Why We Should Not Have To Do Homework

When children come home from school they usually want to do something besides school, but instead they come home upset because they have to do homework. Students who have homework usually start to have problems with themselves. Also, it makes the students very overwhelmed and miserable. I understand that doing homework will help students practice a subject or learn more about it. Assigning homework to students is detrimental because it can lead to health problems, it gives students not enough free time to do other activities too. Also, doing homework after school will decrease their scores.

The first reason why teachers should not assign homework is because it can lead to having health problems such as stress, anxiety, and sleep deprivation, etc. Students tend to spend so much time after school doing homework which affects the eight hours they are suppose to have of sleep, and this leads to students gaining depression because it is found that sleep deprivation leads to depression. Also, it causes stress which is another health problem, and how this affects is that students would become worried about the due of homework and time to do it which stresses the students because they don`t want to fail. …show more content…
Students spend way too much time doing homework that is unneeded. For example, when a child comes home and does the needed time for homework, 2-4 hours. They then need to eat, and get ready for bed which takes about 1-2 hours, so children usually only have roughly around 2 hours for other activities, which is not enough because students should be able to learn social skills to help them in the real world instead of keeping to ¨practice¨ a