Essays about Homework Page 2

The average American adult works about eight hours a day, five days a week, and usually has time in the rest of the day to do chores, run errands, or even just kick back and relax. The average American child also deals with a five-day eight-hour week, but theirs is spent getting an education. Between…

Imagine that you are riding home from cross country practice, which begins immediately after school, just about to go to confirmation at church. You are stressed about not having everything you need for conformation and you still have algebra, history and your independent reading to do for homework. “Three out of four American families with…

For years on end, homework has been the norm between students and teachers. One goes to school for 7 hours, and they leave with assignments that have been given to them by their teachers to be completed outside of school. Many educators believe that these assignments will help students improve school achievement, develop responsibility and…

Did you ever stand in front of a huge pile of homework and just couldn’t concentrate on it? That happens to me a lot. In school the whole day and when you’re home at last do homework?! That’s murder! But I learned some tricks once for concentrating on homework. I never used them when I…

Kindergarteners should not have homework; first graders should not have homework; fifth grade…maybe. In this fast-paced, super-information age, children are being given more and more homework at a younger and younger age. I imagine, sometime in the near future, pre-school students will bring home some sort of “Mommy, you have to help me with this…