Photo Credit: Den Echoes archive[/caption]Most teens in high school care about their grades. They care about getting into college, getting a good job, and being able to supply what their family needs. But can they do that if school is too stressful and they can’t get their work turned in on time? Do they fail because of their stress?
OHS freshman Maddie Fedor is 15 years old. She is a straight “A” student with plans to attend college and have a family. But, like most of the other freshmen, she struggles with getting her work done and turned in on time. She says, “My hardest class is Biology.”
Her biology teacher’s name is Andromeda Crowell. Crowell taught all honors classes first semester.
“It’s not that the content itself is hard, it's the amount of work she gives is a lot,“ Fedor says. Most kids agree that classwork and homework are both things that are hard to get finished and turned in on time. But why? Are we too busy doing other things to get it done? Or is it that we are just too lazy to actually finish it?
Some teachers have gotten rid of homework. They think that it's useless to give if kids don't even do it. If the kids don’t take the opportunity to get extra practice, then why kill the trees for paper?
Doing homework could take your attention away from studying for finals, and it could keep you up for hours. However, it's also a good way to get extra practice on what you might have been doing in class that day. When is too much homework too much?
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