How Much Homework Should Kids Get?
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My poor daughter is simply exhausted from school, homework and cheerleading. Her life lately has been nothing but school, hours of homework and cheerleading.
How much homework is a good thing?
How much would be optimal?
My son’s presently getting around three hours an evening!
He’s a good student and he wants to please, but he now has no time to spend with his family or friends.
Is this crazy or what, and is there anything that I can do about it except complain to the school principal?
Suggestions would be appreciated!
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Too much of anything is bad. When I was in school I used to have a lot of homework like your son does but it was a good training to develop good studying habits than can be used in the future.
What are signs that your child is getting too much homework?
If he or she starts to hate school like my daughter did, and nightly hysterics over homework would be another.
The National Education Association recommends that kids have a total of ten minutes per grade level of homework per night and states that anything over that is excessive.
The bottom line is that a child will understand a concept better if it has time to work on five problems, rather than struggling to get through fifty.
What can a parent do?
First off, you should talk to your child’s teacher, with the assumption that he or she wants what’s best for your child.
Often teachers are unaware of the havoc that their excessive homework is causing.
If that doesn’t work, talk to the principal about your concerns, and he or she may agree with you and set policy changes in motion.
And if all else fails then you may need to involve other parents and even go to the school board.
It may not be simple to stem the tide of homework, but lots of parents around the country are showing that it can be done.
I think that almost everybody would agree that homework based on Peterson’s comments i.e. “ten minutes per grade level per night” would be fine, but my neighbor’s first-grade son was required to research a significant person from history and write a paper of at least two pages about the person, with a bibliography.
How can he be expected to do that by himself?
He just started to learn to read and write a couple of months ago.
And lack of fitness is also a major problem with too much homework.
Sitting down all the time and being too occupied with homework to participate in sports leads to obesity and other numerous health problems such as heart disease.
Loss of concentration is also a result of the lack of exercise and concentration is necessary for the student to be productive and to function properly.
Just look at the child obesity problem that’s now rampant, and let’s get the kids outside playing again instead of being slumped over books and computers.