Homework Stress

A University of Michigan study last year found homework increasing overall from 1981 to 1997, with the biggest increase falling on students aged 6 to 8, whose homework load tripled. Piscataway is one of many school districts to ban or severely limit homework across the country. The school board in this district of about 7,000 students limited it on weeknights, from 30 minutes in elementary school to two hours in high school, "discouraged" homework on weekends, and prohibited teachers from grading …

…doubted whether he was even learning from it. "If you have six hours of homework, you're not doing it to learn, you're doing it to get it done," she said. Homework has been an increasing problem for students across the country. Despite what some educational analysts may believe, the limits in homework have helped countless families live a normal life. It was just a matter of time before someone stood up to the school districts.