Why do teachers give homework and does it even help?”Ideally homework should be about taking something home, spending a few curious and interesting moments in which children might engage with parents, and then getting that project back to school — an organizational triumph," she says. "A nag-free activity could engage family time: Ask a parent about his or her own childhood. Interview siblings." Teachers give too much non effective homework. Margot Steinberg of White Plains, whose children are in the Ardsley district, said: ''The kids get so much homework, they're not getting something out of it. They're doing it to get it done.''If this were to happen in our school there would be a tremendous change and happier students.
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If only dropping homework could make these things happen! If less homework was given then students could have time to do more extra curricular activities like sports and clubs.”If a kid has three baseball practices a week, which consumes 2.5 hours of his Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons, how do you think he or she feels? He or she would obviously feel very tired, right? But, now imagine if that same kid had two hours of homework three of the five days that he or she has school. He or she would feel exhausted, stressed, and maybe depressed after weeks of this. Now, too much of this school work, along with hours of sports activities, can start to consume a child's late afternoons, weekends, and even nights. Pursuing this further, now the same kid is having trouble with homework, feeling stressed with the amount given,