Top Ten Reasons Kids Hate Homework

It's so pointless. I always end up doing everything at 11 p.m. in Sunday, even if I begin first thing after school. Even if the homework is super-easy. I have eight hours of school. I stay up all night doing homework and arrive late to school. And in the end, the people that actually don't do their homework or study, still pass the final exams and pass on to the next grade. And I also hate it that my sister just goes and asks me, "Are you done already? " as if she can't see my pile of papers on the table. And sometimes too, my family is using the computer and I can't use it because that is the only electronic we have. Then at school, the teachers say, 'But go to the library, use your phone, bla bla bla.." What phone?!?! Sometimes, teachers think too modern, think that everyone has a phone because they see a little third grader with an iPhone 6s Plus or some big Samusng stuff.
We all stress out and all and in the end, it's totally boring and pointless.

I don't wanna spend 7+ hours at a desk all day, spend 2+ hours at practice for sports, and then spend the rest of my night doing a sheet of paper asking me what "x" is or how many apples Billy has after Sally stole some. Why? Homework is absolute stress and the amount of times I have legitimately cried over not knowing a problem is too much to count. Yes, teachers in our school get only an hour of lessons, so it's understandable they'd have homework. But when you do advanced EVERYTHING for your entire school career, those occasional not-finished worksheets pile up. Newsflash: Kids want to be kids. Stop shoving papers in our face and telling us it's "crucial to our education" for no other reason than to stick to standards some middle age politics guy who hasn't been to school in twenty-plus years made up.

I am sooo tired from all the homework. I am so sleep deprived that I literally doze off during class! I really want to get good grades so I study a lot and of course... Less sleep. Does good grades mean walking zombie? Think about it, we go to school for 7 hours. Come home do 4-5 hours of homework and to top is off (for me and probably many others) extra-curricular activities 4 times a week. I haven't been to the cafeteria for lunch AT ALL this year because I stay with a teacher and you know it! Do homework due the next day! I also stay after school to do homework with teachers and I fell this. WAKE UP, SCHOOL, GO HOME, HOMEWORK, EAT, SLEEP, REPEAT. I'm lucky if I sleep 6 hours a night so technically I'm working 18 hours in the day STRAIGHT. How many grown ups do that? And, the teachers have it so much easier, they're not the ones staying up all night doing homework, they carelessly assigned. I mean seriously most of the homework I do can be done DURING CLASS. So much for doctor's orders to get more sleep. What do you guys think?

Oh... it makes me and many others want to cry! Where have the carefree, blissful days without homework gone? Why did they have to give us this homework which means that we can no longer have a good time, invite friends over, play games, whatever you do for fun? Play is actually a way of learning, and it has to be a LOT more educational than homework, if we learned so much even before we went to school, how to walk, the whole human language, and we could learn a lot more if we had the time to just play!

My relatives from CA were visiting and they invited us for dinner at their house. Unfortunately, I have LOTS of homework for my 2 online classes (including studying for a quiz) and they would stay until like midnight. I could've brought my homework to do over there like my sister does but since some stuff requires the computer, I had no choice but to stay home to do homework.

I hate homework! >:(

When I get home from school, all I want is to just be a kid while I'm a kid. I have just spent 8 hours at school, and you really think what I want is another hour of it? Homework shows nothing about how smart you are, either! When you have homework, students who didn't pay attention in class can look up answers and receive a good grade. If you just relied off classwork, the students who payed attention and are actually good students would do well in class while the ones who didn't pay attention or ask questions would fall behind.

Me and my dad always fight when he helps me with my homework and it kills you as a family after homework I set in my room so I don't see dad yelling at everything it tears your family apart!

Yeh homework doesn't always help, I don't understand even half of it but I just find out the answers from somewhere so the homework is done and I don't have detention.

Most of the homework they give you, they don't even mark, in fact, they don't even take it most of the time.

I try to get exercise at home every night but every night I have homework that prevents that. Yes I get exercise at school, But that's scheduled and forced upon us. Which makes everybody that has P.E. hate it because it's forced on us. And they force us to keep going and don't let us stop when we need to. In fact there was a kid that goes to my school that had a substitute teacher that made then run the whole hour for no reason at all, He had a SEIZURE! He had no history of seizures and no health problems what so ever. When you exercise on your own time then you can stop when you need to.

I feel that having work after school does force students to balance their time wisely. And if kids do find a way to do so that fits their needs, that skill will carry on into adulthood. However, students are people too, so we want to have fun, relax, and do other things that are completely detached from school. I don't mind being at school. I absolutely HATE it only when the homework takes up all of my afternoon, leaving me with no time to go outside, read books, and work on myself. But what's most important before the workload is self discipline. I think one day students will realize that if we didn't spend so much time complaining we might finish all our work and make for ourselves the free time we so desire to have.

Teachers sometimes give homework on things that they haven't even taught. My math teacher just uses homework that another math teacher gives to his students, so my math teacher doesn't actually know what's on the homework. This makes half of the things on our homework stuff that he hasn't even taught us yet. He doesn't even have specific lesson plans like teachers SHOULD have and just kind of improvises as he goes. He's always behind in teaching us because of this.

It's probably just that you guys don't pay attention. If you listened to the teacher's instructions, you should be able to do it, but you just giggle and play. And I got a 16+ (16 is like an A) on my missions project and my teacher thinks I'm a great writer. See? I'm living up to my full potential as a 4th grade student. Plus I have a social life and friends. You guys should use your talents and learn interesting facts by doing homework.

Especially when teachers are always screaming very loudly at their students (it happened to me a lot before and look at the results, I got depressed. But thankfully I've made it out of High School).

Lack of sleep, added to not eating enough food makes us kids grouchy, and so when a parent comes along and they don't understand the homework system, the kid gets easily frustrated, thus a fiery and furious argument erupts. from experience, I know how bad these arguments are, they almost always end in tears. This arguments happen almost every night for most of us. all of this is DEFINITELY NOT at all good for both our parents' and our own mental health. I also have a very big feeling that they also are playing a major negative part in fractured families.

There is this person in my class and I mean seriously, she doesn't do ANY homework. When we are takeing our homework assignments out, it turns out she did nothing, EMPTY packet, then she looks off our papers or gets someone else to help her "so she doesn't get in trouble". Even when I was in my group, she didn't follow directions so she just copied EVERYTHING I wrote.

You do all of the work to finish a homework assignment and then there's that one student at school who doesn't do there homework at home, copy yours, and then they get a better mark on it and it is just so frustrating.

Math teacher : This year you'll have 30mins of homework each class, that's nice to have such a little time, isn't it?
Me : I'm slow in my work...
So guess what...
Every day my math homework takes at least 2 hours to complete, and most of the time it takes 3 and a half hours! So annoying!

It takes like 2 hours a day! I almost have no time to do sport! I need to skip some swimming training because otherwise, I'll go to bed at midnight!

Homework not only takes too long, but too much of it is very stressful and unhealthy.

I'm in eighth grade and I have a brother who is in sixth grade, and I am "learning" the same EXACT stuff he's learning! The homework is exactly what we "learned" in school. I'm one of the smarter people in my school (That's being humble), and I've always wondered why, and now I realize it's because while the teachers are repeating exactly what we learned last year I'm reading ahead in my textbook because I already know everything they are saying. It's so boring I read the textbook for enjoyment. Our school then doesn't give us new homework, they give us stuff we already know.
Now that my rant is over, my point is the school should do something for the more advanced kids and not keep the pace of learning at that of a retard's. ( By advanced I mean people who remember stuff more easily. )

The six week summer holiday is the only time of the year I feel I can forget about my mental health issues, but on the last week or so, my mum shouts at me if I have forgotten to do the homework due when I go back. I deliberately forget it so I can be happy. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I did nothing useful over the holidays; I practised Swedish, practised the flute, excercised, read.

But now I am entering the dark days again, where I feel my whole life and brain is out of my control and under the power of the school. I think that this year, I just won't conform, not tell my parents about any of my homework, and skip detentions. And I am usually the kid that does all the homework on the night it's set, but I want my brain and my happiness back. I want some freedom and control.

So, we have 8 hours of school then we walk out of school and feel like we want to shout "FREEDOM"! But while we go home...school seemed to grow legs and jump into a piece of paper then multiply enough to give to every student at my school...including me! and each bit of paper (now called HOMEWORK) flys over to every students home to make them stressed when they see the extra work poured out...I bet a lot of students have taken back the "FREEDOM"! thing now...honestly you just can't hide from homework, I'd rather accidentally walk into the girls bathroom without noticing! I don't know why teachers don't think we have lives, we could learn a lot more if we just had the time to play!

All these long hours spent correcting and doing homework could be spent ACTUALLY LEARNING (see more in reason 8), as well as relaxing and being happy! The fact that homework isn't teaching us anything means that all the time we spend doing homework may as well be spent walking in circles with our fingers in our ears screaming "CHEESE, CHEESE CHESE! "! And even doing that may be more productive, because it'll make us laugh, which is good for our mental health! We could use the time spent correcting homework in the classroom for a new and interesting topic, maybe even something optional for each student! If kids who aren't even in secondary school can find better ways to spend learning time, then the adults can open up their ears and eyes and realise the nonsense that is going on and make a difference!

I'm in a band, so my schedule isn't always open. We can barely practice because our drummer got grounded because he had a D in math. On top of that, we play sports, go to parties, and play instruments, we don't have time for homework.

I once had to stay home and do homework (I can't remember what it was specifically, just some useless math and English.) instead of going out to dinner with my parents and a friend whom I hadn't seen in a long time. I was so distraught. Dear teachers, WE HAVE LIVES.

On weekends sometimes we have to leave parties early because my sister has homework

Every single teacher is saying 'do this homework, do that homework and memorise it' when they literally just made us learn it off by heart! 0-0 for example, in maths we learn about angles. Everyone in my class learnt it, memorized it and wouldn't forget it. 3 minutes later...

"Here is your homework. This assignment is on angles."

Sometimes I wonder if there doing it for a joke.

That's the thing with some teachers, they give me six pages of homework and a booklet for only a 1 week holiday and then when I come back, they look at it and can't be bothered to mark it. what is the point of all that hard work...?! Teachers think they can just slack off while the students do more work. the students should paid to, it's like child labor!

Ok back in Grade 4, I had this teacher (I didn't get homework so thankful for the teacher) but she said, "Your parents are e-mailing me saying they want more homework." And I was sitting there like 😦 wow and then I asked my mom if that was her and she said no. I was like yeah right. But I'm disappointed in those parents who want to give their kids torture.they need to learn if they want their kid to like them then DON'T ASK FOR HOMEWORK!

Most my teachers say they wouldn't give out homework if it was there choice,98% of parents are responsible for homework being given out

Our parents are lied to by the teachers. They are tricked into believing that homework is good for us when it's the opposite. They don't know that it affects our sleep and health. I speak for the kids of America.

Thank god my parents ain't like that. Basically, if you haven't done your homework, they'll brainwash parents into think homework is good for us and make parents ground their kids just because of that.

My mum is a teacher and she says that homework is good and she sometimes ayes me more homework! Whereas my dad doesn't like it. Parents shouldn't join with teachers! Or be one in my case!

My reaction to my alarm clock at 4 am: SHUT UP *picks up clock, goes outside, throws it right into the neighbors trash can! SCOREEE* Going to school! * gets on broken ass bike, rides up, all of the breaks are broken. Goes into bin, finds alarm clock and takes it back out. Puts in bag* last minutes of daily school! Out loud (occasionally) only 5 more minutes of torture *gets detention*

Plus 802 hours of homework a week and teenagers need to work and I'm in a band so I have NO time.

No, it's because the teachers don't want us to enjoy our childhoods.

At school we learn math, language, religon, french, art, drama, history etc. You get the point. Teachers "congrats" you made my life terrible. We learn so much at school that homework seems pointless. in the end we wonder why did we just do 16 hours of school. It is just like being at school for 10 days a week insted of just 5 days a week! STOP GIVING OUT HOMEWORK!

You probably mistake our pleas for help with whining, when in reality, we work harder than adults in most situations. I do believe that you would reevaluate your statement, if you were working your crummy office job (if you have even that) for eight hours, and then having to work more when you return to your home, amidst distractions, family, friends, and the fight against hunger and fatigue. Get your facts straight.

I'm imagining my textbook crying because I don't like it.

What? Present your hypothesis. Who are whiny?