High schools should lessen the amount of homework they give students. Many students have jobs and have to work over 4 hours after school each day. Many students are athletes who have to practice and compete after school. There are students whom have jobs and are also athletes. When you have students who devote their time to after school activities and jobs, the amount of time they have for homework drastically reduces. Many are "A" students whose grades have been lowered because they don't have time to do two hours of homework each night and more than that each weekend



