During the school year, weekends are the only time students can have free time to spend with their family and friends, unlike weekdays when students are piled on with loads of homework given by teachers. Students should not have homework on the weekends because it interferes with other obligations such as the time you can spend relaxing with family, resting, and studying the knowledge previously learned that week.
On a typical school night, a high school student spends around two hours, at a minimum each night on homework, according to a survey from directhit.com. During weekdays students miss out on sleep, socializing, and crucial family time. If a person spends all their time doing homework Monday through Thursday, there should be a break on the weekend for time to catch up on things missed during the week.
During the week, children and family do not spend quality time together because of six hour school day, which is followed up by extracurricular activities and homework. Parents too long forward to weekend, since they have jobs during the week that demands much of their own time.
Although some believe that homework creates bonding time between parents and students, since parents can aid in their child’s school work, many other parents believe that homework is stressful on kids, and when it comes to the weekend, that time should go towards strengthening the family connection, not doing homework.
Many students are involved in extracurricular activities, sports or even work hours on school nights. This causes students to get home from school late. Kids don’t usually start homework right away; they take care of other priorities first, pushing their homework further into the night.
“After I get home from volleyball, I go right into the shower and eat dinner with my family. By the time everything’s settled, I can’t usually start my hours of homework till 8:30 p.m,” said Danielle Montgomery.
Many other students are put into this situation also cutting down on crucial needed sleep during the week to do well in school the next day. By having this same routine every weekday, when the weekend finally arrives, a student is run down on energy and missing out on a lot of sleep. Knowing that they are free of homework on
those days brings a huge relief and allows them to finally rest and regain energy.
Being assigned loads of homework during a time that you could rest, does not allow you to do so.
Some people may say that with better time management, the student can get his or her homework done in the time needed to still allow a decent night’s sleep. If extra time is needed on an assignment, they can squeeze it in at lunch or even in another class that allows some free time. When kids try to figure out how to get everything done, but fail, they get discouraged and their work ethic is affected. They have no choice but to stay up late into the evening making sure everything is done for the next day.
Another important argument is that students have other obligations such as church, Sunday school, or sporting events that if they have homework on the weekends, it would prevent them from attending any of them.
Some say this is a lesson that has to be learned, and gives good practice for
Future events, since an adult may be called into work, or have to finish something for a job on the weekends even though he or she has off. Having homework on the weekends as a teen helps you learn responsibility of when to choose work over other plans in the real world. Although it would be good practice for a kid, now isn’t the time to learn because they should enjoy their childhood while they still have it.
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jo troto • May 10, 2023 at 3:49 pm
I think homework should not be on weekends because it is boring.
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STIFFY SPIDER-MAN • Mar 22, 2022 at 2:14 pm
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ewwdk • Oct 23, 2021 at 9:19 pm
lol I do 4 hours of homework every single day including weekends. I also have club meetings every week so by the time I am done with everything its already 2:00AM. My teachers are just slacking off and they teach us nothing in class. All they do is assign loads of homework expecting us to have our ten assignments turned in by Monday.
Adam Ball • Jul 26, 2021 at 11:24 am
Students should do homework Monday through Thursday not Monday through Friday. Homework didn’t belong in My Friday Routine. So my parents pulled me Out of Griffin in November 2004. Monday Through Friday Homework is too Stressful. It’s more Homework than anyone can Handle.
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Eliott • May 22, 2021 at 4:15 pm
my spanish teacher didn’t warn us that we had any work for the weekend, on Monday she asked if we submitted our ten assignments, thenn proceeded to give us 7 for the week, it all took me 32 hours to catch up, i also got behind on my other classes
paul ryan • May 20, 2021 at 6:26 pm
yeah I’m a middle school student with quite a bad track record of missing assignments, and I’ll admit that is due to laziness and procrastination. and when I have to work on them during the weekend and there’s also regular homework too, it’s just exponential stress.
(not showing my name) • May 2, 2021 at 11:30 am
Weekends are meant for relaxation. If teachers will give us homework on the weekends, why not just send us into school on Saturdays and Sundays? Those two options are on the same level in my opinion, since weekend homework typically takes MUCH longer than traditional weekday homework.
Yusuf • Apr 23, 2021 at 9:59 am
I agree with all of you. Having school on the weekends is annoying and stressful. I can’t watch a movie on Sundays without stressing on the fact that I have homework to do. I’m always staying up till 12 am to finish up. I want to relax on the weekends rather than stress and have anxiety. Yes, I get anxiety because of homework. I wish we could only be assigned homework on the weekdays but not Friday, since that’s basically the start of the weekend. Sometimes i’m so tired and there is so much work to do I just don’t even do it. I let it be a missing assignment for a couple of days while i’m finishing it up on the weekdays. But normally that wouldn’t even be an option to finish and get an extra day because the teachers have it marked missing. The only class where I didn’t get any homework was Spanish class, which didn’t give me stress because of my nice teacher.
mm • Apr 5, 2021 at 8:24 pm
Homework should not be on the weekend because that can lead you to be behind in class as a middle schooler it can affect metal qulitys and it does not help that there is homework on the weekend it does NOT make you smarter it just stresses people out and makes you get behind in class.
Lol no • Mar 21, 2021 at 8:28 pm
Wasn’t the whole point of weekends to not have a bunch of stuff to do? Why they gotta give so much homework I’m ok with school but I CAN’T DEAL WITH HOMEWORK ON THE WEEKENDS.
(who cares abt my name) • Feb 21, 2021 at 8:03 pm
Im doing homework non-stop all day every day even on weekends and I feel like it’s gonna go on forever they give me way too much homework at least 3-4 assignments every day and I have past due assignments also to do and its so insanely stressful and I can’t even do anything and I could barely play with my puppy and I never get a day off or free time like youtube or video games or something. And it takes me so long to do the assignments bc its really long and its super hard. Im in 7th grade.
( not gonna say my name ) • Feb 11, 2021 at 11:11 am
I dont think that after 5 days of working I should have more work on the day I’m suppose to be relaxing.
Beren • Jan 8, 2021 at 1:08 pm
I always do my homeworks
Amber Keller • Apr 16, 2020 at 9:20 pm
I think homework should be reserved on weekdays only because after a full 5 day school week you would like to have some free time and go to a friend’s house.
Can’tSayMyName • Apr 4, 2020 at 2:54 pm
I agree, it’s especially stressful when you not only have homework to make up from being sick, and you have to study for old and new tests.
Hazel • Mar 3, 2020 at 9:46 pm
I agree that homework should not be given on weekends. I often want to relax on the weekend and don’t want to do school work on my time off. Teachers need to realize that high schoolers have a social life and need a break from school on the weekends. Or we can have just a four day week at school 🙂
sandy • Feb 12, 2020 at 11:41 am
i wake up at six in the morning and drag my self out of bed just to go to school, then i come back and at least do one hour of homework, then i do housework, and then sleep and do all of that for the rest of the week. And especially on the weekends doing that will just take all the fun out of it.
Maddox • Feb 5, 2020 at 12:37 pm
Homework is so stressful i play sports and when i come home I have to do algebra homework for 2 hours. If i went on a family trip i could actually be able to catch up if there wasn’t extra homework from school.
matt • Jan 31, 2020 at 9:33 am
I agree with all of you. Hw on the weekends kills me bc I can’t go on any family trips.
devan • Jan 21, 2020 at 4:06 pm
i am a student and i think the idea of home work on the weekend is dumb its like never ending school and it gives to much worry about ” how will i finish all this”
Yung Anthony • Oct 22, 2019 at 5:47 am
I’m stressed bro.
Alexa Danley • Oct 14, 2019 at 11:34 pm
This particular weekend was a four day weekend, and I just finished everything up. It’s 1am. I have been working on it for the past 3 days for about 5 hours each day. I had soccer on Saturday and Monday, and church on Sunday.
Hamzah Shaif • Sep 1, 2019 at 10:05 pm
My son has been given of 24 pages of homework this 3 day weekend. He has put 24 hours so far into his homework, but he estimates tha tomorrow he will have 6 hours more at least of homwork. He has not been able to go on family trips, much less leave his room. The Ironic part is that it is Labor Day,
Matthias Scunter • Sep 25, 2018 at 10:44 am
Me: I have homework.
Dad: idc come here boi
Me: no!
bob davis • Nov 2, 2011 at 10:08 am
i think that there should be no hw on weekends because i am a student and it is very stressful to come home and have to do more school work. it is never ending school.