BY ANTANY KIMBROUGH, Junior
BLYTHEWOOD -- When a student first starts school they typically do not know what to expect in that regard students constantly ask themselves if they will be assigned an abundance of work to do, usually the answers com clear after students finish their first year.
According to The Brookings Institution, students from ages 5-17 are given workloads that take more than two hours or longer to do only about 5%-13% of the time, this rate increases up to 13% as the student proceeds through their education.
Students from that same age group have absolutely no homework 13%-22% of the time and about 91% of parents believe their child's homework load is at least fair, the remaining 9% believe its unreasonable, these ratings have not changed significantly since 1987.
"Teachers always say they don't give a lot," junior Eric Ortuno said.
It's a common idea between parents and students because the student receives the work while the parent observes their child's behavior to it.
"My children are given work about four out of the five days they are at school. The other remaining day they would have no work, this day would usually fall on Friday," the mother of a Richland2 student, Tasha Kimbrough said.
Referring back to the researched information, clearly, Kimbrough and Ortuno fall into the minority in this topic. Seeing as to how they both feel that students receive too much work, this can be confirmed.
"Teachers typically only think about what they are trying to get through to a student, less on what other classes are giving them," Kimbrough said.
Kimbrough has a wide view on what students reasons are for receiving so much homework, are we can assume this view is true based on what Ortuno says.
"I'm given at least one assignment from most classes," Ortuno said.
This statement proves the previous point about how teachers don't think about students other classes, and how the homework fits into their schedule.
The results are not proportionate, they don't in any way shape or form fit the researched information from Brookings. Students are receiving an abundance of work to do and the parents are not satisfied with their student's workload, which shows the minority of what was researched
