Grant the "No Assignments to be given on Friday" Policy

TGIF or Thank God, It's Friday surely is the favorite saying of students during the time of the week! Homework or assignments can have both positive and negative effects on children’s learning and attitudes towards school. On a typical school night, a high school student spends around two hours, at a minimum each night on homework. So it is exhausting to know that you have to squeeze time for these during weekends when you badly need rest after 5 days of school.

Being a student, calls for responsibilities in school that you are in. Accomplish the necessary papers that needs to be submitted. And in the most common of these are the assignments. Since you are a grader, you're already used in doing it because there are circumstances that your time for that specific subject is insufficient. So, you have no other choice but to continue these at home for the sake of completing it. But the question is, is it applicable during Fridays?

During weekdays students miss out on sleep, socializing, and crucial family time. If a person spends all their time doing homework Monday through Thursday, there should be a break on the weekend for time to catch up on things missed during the week.

During the week, children and family do not spend quality time together because of six hour school day, which is followed up by extracurricular activities and homework.  Parents too long forward to weekend, since they have jobs during the week that demands much of their own time.

Although some believe that homework creates bonding time between parents and students, since parents can aid in their child’s school work, many other parents believe that homework is stressful on kids, and when it comes to the weekend, that time should go towards strengthening the family connection, not doing homework.

Many students are involved in extracurricular activities, sports or even work hours on school nights. This causes students to get home from school late. Kids don’t usually start homework right away; they take care of other priorities first, pushing their homework further into the night.

Another important argument is that students have other obligations such as church, Sunday school, or sporting events that if they have homework on the weekends, it would prevent them from attending any of them.

Some say this is a lesson that has to be learned, and gives good practice for future events, since an adult may be called into work, or have to finish something for a job on the weekends even though he or she has off. Having homework on the weekends as a teen helps you learn responsibility of when to choose work over other plans in the real world. Although it would be good practice for a kid, now isn’t the time to learn because they should enjoy their childhood while they still have it.

In summation, teachers should be considerate to their students. Students are only human, they are capable of getting tired. So their body and brain needs to take enough rest to regain energy.