The Battle of Homework

        Everyday, billions of adolescents walk home with book-bags weighing millions of pounds stuffed with papers, books and utensils that they are going to need for their homework every night.  Homework directly translates to pain and suffering.  This torture is implemented upon students by the teachers on a daily, never-ending basis.  This constant battle between the teachers and the students has a very negative impact on both of their lives.  Homework is something that should be eliminated due to the mental stress it causes for both the givers and receivers, it harms more than it helps, and creates a waste of time and has an overall negative effect.  

        The most obvious reason for homework to be rid of is the high amounts of mental stress that is brought about by it.  According to Doctor Smith from ABC Medical Center, mental stress is the damage on the brain due to an extreme external interference with the normal psychological equilibrium of a human being that results in a dramatic change in physical health, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, and depression.  Think of the poor children that experience this struggle every single day of the school year.  They go through the pain and suffering of getting a failing grade, losing sleep and being separated from everyday life, all because of their homework.  

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        Although it may not be realized, homework has more negative effects than positive.  It is said that homework is given with the intentions of helping the students better enhance their knowledge of what they are taught during the day.  Teachers give homework, thinking that it is going to make life easier for them in the long run.  They could not be more wrong! They believe that regardless of the short-term consequences that the students face, it will benefit them in the long run.  However, recent studies have shown that the teachers forcing this unnecessary work upon the lives of children, ...

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