Imagine sitting at your desk. It's 11:30 pm and the paper is peeling off your social studies poster. The numerous Spanish newspapers are scattered on the messy floor. The research paper on George Washington is only half done. Your parents scold you for getting up too late. Night after night, year after year, students are faced with an enormous amount of homework every evening. Parents and children hope that homework, after student activities, will help children achieve academically. However, students spend hours doing homework and fail academically. Homework can stress out a student or cause them to miss out on time and sleep with family. Daily homework assignments are a non-beneficial way for students to be educated and cause harmful effects on their lives; therefore, homework should be eliminated from a student's daily schedule. First, homework can have detrimental effects on a student's life. A student may feel stressed or overwhelmed by homework. Indeed, ethnographic research shows that too many assignments can play an important role in people dropping out (Buell). In particular, statistics show that approximately 21.8% of students will fail to graduate due to failure to complete homework or fail in class (Americas). Subsequently, students may become dissatisfied with school and lose motivation to do homework. In particular, some students believe that their intelligence plays an important role in motivation. If a student does not understand the assignment, he or she will likely not complete the work (Explore). Another example illustrates how homework is a major factor in childhood obesity. Students are basically forced to reside in their rooms and finish their work. Large...... center of paper...... in Children." Overweight in Children. American Heart Association Inc., November 7, 2013. Web. January 15, 2014. .Sifferlin, Alexandra. "Study or Sleep ? For better grades, teenagers should go to bed early | TIME.com." Time. Time, August 21, 2012. Web. November 13, 2013. Stevenson, Alexa. "Probing Question: Is Homework Harmful to Children?" Penn State News. Pennsylvania State University, August 31, 2009. Web. November 6, 2013. Suskind, Dorothy. “What Students Would Do If They Didn't Do Homework.” “Students Shouldn't Have Homework.”. 201