Is Homework Really Helping Us?

Its been an exhausting day at school, filled with hours of newly learned equations, difficult literature, and mentally draining studies. The ninth period bell rings. You can’t wait to go home and relax, but you are quickly reminded of all of the work and tedious studies awaiting you. Agendas piled with assignments, essays, and upcoming tests are enough to give students stress and anxiety beyond belief. Yet, the complaints of students and parents never seem to be enough to change the ways of the teachers who continually assign extremely large amounts of homework, as well as exams. 

Senior Julia Perz at Harborfields Highschool states “there is just too much homework. Most of it is busy work that teachers never check.” Homework may be beneficial to the comprehension of the subject being learned, but in the end, is it worth the countless hours of sitting alone in a room glued to books and surrounded by anxiety? 

Our teenage years are a crucial time period for not only our social development, but our mental development as well. Every second from the time arrived in the house to the time we fall asleep is spent laboriously studying to the point of sheer exhaustion. No time can be spent talking to friends or trying new opportunities. When will this endless cycle of anxiety and wasted time be stopped?

In the end, immense amounts of homework may be doing more harm than good for the mental health and happiness of the students here at Harborfields Highschool.