Little Kids Get Assigned Way Too Much Homework

Something to keep in mind for back to school in a couple of weeks. A new study published in The American Journal of Family Therapy shows that elementary school students are being assigned three times as much homework as has been deemed appropriate by educational experts.

First-graders were found to be spending 28 minutes per night on their homework, far surpassing the “10 minutes per grade level per night“ standard.

Meanwhile, parents of kindergarteners reported that their kids spent 25 minutes per night on their studies.

“It is absolutely shocking to me to find out that kindergarten students (who) are not supposed to have any homework at all are getting as much homework as a third-grader is supposed to get,“ the study’s editor said.

This is the big part here, because I have kids and I can relate.

"Anybody who's tried to keep a 5-year-old at a table doing homework for 25 minutes after school knows what that's like. I mean children don't want to be doing, they want to be out playing, they want to be interacting and that's what they should be doing. That's what's really important."

Kids that are bored is one thing. Kids being forced to do something they don't want to do, for too long, is white hot death for a relatively sane adult to have to deal with.