Durr... Where would I start with this.. So much to correct and do a statement about!
Homework is ruining the lives of kids everywhere! It can mess up a child's health."
-Homework can be fun, admittedly all those never ending calculus where you repeat the same formula again and again is dulling, but these help you to learn to use the formula if you have not learned it during the lesson.
-Since when being smart has have had physical implications?
If you stay up and do homework, your staying up later, which means your sleeping less. When anyone below 18 doesn't sleep the required 8-12 hours, it can stun your growth. If you have a cold, it will last longer. Just because you don't get to sleep.
How about doing your homeworks after school right when you arrive to home, this way you should be done before you go to bed. And seeing the person doing this petition is roughly between ages of 13 and 15, latest research show that at this age child sleeping pattern goes off two hours from 10pm to 12pm and ideal amount of sleep is two REM-cycles That is usually 8hrs (For me it is 6hrs since my REM-cycle has always been shorter). Lag of sleep does stunt a your growth little, but most of physical growing is factored by, genes, diet, activity (In different quality and amounts), sleep. If you have cold sleeping is good since you fell physically tired, but your body can fight off the common cold by just being relaxed, only real danger if you are having cold is physical exercise.
When i do homework, i do it fast so i can sleep, but I don't learn anything. Even in math, I don't learn anything... Homework Messes Kids up and Should NOT be tolerated.
-Have you tried listening during class and learn the basics of the subject you are studying at the moment, when you know how to solve a basic puzzle, you'll realize that complicated puzzle is just a basic puzzle in bigger scale.
It also encourages obesity.Notice that America has the most obesity in children. Why do think that is? Fast food? Yes that helps, but if kids had more time to go outside, and more time to exersize, than the obesity rate would drop considerably. Most Kids that are obese are smart and do all there homework, therefore, by the time there done, they wouldn't be able to go outside or even go on a treadmill, it would be bedtime. By assigning homework, you are supporting obesity in children.
-I have never been active child, I have never had sport hobby (If you don't count being in a wind band where have have 3-4 marches a year). Still I am on ideal weight to my height and I have lost 6kilos, while studying, working and having hobbies in which all the common factor is sitting long periods of times. Want to know how I lost all that weight. Simple, I removed all sweets, sugar drinks from my diet and I mined what I ate (1 hot mean a day with 1/4th of carps, 1/4th of proteins, 1/2 greens + 2 glasses of milk).
-You trying to say that American students are both fat and smart, average student is fat granted, but smart? Sorry PISA exams are not agreeing with you. What I last heard from my friends in the "perfect country of yours" schools been canceling vacations and other extra activities to prepare their students for exams. Want to have shorter school days, better numbers and more activities in school? Here's how you do it, get you whole school to do their home works, improve their scores and follow during classes so schools don't have to force you so much homework and extra studies.
-So if you do homeworks, you get fat then you can't go to army and protect your country from terrorist, they win? That is like diamond of inductive thinking.
Has anyone ever told you? When your a kid, its the best 17 years of your life. You should cherish your freedom. What freedom? Freedom to do school work out of school? Yes, children should get good work habits, so instead of written work, maybe tell them to go outside and play kick ball and have a parent sign a slip. By having to get something signed, it would enforce commitment, which is something the USA lacks.
-I can tell you that my life between ages of 6 and 15 was the most horrible days I have ever had (Than Atheismo they are over!), why? I was mentally and physically bullied, in and out side of school. Yeah try cherishing that, so what did I do about it. I studied really hard and did my homeworks so after school I got to study somewhere FAR AWAY of the bullies. My average was 8.2 theirs were 5.2 (In Finnish scoring 4 is lowest 10 is highest).
-So to learn good work habits you must be taught to delegate your work to someone else? You realize that when your guardians sign a paper they are doing what you should be doing. When you go to work-life I can ensure you, there will be papers, there will be reading and there will be writing.
-Agreed USA is lagging commitment, children are not taking any responsibility of
THEIR schoolwork and by that they are not taking responsibility of their future.
Save the homework for when your in college, not kids and teenagers. Let them Cherrish there childhood, because thats somthing they'll never get back.
-Well, my homework load went down when I got to college (Gymnasium in Finland), how I been spending my last 2 years studying: I have gone lot to movies/theater (Finnish course and Drama classes), I have done great deal of essays and studies about Philosophy and History, Which both were completed in under 8hrs (I am hard working guy), I been doing my math homework but still I keep getting low score? What I do? I compensate by doing better in the other classes (Humanistic science, Drama and Media).
-By definition you are teenager when you are between ages 13-19.
-I have had lot of fun in school, my whole life goes around school, It is fun to go there, be there and then after hard working day go to home and relax. Tho this might be because of Finnish work ethics and culture where working hard is respected. Compared to the American dream of "I want to do as little I can to achieve whatever I want", quite an opposite here. That might explain why Finland has had THE BEST PISA scores since the Finland took part in the system.
In short:
-You are lazy.
-Take responsibility of your life.
-Learn to do timetables and organize.
-Focus in school.
-Do your homework before you do stupid claims.
-You need to learn to work and how you learn, by working and then doing your homework.
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Go back to school and focus 
