This petition has the power to shape America's future. Sign this petition to ban homework! Homework doesn't help, and can actually reduce concentration, intellegence, memory, and many other things. Besides, we're already forced to go to school. We should't be forced even more to do homework. But we don't have a choice and we have to do it, even though it doesn't help. Studies have shown that the brain creates more connections to other areas, boosting the amount of neurons and thus making the brain remember more (go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/mice-memory.html for more info), if, and only if the environment is stimulating enough, and there isn't a single electron about homework that's stimulating. Homework can hurt you mentally. Its better to do work at school than at home, because if you don't understand a problem at school, you can ask a teacher for help. But at home, if you need help, you won't always have it. That could lead into a child thinking he failed in some sort of way and harm him. The short-term effect isn't much, but let it build up, and ka-boom! It can really pay off in unexpected ways, like suicide. Homework can cause stress and lack of sleep, which can lead to disorders such as (but not limited to) heart diseases, chest pains, high blood pressure, lack of concentration, and ultimately, death. It also gets in the way of social interaction. Why learn about being social for homework if you were never social? And if you live a whole day on 260 minutes of sleep, how do you concentrate? The answer: you can't. If you don't have enough sleep, you loose concentration, making you work slower and less efficiently, so the next day, you'll have even less sleep and the day after that, even less until your body doesn't function normally anymore and you get really sick. Then there could just as well be medical tubes all around you're body, pumping insulin for an overworked person. IS THIS HOW AMERICA WILL BE?
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