average high schooler, let’s name him Tyler. Tyler just got done with a three day weekend and he is finishing off his Pre-Calculus and Spanish homework before he heads off to bed. Before Tyler puts everything away, he checks his agenda and realizes that the rough draft of the research speech that his teacher, Ms. Dell, assigned isn’t due on Thursday of that week, instead it is due on Tuesday. Tyler works extremely hard to complete his paper, but just as he is catching a flow, his internet goes down. Tyler tries to get his wifi back up, but has no luck. Tyler is forced to make a crunch time decision in which he will either stay up and wait it out, or go to bed at 1:00 am and wake up at 4:30 am in order to finish the draft of his research speech. Tyler decides that he would go to bed and wake up early the next morning in order to complete the assignment. By making this decision, he knows that this will cause him to have extremely low functionality the next day and it might as well be another day lost. This isn’t just an individual occurrence that Tyler had to endure, but many other students such as myself have to push through situations like these more more than we would like to admit giving ourselves a false idea …show more content…
Just hear me out here. If the school day was increased by an hour and a half, the students would be able to begin school at 7:30 a.m. and finish at around 3:00 p.m. allowing for an extra 90 minutes designated to completing each classes’ work instead of having it assigned as homework. The benefit of this is that now, students will have more time to work on their assignments in class instead of needing to take them home and labor over them for hours afterward. If the work can not be completed in class, then the teacher will have to either cut down the load, or not assign it period. Although some argue that homework is supposed to prep you for when you are going to have a job, by teaching you time management skills, that is not the case. A study by ATUS and CPS Supplement concluded that only approximately 14 percent of workers, besides farmers, work in places other than the workplace (Eldridge). If the point of homework is to teach the students time management and productivity, shouldn’t the work be within school in order to stimulate the conditions of a job in the real world. By having longer blocks, the students will not only have a day in between each class in order to prepare, but they will also have large amounts of time in classes to complete assignments. This will allow for students to pursue other various activities that will give them real world experience and allow them