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1. Less Homework for School Children 
Children across Australia, from as young as six years old are bringing home school work.
Some schools are giving students over two hours of homework each week night and more on weekends.
Children and youth are attending school for six hours a day. When you calculate their homework load on top of that they are working the equivalent of an average adult working day, somtimes more. This is stopping many of them from pursuing childhood activities like playing while it is still light outside, social activities, sports and participating in quality family time.
Then there is the addition of performance anxiety when doing assessment and assignment tasks and exam stress throughout high school.
The unrealistic workload for children and high expectations to perform academically for youth is having an emotional and psychologic effect on them and their families.
2. Homework line for Hudson Middle School students and parents
When my child was in the 5th grade he had a teacher that had a homework line, so if I thought for one moment that my son had homework when he told me he didn't, I called the homework line the teacher had set up and I heard a recording from that teacher what they did in class and what homework my son had.
A homework line would be beneficial in 3 ways;
1.) Parents can call to get the homework for the day,
2.) Children can call to make sure they wrote down all of their homework and didn't miss anything,
3.) Children can call if they are absent and do not want to get behind they can get that days assignments.
3. N-M-H
Stop Home-Work now, Sign if you agree with me, and then I will show all Secondary Schools this Website, This will have to make all Secondary Schools Stop this Home-Work business.
Thank you for helping out 11-16 Year olds, And of course me, Seeing as I'm only 12. But please take me Seariously, And >> SIGN <<
4. Ban Homework in Victorian Schools
Research that schools that do not give out homework to children, usually have a higher education standard then those with homework.
Studies show that homework causes stress in children, cuts into family time, and causes children to stay up late doing it.
It's a problem for busy families who usually are doing other things, because homework then piles up, and then the children become stressed, stay up late and don't do well at school. If they become to stressed, they can lash out at studants or teachers.
The other problem with homework is that it is more important then the work you do at school. If you don't do much work in school, you can still pass if you do the homwork. If you don't do the homework but do the school work really well, you can fail.
Can you see sense in that? I can't. Sign this petition to ban homework.
5. Time for a new world history teacher
Our world history teacher, Ms.Simanu Klutz is a nice person however not a great teacher. Ms. Simanu Klutz has taught us nothing so far in the year, and when I mean nothing, I mean nothing. She gives us many packets of the book to try and help us but we haven't even went over that chapter or section in class.
She gives us the packets and makes us do it on our own. She then gives us tests and quizzes over chapters and sections in the book that we all don't even remember discussing in class because we haven't. She tries different ways to teach us including: slideshows and group projects. Slideshows are a good way for us to make notes and learn but not when she doesn't even let us finish writing everything on the slide on our peice of paper and then doesn't even bother going back to let us write it down, but tells us that we should write faster.
How are we supposed to study for test if we don't have any notes in class. We have only seen three slideshows and not that much information on them. We are now on Chapter 14. She also sometimes lets us watch movies on what sections we are on but it is so boring that everyone ends up falling asleep. Also our class is the only freshman class that she teaches so we get treated like seventh graders. She doesn't do anything in our class to teach us about history. The information that she lectures to us is all coming out of the book.
We never have homework in her class and we never know when we have homework because the plansheet changes in class everyday. Its like social hour for us and we don't like it because we don't learn anything and when she gives us quizzes we bomb them.
6. Less Homework at St. Judes school
We need less homework.
How are kids expected to get so much homework done in one day with so little time?
7. No More Homework at Main Street
March 14, 2006
I believe that there should be no more homework at Main Street.
This would free up time to do other important things like play on a sport team, learn how to paly an instrument, etc.
8. Stay healthy and stop homework
People say to be healthy but because it gets dark early now we can't!!!
So stopping homework will help us get a healthy life !!!
9. Stop Child Abuse In School!
I'm on the internet talking to my friend Britt, and she tells me her 8yr old brother's teacher beat him for not wanting to do his homework! This is ridiculus!
WE NEED TO STOP IT! He is an innocent little kid just like me and my friends. I'm only 12 and this is really hard to battle. I talk back and don't do my homework and i don't get beat by a teacher!...PLEASE HELP!
10. Stop HOMEWORK i nAustralian schools!!!
As we get older, we receive more and more homework. Fair enough its helping our education but do we really want to be stuck at home doing homework on a great day?? NO!! We do plenty of work at school so i dont beleive we need to!!Not only students are unhappy but who has to mark the work in there own time?? The teachers!!
My name is nick horse, and i think the goverment should reduce the amount of homework because the youth of our day are recieving TOO MUCH HOMEWORK. It's not fair because when you come back from school, you don't exactly want to start doing hours of homrwork.
When you come back from school, you want to chill out!!
Come on you youth out there, i know you all agree.
Dear School Boards,
Parents and their children are getting way too much homework everyday. They can get hours and hours in one slab and not have the time to finish it. In school, when our teachers teach us about commitments, they say that they are good for us to learn and experience different things in life but my question is how are we supposed to do that if we can't go because of too much homework? We have lives too had I'm pretty sure that when you were a kid that you didn't like to get homework. Another thing. When children come to school with only half of their homework done and the teacher gets mad at them, the usual reason is because they had too much! You can't expect a grade 2 or 3 student to finish 2 hours of homework! It's wrong! So please, read each one of these signatures carefully because each of the people who had signed agree with me. Thanks and please take this to heart.
