Dear Editors,

I honestly doubt many students should be spending three hours on homework every night. Sure, maybe homework from start to finish takes three hours, but how much of that is actually homework? In my personal experience as well as admittedly anecdotal evidence, I’ve found that procrastinating and anxiety about work load generally increase the time it takes to do homework.

When I sit down to do my homework, I lay everything out, turn off my phone, and remove any distractions. There is very rarely a night where I am not done with my homework in about an hour and a half to two hours. Surely this number will vary among students, and admittedly I have teachers who are pretty good about homework, but homework that used to take me three hours is now taking half that.

Before we ask for less homework, we should examine how and why we work, looking inwards rather than externally to solve our problems. I rarely get home before 7 PM, spend a lot of quality time with my family, and spend at least 40 hours a week on various non-extracurricular hobbies. Doing my homework efficiently actually leaves me more time than not doing it at all.

Adam Keim ’19