Grade 9 · Opinion
Should Homework Have Limits?
Every school night, millions of teenagers sit down after dinner to face the same pile: a set of math problems, a history chapter, a lab report, a list of vocabulary words. For many of them, the pile is still there at eleven o'clock. Most of us accept homework as a fact of life, and we should; practice matters. The real question is not whether homework should exist but how much of it is too much.
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