I don’t think it’s too much, however I do have a class and the teacher randomly selects 6-10 people to turn in a 2 page paper every week about the book or article (and no I’m not talking about some dinky time article, they’re from journals that are between 60 and 90 pages long). It really makes the kids in the class who are doing all the work very stressed out, because if something happens and I can’t make it to the library to read this paper I loose 10% of my grade. I understand that she wants us to read all of the materials for class, but if we have to read all of it, she should have to read all of our papers as well. But elementry school kids don’t get too much homework in my opinion (my niece and nephew are in grades 1 and 4). I’ve honestly never seen my boyfriends brother do homework (hes in 8th grade) and his other brother who is in high school comes home from school and does his homework and still has time to work and hang out with friends if he wants too (he’s in 11th grade). I can only see homework being too much if it takes up too much time, if a kid gets home from school at 3 and is still doing homework by 10 without messing around, there’s an issue. Or if what was assigned in class was something that was not explained in class. It’s very fustrating trying to figure out what a teacher or professor want when they don’t explain things clearly.

It seems to vary widely.

Some people report their kids not really ever having any homework. Sometimes those kids are just really strong students, which means that the other kids DO have homework; the strong kids have simply completed all the work. Other times, the general work load just isn’t high and barely anybody has homework.

Around here, too much homework is the rule by most teachers, it seems. They like to say for grades 1-3, about 15 minutes a night; grades 4-6, about 30-45 minutes of homework a night and plan for that to happen–they essentially make it impossible to finish all the work at school (although, why? haven’t the kids already been at school for 7 hours??).

That only works for the kids who are slightly above average. The kids who are above average may not have homework or it may only take them 10 minutes. The kids who are average or below average have those 30-45 minutes easily turn into 1-1.5 (sometimes 2) hours. You can imagine what happens when those kids get to high school and the general thinking among teachers is that high school kids should have 1.5 hours of homework a night (which often ends up meaning more than that because the English teacher figures s/he can assign an hour of homework, then the math teacher figures s/he can assign an hour of homework and so on).

If the below average kids have any hope of improving, they have to spend not only the extra time that it takes them to complete the same work (which many kids have given up on by the time they’re in high school), but extra time to simply master everything.

I think it’s impossible to have an across the board “this amount is too much”. I certainly think it’s ridiculous that many elementary students are spending an average of 1-1.5 hours a night doing homework. They’re kids. Adults get paid overtime for working extra in the evenings, yet kids simply get punished in one way or another for not complying to something they never agreed to do in the first place; or they spend their evenings doing homework.

I don’t know your age… but anyway, yes, I think that on the whole, homework is too much. Children need to spend time with their families and community. Kids who leave on a bus at 7:00 in the morning and don’t return home until 3:00 should not have an hour or more of homework to do. They should be able to decompress and eat dinner with their family, and then have some nice “family time” in the evening.

We hosted a German exchange student last year, and she was surprised at the amount of “busy work” that American students are expected to do. They go through their books fairly slowly, and then have hours of work to do at night. What is the point of doing 30 math problems when the concept is cemented after 5 or 6 problems?

Of course, I homeschool, so I have a different view on education than most, so take that for what it’s worth. There are more important things than rote memorization and busy work, IMO.

i’m a instructor and that i think in no longer assigning homework over the weekend contained in relation to reinforcing what became taught on Friday. maximum homework assigned on the weekend isn’t accomplished on a Friday afternoon yet relatively of a Sunday nighttime. by ability of that element maximum young ones have forgotten what became taught to them on Friday and the homework turns right into a disaster for the two mum and dad and baby. the only homework that I assign on the weekends is a undertaking that the scholars have sufficient quantity of time to paintings on.

I’m 16 (a junior). I personally think that we sometimes get too much homework. I’m in all AP classes though, so that may be the reason. I think an assignment from every class per day is way too much.

I think students are sometimes being assigned to much hmwork.I think that teachers are irrational regardless if they are doiing thier job.some students have so much homework 6 classes worth and assignments are time consuming and are critical thinking.I believe some teachers over do it wi th the english and math assignments and honestly if they are learning as much in the class there should be no need for that much hmwork

I think it depends on the teacher. I also think it depends on the kind of work it is. If’s it’s just drill work, then it has no place in my home, unless that particular student is lacking the basic math facts for example. I don’t believe though in giving 50 math problems when you can review the skills with 10.

When I was in HS, I thought I had too much homework, but this really prepared me with the requirements of a full time workload at the college level. What I didn’t get a lot of was reading, and this I would’ve prefered, since back in college I had to do about 75% reading and the rest was writing.

This is a never ending battle between teachers and parents, and it will continue until someone takes a radical move like NO HOMEWORK in school type of approach, then we will be doing our students a disservice.

You might do better if you ask this question in parenting under grade schooler. That’s just a suggestion. =)

My son is in fourth grade and is nine years old. He has two sheets of homework each night. It takes him 15 minutes to do it all.

Personally, I think homework is a good ideal. Most parents on here complain that thier kids get “too much”. I don’t agree. I think my son could benefit from a bit more. I have seen few examples on Yahoo that are really too much.

I think too much would be more than four or five papers for a child of my son’s age.

Of course, nobody really agrees with me. LOL

Depends on the grade level… if you think high schoolers have too much homework, talk to them when they attend a university.

hi im in 8th grade. At our school we get alot of home work on some day and very less the other… just depends on what were doin..