Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Too Much Work
Towards the end of the school year, teachers seem to pile on work for no apparent reason. Especially in the case of the juniors, this extra work causes a lot of unnecessary stress. Juniors need to focus on SAT's, ACT's, finals, and AP exams, all while teachers are throwing work at them that isn't needed. Most of this work is added because teachers need to put in grades to have something to show for a semester in their class, but giving a majority of the work in the end of the year isn't good because it is a time where students have the most pressure to perform. A smart alternative to giving a lot of work in the end of the year would be to distribute the workload as evenly possible over the semester, or to modify the end of the year work to make it less taxing on already stressed students. However teachers decide to fix this problem, they should do it quickly because they are hurting students.
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I have noticed this a lot in my experience in Midwood so far and its very annoying. Juniors should be mainly free in the last month before the SAT so they can better prepare for it but instead they are piled with tons of work from several of their classes and its not fair.
ReplyDeleteIn Norway, students, primarily the young, have a shorter school day than most students across the world with 3-4 hours per school day. Scandinavian teachers also assign little to no homework and allow students to relax and learn more of the environment around them. This method of teaching reduces stress and allows for greater accommodation of knowledge, ranking Scandinavian in the top 20 in education throughout the world.
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