by Nicholas Papadopolous
Homework causes student severe stress and causes them to live hectic day-to-day lives. In a poll taken about how much homework students have per night, I asked 15 student athletes and 2/3 of them said they have around two hours of homework each night.
With an average practice starting at 2:30 and ending at 5:30, student-athletes aren’t having enough free time to relax from their silly lives. After getting home at 6:00, students are eating, then doing homework, then showering, then going to bed, only to repeat the day tomorrow.
There aren’t many solutions coaches or teachers have about this problem. Many coaches urge their players to do some of their homework before practice, then yell at them when they lose track of time. Teachers often say “It should only take you half of an hour”, but when all six teachers say this, it adds up pretty fast.
I myself play High School hockey and baseball in the winter and spring respectively. Sometimes, I find that I forget to do some of my homework because I am too busy worrying about tomorrows game or today’s practice. Some of my teachers don’t understand the amount of pressure us student-athletes have to handle our lives.
On nights where the student-athlete has a project, an essay, a gorilla, and a book report due the next day, they can suffer academically and physically. Sometimes, I am forced to skip "South Park" just so I am not staying up until 1 a.m. finishing my homework.
Since there are no reasonable solutions to the problem at hand, the student athlete can do nothing but complain and try to survive.
Homework causes student severe stress and causes them to live hectic day-to-day lives. In a poll taken about how much homework students have per night, I asked 15 student athletes and 2/3 of them said they have around two hours of homework each night.
With an average practice starting at 2:30 and ending at 5:30, student-athletes aren’t having enough free time to relax from their silly lives. After getting home at 6:00, students are eating, then doing homework, then showering, then going to bed, only to repeat the day tomorrow.
There aren’t many solutions coaches or teachers have about this problem. Many coaches urge their players to do some of their homework before practice, then yell at them when they lose track of time. Teachers often say “It should only take you half of an hour”, but when all six teachers say this, it adds up pretty fast.
I myself play High School hockey and baseball in the winter and spring respectively. Sometimes, I find that I forget to do some of my homework because I am too busy worrying about tomorrows game or today’s practice. Some of my teachers don’t understand the amount of pressure us student-athletes have to handle our lives.
On nights where the student-athlete has a project, an essay, a gorilla, and a book report due the next day, they can suffer academically and physically. Sometimes, I am forced to skip "South Park" just so I am not staying up until 1 a.m. finishing my homework.
Since there are no reasonable solutions to the problem at hand, the student athlete can do nothing but complain and try to survive.
1 comment:
A gorilla?
There are things you can do. You outline the problem well enough, but the purpose of the newspaper is to make a positive change. Suggest one. Skipping "South Park" may not be such a bad idea. Check it out on YouTube later if it is so important, but over vacation or on the weekend.
A student athlete's life is paked, but it can be done. Some Division I athletes have said that the most productive semesters they have is when they are "in season". Their schedules are so overwhelming, they are forced to stay on task and get things done when they are due. In fact, they complain how they are such a mess when their season is over and they are not forced to follow schedules.
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