Every ones talking about cranky teens when in reality we are just over stressed and not getting enough sleep. These days it seems like teachers are having competitions with each other to see who can give the most homework therefore; students are having a hard time doing extracurricular activities and balancing homework all in one night. All of these issues have one cause to blame and that my friend is homework. And that is why as students, we believe that homework should be abolished. Life of a student is a very stressful one, as you drag yourself to school around 7:40 you desperately try to find friends that have completed a large sum of the mound of homework we were given the day before.
Studies show that students who are over-age for their class was held back a grade level. Not completing assignments, late work, or just missing class led up to being held back a grade. Over-age students seem to need more help in the classroom, than the regular students. Adolescents pick many excuses to drop out of school. Being bored and frustrated with class, many teens say school is irrelevant to
Since 1971 education cost has increased from $4,300 to more than $9,000 per student. As seen in Bianca's case, her mother cannot afford to pay for her tuition and Daisy's father is unemployed. These kids are forced into "bad education." Some students do not have any aspirations. They live in a neighborhood full of crime therefore their main focus is survival instead of learning.
Mise 1 An Epidemic of Single Household and Blended Families As she prepares for yet another math exam within a 2 week period, she can’t help but to think about the problem facing her at home instead of math. The thought of failing the exam is the least bit of her worries because she’s constantly thinking about how she feels like a stranger in her new home. Since her transfer from California to New York, her life for her and her 10 year old brother has been like a rollercoaster. Their lives have changed drastically in the last four months with trying to adjust to a new state, home and school. She has to cope with her feelings of abandonment, frustration and state of despair.
Junior was born with too much fluid around his brain which caused him to have a big head. Junior describes himself as slender, with big feet and hands. For this reason, his peers called him “orbit”. Next, Junior finds his mother’s name on a geometry book that he is supposed to be using for his own geometry class. “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents study from; that is absolutely the saddest thing in the world”.
Is Homework Overpowering Students? All around the country, students from year 8 to year 14 are victims of an overload of busy work to stuff into their schoolbags to take home and complete. With the opinion that this work needed to be done outside of school is beneficial and will reinforce the subjects that were just taught, teachers are assigning students at least thirty minutes of homework per subject, resulting in a ridiculous pile-up of work for all subjects. The school system is unjustified in allowing teachers to give unlimited amounts of homework because they don’t take into consideration the things students deal with outside of school and it ends up having negative effects on children mentally, physically, and emotionally. As students get older, the amount of work they receive gets larger.
Studies show that thirty-two hours a year are spent by teachers on the topic of bullying in classrooms. Without bullying, teachers would just have to waste more time assigning pointless homework and grading countless papers that end up not helping students in the first place. Plus, to my account, bullying can bring humor to the classrooms
Students always worry about what is going to be on the test, and students think they will get bad grades on the test. All of this can lead students to feeling upset. If students keep crazy hours from staying up late and getting up early for classes, they will have an enormous stress. Worrying too much about their grades can cause to experience stress. In Conclusion, There are three major causes of the stress, which are transportation, financial problems, and classes.
Geoffrey Canada- “I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.” “Because when there’s a great public school, there isn’t enough space, and so we do what’s fair, we place our children and their future in the hands of luck.” “This thing is an utter failure.” Since 1971education spending in the US has risen from 4300 dollars to more than 9000 per student Describe school to me from the inside Walking in you’ll see a desk with a security guard 3rd largest overcrowded school in the district. Public education is only option they have. “I don’t care what I have to do, I don’t care how many jobs I have to work, she will go to college, there’s just no second-guessing on that one.” Worst scores for reading are in
New industrial techniques, weapons, and successful economy were changes that were key factors in the world's most violent strife. A simple scenario that has occurred countless times is set in the classroom. The minute a new substitute teacher walks into class, the students erupt in chaotic fashion. In my Sophomore year of high school, my English teacher was on maternity left the class with a long-term substitute teacher. The teacher was quite lax and oftentimes, half of the class will not show up.