The amount of stress that homework may put on a student has everyone asking how much? According to the University Of Stanford researchers 56% of 7-12th graders consider homework a primary source of stress. Also less than 1% of the students surveyed said that homework was not a stressful. The average student has about 3.5 hours of homework, or more than 17 hours a week. In which you take into consideration students have extracurricular …show more content…
The 10 Minute Rule is a new approach to controlling homework. In New York a Manhattan public school abolished homework entirely, blaming it for students ' "frustration and exhaustion, lack of time for other activities and family time and, sadly for many, loss of interest in learning."(Caspari 6).
Homework is not just stressful towards high school and middle school students, but it is also becoming stressful to elementary students. 4th Grade students in Mississippi, get at least 10 hours of homework a week."The poor kids are run down. It 's overwhelming and very stressful. They can 't sleep and I 'm so wired I can 't sleep”(Luke 3). That 's a reminder of how demanding the workload can become for students. Homework is a can beneficial, but at the end of the day students need a quicker, more helpful method that will actually help students record higher test scores. It is not helpful to grade and most of the time it doesn’t even show how well a student understands a concept. Homework can be a false tool to test a student’s abilities. If you have your classmate do your homework for you, then it looks like you really understand topics that you don’t really understand. You can give your teacher the wrong information. If you do the homework yourself and just rush through it, you can make careless mistakes and that will lead to incorrect information being given to your teacher as