Harris Cooper, a psychology and neuroscience professor at Duke University, once said that “homework is like medicine… if you take too much, it can kill you.” Cooper has been studying the effects of homework for 30 years. In this quote, he states that the amount of homework facing today’s students is way too much. Because of that, the students are dying of a homework overdose. This homework overdose has proven to have consequences of its own. Schools everywhere should not assign homework to their students on a daily basis because it will give the students more free time, homework diminishes interest in learning, and it will also reduce stress for the students and parents alike.
Saying goodbye to homework will increase the amount of free time…show more content… Students in higher grades receive an overwhelming amount of homework. This amount of homework can lead to stress and other problems that can affect the student’s health. They students can develop high blood pressure, headaches, and depression and anxiety. Therefore, affecting their performance. Because “we have become a society obsessed with test score- obsessed with percentages in schools” (French), a lot of pressure is put on the students. Homework adds to the already overwhelming pressure put on academic performance. In the article Is a Homework Backlash Brewing?, the author believes that “if there was less homework assignments for the [students] to do, there would be less drop-outs as kids get older” because the older the kids get the more homework they receive and the more stress they develop. In fact, a parent commented that she believes that “less homework assignments… would probably lead to less drop-outs as kids get older” (Baskin) because stress is one of the many causes of drop-outs. This would also guarantee the kids of today a better future. To reduce the stress level mounting on the students of today, schools should get rid of homework. The students would benefit by “just having additional time to practice later in the day” (Rahtke) for their upcoming test and quizzes in
