Ninth grade students in Stephanie Hurt’s English class at Brodhead High School have participated in the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community-Ready Writer’s Program (C3WP) all year. Students learned to consider multiple perspectives around an issue and to write evidence-based arguments asking for change. For their final argument, students chose an issue they care about, researched the conversation surrounding the issue, and wrote an evidence-based letter to a real audience, such as these letters to the editor. 

From Sabain Blang

Brodhead High School

To the editor:

Have you been feeling like school has been getting harder and harder or have your grades been getting worse? Well, it might not be your fault. Ask yourself this. Have I been getting too much homework? If you have the school could be to blame. If they give you too much homework it is negative. You can’t give your brain time to relax and refresh in order to absorb new information from school and that can affect your grades and make school more difficult.

First, let me give you the point of homework. The point of homework is to help you learn the information by repeating it. Homework was invented in Italy in 1905 by Roberto Nevilis and he had it as punishment for his students. When he first started giving homework he gave a little like study the alphabet or study these numbers. Over time it has gotten to be more. They give you a worksheet work on your math and do your English on the same night. But today homework is much more streamlined because of the internet teachers and students can access the homework from anywhere.

School’s should be a lot more thoughtful of the student’s homework to make everyone’s life’s lot easier. The teachers would have an easier time teaching, and the students would pay more attention so they would get better grades and have a better chance at college. Students would have less stress so fewer people would be sick from school just to have less stress for a day. Fewer students would fake being sick to get out of school and would hopefully enjoy school more than right now. Some of my teachers hate homework too because they have more work from having to grade the homework.

In conclusion, schools should be more wary about homework and the effect on the students or teachers. This is not me saying to ban homework this is me saying to restrict homework to an amount per day. Always remember homework is there to help. But too much of anything is bad.