Homework Could Cause Your Child Physical and Mental Harm!
Homework Could Cause Your Child Physical and Mental Harm!
Henry Brockman
Students that do a lot of homework have a higher chance of growing socially awkward and are more likely to have a higher than normal blood pressure. Children should use their time after school to practice being humans and enjoying their social lives. If you’re the parent or teacher of a high school student, you know that the homework that can be extremely stressful. It’s been proven that stress is a key cause of many different health problems. Students should not be given homework because it deprives them of their social life, it produces low quality work/muscle memory, and the stress can be extremely bad for you students physical and mental health.
Being able to talk to other people and being social is a very important skill to have as you move into your adult life. With all of the homework that is given, kids barely have time for social events. High schoolers today are given an average of about 380 hours of homework a year. That's more than 15 and a half days of homework straight. A Stanford University study shows that students with a lot of homework are not reaching their social developmental needs. When that many hours are taken out of their schedules, plus after-school sports and activities, they won't be able to hang out with friends and have a good childhood.
Muscle memory and good practice is an important part of learning anything from sports, to writing. At the end of the school day, students are tired. When kids are tired, the work that they do for homework will be sloppy and rushed. According to Oxford Learning, “After a full day of learning in class, students can become burnt out if they have too much homework. When this happens, the child may stop completing homework or rely on a parent to assist with homework. As a result, the benefits of homework are lost and grades can start to slip.” Also consider the example, if your practicing hitting a baseball or any other sport you want to hit as many as you can in good form. If you get tired and start hitting slopier, that sloppy hitting becomes a habit. It’s the same for learning. Especially when the student is learning something for the first time, they want to do it well in order to memorize the correct way to do it. You don’t want them to learn and memorize the wrong way to do something.
You might be saying, “But if my kid has no homework he/she would sit around and do nothing!” If all your kid would do is sit around all day, then you should find a sport or activity that your child loves, and let them do it with friends. One popular argument from teachers is, “But If there is no homework, how is a student supposed to finish there work?” If a class can’t finish there work at school, then there is to much work to be done. Another popular argument might be, “But kids should be learning as much as they can while their brains are still developing.”This is true, but your kid should not be learning just math, reading/writing, history, etc. They should also be learning how to interact with other humans.
A child should be able to enjoy their life as a kid and leave their title as a student at school. Kids shouldn’t be given homework because it deprives them of their time being, well, a kid. Homework is also very stressful and can negatively affect them mentally and physically. Just think about how much better your childhood could have been if you didn’t have homework. Don’t you want that for your kids?
