Mikayla

                  THIS CHANGE…   April 15, 2009 Dear Editor, Doyle’s older students are having the hard way with homework most may say. Though, others such as some teachers or principals may not agree that there is a dark side of homework. Please, help us enjoy school more by giving us less of this! In my perspective, there should be a pretty large decrease in our homework size, except for the reasonable reading and study time. Think for a second. With the length of our homework time, others and I start our homework a little after we come home. After that boring length of time, we usually end up finishing at about 8:00 or 7:00, including dinner and short activities like running errands. Since it is dark at this time of day, this gives me and surely other students no time to play outside, when doctors recommend a minimum of an hour of play each day. Also, from my experiences, students end up having less time for studying for tests because of having too much homework. Later, the wonderful A’s are becoming B’s or C’s. The last problem with all that work is that it’s killing our precious, precious trees! So, do you think all of these sentences in this paragraph are good things? This could be prevented in three good solutions. The answer to this problem is to allow us to do the homework pages that really HAVE to be completed, during that classes’ extra time, for morning work, or during a long dismissal. If not all of the short amount of homework isn’t finished, which would happen rarely, you can just give that short work left to us for regular homework. As you can see, if this school has less homework, many students and others can have happier school years. Only you can make this difference. Sincerely, Mikayla Darrows