Hello my name is Ellie Richard and I'm currently attending Middle School at Shattuck and like all other teenagers in Middle school, I have to deal with excessive amounts of homework every night. Now before I go let me ask a question. Have you ever woke up at 6 in the morning. Got to school at 8 AM. Stayed at school until 3 PM. Got home at 4 PM and did homework for 3 hours. Now granted its only 7 pm. By the time were done with all that but then we have to go and get everything ready for the next day shower and normally were asleep by then. Now the reason homework is so important is so the teachers can have something else to grade us on. To make sure were understanding what were doing, In case they don't have time to check and see during class. However, the extreme amounts of homework have gotten crazy. homework was not made to grade but to keep peoples minds going after they leave the classroom. In Reality however, all the jeeps of homework are doing is making kids less motivated. In other words we spend about 10 minutes everyday in the beginning of every class going over last nights homework and turning it in. Then the last ten minutes are used for getting a head start on tonight's homework. That right there is 20 minutes a class that you didn't get to use learning. In a week that's almost two hours. So you would get an extra 2 classes a week to teach us. And if there was no homework there isn't a student around who wouldn't mind an extra ten minutes of class with no homework. Because then they would be able to get all there work done in class and not have to worry about it when they get home. That's the main reason that students drop out and fail. Because throughout my experience of school the majority of failing students that iv'e spoken with understand the material they just loose interest do to too much homework. Because they feel like they have no time for you have a life so instead of sitting inside all night they say to help with homework and go hang out with friends. ( Who also are ditching there homework.)

PLEASE if you agree with what I am saying then spread the word copy and paste my link: www.ipetitions.com/petition/endhomework Please if we can get this around we can get enough signatures to start a liguet campaign