Free Time Persuasive Speech

You wake up at six in the morning, get dressed, brush your teeth, and eat breakfast. Your eyes droop as you try to sit through the seven hour school day. Teachers constantly nag at you to stay awake and at the end of the day, assign two to three hours of homework assignments. After an unpleasant day at school you have to go to soccer practice. The coach yells at you because you don 't look alive. You’re on your way home, dreading doing your homework; once you’re finally there it’s dinner time. After dinner you look at the clock and realize it’s seven o’clock PM. You take your binder, filled with loads of homework out and proceed to work on it for the next three hours. It’s ten o’clock and you 're rushing to finish so you can get at least a few hours of sleep. You quickly take a shower and brush you teeth before going to bed and getting another five to six hours of sleep. Then the cycle continues the next morning. The series of excessive homework and lack of free time that causes sleep deprivation and health problems amongst students. Students would become healthier and more successful if homework was minimised, almost to the point of abolishment.

A typical teenage body needs at minimum of nine to ten hours of sleep in order to function and develop normally (National Sleep …show more content…
Some teachers believe that, “doing homework will prepare students for the big end tests”. But homework is not the only factor contributing to students capability to pass and master their exams. In fact there is close to zero proven academic benefit from assigning excessive amounts of homework. There is however proven beneficial results of lowering amounts of homework. Finland actually decided to completely terminate homework from their academic system. Since then their test scores have been dominating the charts and their high school graduation rate is twenty percent higher than the United States and