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In a recent article, "Over scheduled Children: How Big a Problem?" written by Bruce Feiler, much is discussed as to whether children are too busy in this day and age.

An example from the article, "“As a general principle, there is a line between a highly enriched, interesting, growth-promoting childhood and an over scheduled childhood,” This makes me believe that some parents and teachers "try to hard" or push too much on young students to become better; however, this adds stress to their already busy life. Therefore not helping, but hurting their chances at success.

Another example, "The real problem, he said, lies with parents, especially highly successful ones who have a high degree of control over their own lives and who try to take similar control over their children’s lives. " Busy parents trying to give their children "something to do" really just make them have more and more on their plate. Making school work, the more important of the two, lower on the totem pole as to after school events.

Bruce states, "the basic idea is that it’s great to have a computer, it’s great to have software, but if you overload a computer with software it breaks down." Giving the basic idea that a child is fine under a normal load, yet too much will break them down. Giving children too much to do takes them from a normal life or even the homework already assigned.

Personally i do not think i was "over loaded" as a child. Yet more and more cases are upcoming of parents over bearing their children with sports, music lessons, or anything you could think of. To me this is wrong. If it is the child's idea fine, but activities should not be used as a day care.

In conclusion, parents, teachers, even coaches are over scheduling students. With practices after practice then a ton of homework to be done there is hardly time to take a breather.

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Lauren Miller, author of "High School Homework: Are American Students Overworked?" a teen writer, talks about how high school teachers assign entirely too much homework, which benefits no one.

From Miller's article, "The average student is glued to his or her desk for almost seven hours a day. Add two to four hours of homework each night, and they are working a 45 to 55 hour week!" While Miller says students should receive no more then ten minutes of homework per grade level. This leaves students over working themselves daily in order to come close to a good grade.

Yet another statement from Miller, "Too much homework is sapping students' strength, curiosity, and most importantly, their love of learning." Teachers seem to think that assigning more homework is beneficial; however, it takes the fun out of learning. School, supposed to be a fun place of learning, has burdened students with hours of homework and made them hate school itself.

Miller states, "Teachers who assign large amounts of homework are often unable to do more than spot-check answers." Therefore the majority of hard work students put into homework are merely skimmed over, while each student spends much of their time doing it. If the teacher only plans to skim over it, what is the point in assigning it?

Personally, fifteen to forty five minutes of homework does not seem like that much. Yet when you are assigned that amount from each and every class the problem turns into a mountain of unfinished work. For example, try studying for a math test, while also typing a current connection, then completing your speech for oral communications in one night. This just seems to overload my mind.

In conclusion, teachers should not only think about the amount of homework they assign yet the total amount assigned before they ask for a four page paper.