After our in-class lesson, I decided to do a little more research on schools and stress. According to this article, the rate of depression is four times higher in people who do three or more hours of homework. While the article talks about how parents often compound this stress by pushing their students to succeed in school, it also notes that this is certainty not the only cause of stress. In class, we briefly talked about how the school environment greatly builds stress in students. We talked about the pressure to take high-level courses and do extra-curricular activities in class, but I think there is more to the issue. A number of sophomores that I know took MEHAP because they didn't know what they were getting into, and have been very stressed out these past two weeks, as well as somewhat stressed out for the entire year because of the course load. If schools had a way for students to judge and know about homework load other than by asking upperclassmen, a huge amount of this stress could be eliminated, resulting in a healthier and happier school. While there is no perfect solution, what do you guys think could help solve this issue of high stress in school?
While I think that finding a way for the school to tell students the homework load would be super helpful, I don't think it's realistic. Since each person takes a different amount of time completing homework and each teacher assigns different things, it's hard to give students an example/estimate of the type or duration of homework.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it would help for students to know the homework load, however, I agree with Leena that it depends each person and the teacher they have. Also, I agree that parental pressure as well as self-pressure cause students to take more advanced courses, which lead to more homework, and more stress
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