TELL YOUR TEACHERS INSTEAD OF DOING HOMEWORK YOU WERE DOING RESEARCH ON THIS TOPIC

Gregg Easterbrook in his TMQ column from espn.com discusses the
"homework conspiracy"

Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post reported that new studies by Duke University's Program on Education conclude, "Elementary school students receive no benefit from homework." The new book "The Homework Myth" by Alfie Kohn comes to the same conclusion, adding that in middle school more than 90 minutes of homework per night, and in high school more than two hours per night, backfire by reducing grades and test scores. The reasons are plain as the nose on your face -- too much homework leaves kids tired in the morning and makes them sick of education, while denying the time they need to goof off and be kids. Yet despite research showing large amounts of homework actively injurious to education, homework requirements have been rising steadily in public schools.

So tell your teachers that your grades and test scores will be better if they would quit giving you as much homework--even smart people that wrote books think so. See Sarah, at least one good thing has come out of Duke. So tell your teachers you will be doing less homeowrk so that you can do more fun stuff like youth group (but you didn't hear it from me).