Students deserve the same rights as adults

• ⚖️ Workers in Australia have the legal “right to disconnect”, meaning they can refuse to do work or communicate with their employer outside of working hours (with no punishment). STUDENTS DESERVE THE SAME RIGHT.
• 🇫🇮📚 Finnish schools give a very minimal amount of homework, yet Finland consistently ranks in the top 10 countries for education. Why? Finnish teachers cover the work in school hours instead of dumping it on students at home. Finland also only has 4-6 hour school days.
  ✅ Less homework = Less stress = Better results.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Homework takes time away from friends & family . Childhood and teenage years are for living, not just laboring after school.
• 🧠💔 Homework creates unnecessary stress and deteriorates students’ mental health. Anxiety, burnout, and pressure should not be normalized for young people.
• 😴⏰ Homework reduces the precious sleep students get. Sleep & rest is especially important for adolescents. Sleep deprivation harms memory, concentration, immunity, and emotional regulation, directly hurting learning.
• 🚌🏚️ Homework contributes to inequality. Students living far away or students with less support struggle more. Students always have the option to do extra work, but it should never be compulsory.
• 🌐 "After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second shift, with more academic assignments to be completed at home."
  "My findings can be summarized in seven words: Homework is all pain and no gain."
  "doing homework has no statistical relationship to achievement in elementary school. In high school, some studies do find a correlation between homework and test scores, but it’s usually fairly small. In any case, it’s far from clear that the former causes the latter. And if you’re wondering, not a single study has ever supported the folk wisdom that homework teaches good work habits or develops positive character traits such as self-discipline, responsibility or independence."
  — The Case Against Homework, Alfie Kohn
• 🌐 "How long is your child’s workweek? Thirty hours? Forty? Would it surprise you to learn that some elementary school kids have workweeks comparable to adults’ schedules? For most children, mandatory homework assignments push their workweek far beyond the school day and deep into what any other laborers would consider overtime. Even without sports or music or other school-sponsored extracurriculars, the daily homework slog keeps many students on the clock as long as lawyers, teachers, medical residents, truck drivers and other overworked adults. Is it any wonder that, deprived of the labor protections that we provide adults, our kids are suffering an epidemic of disengagement, anxiety and depression?
  "Studies have long shown that there is no academic benefit to high school homework that consumes more than a modest number of hours each week."
  "Yet we continue to overwork our children, depriving them of the chance to cultivate health and learn deeply, burdening them with an imbalance of sedentary, academic tasks."
  — Why I Think All Schools Should Abolish Homework, Vicki Abeles
• 🌐 "Achievement, whether that be measured through standardized tests or general academic knowledge, isn’t correlated to assigning or completing homework."
  "Homework is an inequitable practice that harms certain individuals more than others, to the detriment of those with less resources"
  "It contributes to negative impacts at home with one’s family, peer relationships, and just general school-life balance, which causes far more problems than homework is meant to solve."
  "A study in Contemporary Educational Psychology of 28,051 high school seniors concluded that quality of instruction, motivation, and ability are all correlated to a student’s academic success. However, homework’s effectiveness was marginal or perhaps even counterproductive: leading to more academic problems than it hoped to solve."
  "A study in the Journal of Educational Psychology examined 2,342 student attitudes toward homework in foreign language classes. They found that time spent on homework had a significant negative impact on grades and standardized test scores. The researchers concluded that this may be because participants had to spend their time completing worksheets rather than spend time practicing skills on their own time.
  — This is why we should stop giving homework, Chris McNutt