I write to you today as the principal of Frederick Irwin Anglican School (FIAS) aiming to persuade you about just how important not having homework is, and to suggest how FIAS could be more successful if not giving us homework.
Do you know just how much homework we, year 8 students at FIAS get? Well we get heaps!
Firstly, it’s very tiring and boring, and we are just going over what we learnt that day, and we are just writing it out again! That’s silly. Some teachers even yell at FIAS students for not paying attention in class. That is because kids stay up late doing homework and study all night hardly getting any sleep.
Do you know how late we stay up doing assignments too? Did you actually know that we do 7 hours of school a day and we have …show more content…
When kids don’t know what to do for their homework they get stressed and just don’t want to learn what they have to learn. Kids then get upset and are not concentrating in class. This sometimes leads to depression (later down the track) and kids at this age should not have depression! Currently in Australia 1 in 5 children are effected by mental health problems. I believe that the pressure of homework has contributed to this statistic.
Another example is that, after school, kids just need to relax and cool down from having a long tiring day of school. At this age (12-16…) kids are in high school and they will start to get heaps of homework from every subject, that’s like 1 hour for every subject! Some night’s kids have to study for exams/tests/naplan and still having homework piling up on their backs.
Over the past 30 years’ childhood obesity has almost doubled and if children are having to spend so much time doing homework then I am sure the obesity rates will continue to grow. Children need to be out exercising, instead of sitting at a desk doing homework.
In conclusion, I hope you can consider the above facts and understand how important it is to remove homework from the children of Frederick Irwin Anglican School. I am sure you will notice happier, healthier and calmer children around the
Do you know just how much homework we, year 8 students at FIAS get? Well we get heaps!
Firstly, it’s very tiring and boring, and we are just going over what we learnt that day, and we are just writing it out again! That’s silly. Some teachers even yell at FIAS students for not paying attention in class. That is because kids stay up late doing homework and study all night hardly getting any sleep.
Do you know how late we stay up doing assignments too? Did you actually know that we do 7 hours of school a day and we have …show more content…
When kids don’t know what to do for their homework they get stressed and just don’t want to learn what they have to learn. Kids then get upset and are not concentrating in class. This sometimes leads to depression (later down the track) and kids at this age should not have depression! Currently in Australia 1 in 5 children are effected by mental health problems. I believe that the pressure of homework has contributed to this statistic.
Another example is that, after school, kids just need to relax and cool down from having a long tiring day of school. At this age (12-16…) kids are in high school and they will start to get heaps of homework from every subject, that’s like 1 hour for every subject! Some night’s kids have to study for exams/tests/naplan and still having homework piling up on their backs.
Over the past 30 years’ childhood obesity has almost doubled and if children are having to spend so much time doing homework then I am sure the obesity rates will continue to grow. Children need to be out exercising, instead of sitting at a desk doing homework.
In conclusion, I hope you can consider the above facts and understand how important it is to remove homework from the children of Frederick Irwin Anglican School. I am sure you will notice happier, healthier and calmer children around the