/2013/06/27/homework-how-much-are-school-students-doing-censusatschool-finds-out/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 /2013/06/27/homework-how-much-are-school-students-doing-censusatschool-finds-out/#comment-4930 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:06:00 +0000 http://new.censusatschool.org.nz/?p=4667#comment-4930 Being a year 10 student, I find this hard to read… Last night I spent four hours on homework. I never have much time for socializing or sports and am struggling with depression and sleep deprivation. My friends have given up on homework and have gotten to the point that they don’t care about detention because they’re just so sick of it. I have looked through much research (cutting sleeping and homework time) and most, if not all says that less homework benefits students, and that it’s only to ‘compete’ with other nations. In Finland, students have an average of 30 minutes of homework PER WEEK. Grades in Finland average much higher than those in Asia and America. But here in New Zealand, we think pushing students to limits like this is acceptable and will enhance our learning. IT DOES NOT. If we got less homework, students would have more time to actually study and not just “fun” assignments which I can assure you ARE NOT. Not only will students have a better life, but this will solve problems such as obesity because kids will have more time to go outside and exercise Mental health issues, because students can be social and step out of the house and be with friends to keep company and not just sit inside boiling over with emotions while frustrating over whatever the number of neutrons there are in a zirconium atom. Students won’t run into problems such as eye deterioration, from looking at a screen and textbooks all day and half the night. FYI my eye sight has decreased from prescription of -2.5 to -4 with one year and I don’t even come from a family of bad eye genes. So yay Homework totally isn’t going to deteriorate my health at all.

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