By: Robert Garcia
Homework is a very important aspect of a student’s life, it teaches students how to study and helps them understand what they’re learning. It teaches students how to work hard and stay diligent, helps students be organized, and forces students to be persistent in their classes. Without homework, students won’t be able to study and understand their learning.
Few students here at Redwood say that “teachers give us way too much homework” or “teachers should give us less homework, the homework is too hard” but, I think that teachers are giving us no more or less amount of homework to there students. In the article Homework In America, they share that, “68% of parents describing the homework load as about right, 20% saying there is too little homework, and 11% saying there is too much homework.” Students have the right amount of homework for their classes.
Students with AP courses and honors courses may have more homework than others as these types of classes are more rigorous and give out more homework then your regular class. However, I believe that every student with or without AP or honors adapt to their classes over time.
Juniors year is the most important year throughout high school as not only are these students presented with more difficult classes they have to deal with the ACT and SAT, but some 11th-grade students still manage to make it throughout the school year. As for freshmen, they have to adapt through high school as it will be a new experience for them, but when freshmen enter 10th grade they will get used to this new experience and will fix their mistakes they did the year before. Overall, each year we adapt to these new challenges and will get easier as the days come.
Each student has their ups and downs, however, whether their teachers give their students homework or not, it’s the homework that allowed us, students to study on our own time, to prepare for future test or quizzes, thanks to our homework we are able to understand and prepare for what the future may hold so, students freshmen or seniors, are not being overworked.