There should be no homework for high school students

To assess my opponent's argument in R3, I will state the following.1. In R2, Pro states that "students spend 7 hours of the day at school, class durations varying from 45 minutes to an hour or more. Since we spend so much time during class, it seems stupid to make them go over the same thing at home." This shows that Pro's opening statement that "the problem is the amount of homework the students are assigned, not the homework itself" is contradictory of his position in this debate as it has progressed.2. As for "the average amount of homework for each class," the time it takes to do the homework is variable based on the student, the interest of the class to the student, the topic of the subject, etc. This goes undetermined, for every student cannot be accounted for in how long it takes them to do the homework. To do such would take an enormous amount of resources. 3. "If the school day ends at 4, the student gets home at about 5, (not mentioning the extracurricular sports and clubs that may take place after school, ranging from one to two hours of duration), dinner and daily activities such as showers, etc take two more hours. There is almost no free time. That's why students aren't getting enough sleep and can't be as active at school the next day." I am not aware of a school that ends at 4 and by extension a student that gets home one hour later; however, the point that must be made is the grammar of "if, then" statements. By stating "if" this occurred, "then" this would result. To state such is subjective and weakens an argument making it go unsupported. As for any "extracurricular sports and clubs.. dinner and daily activities," this is also based on each student. It is very broad to state that this goes for every student, for Pro does not state anywhere in this debate that this goes for a specific group of students, or for a specific grade, etc. The statement made on a students lack of sleep can be based on other lurking variables in this mix. There is no doubt that one of the many reasons of lack of sleep could be homework, but there could be other reasons for lack of sleep such as insomnia, playing video games, texting friends late at night, etc. 4. "A solution would be to decrease the homework, not to take it out completely."Given this "solution" that my opponent has provided contradicts the basis of this debate where the topic states "there should be no homework for high school students." While this point remains, I will further this point of the argument. The decreasing of homework has been highly regarded by many, especially in the past few years. [1] [2] [3]. This solution is continually being debated over as to "how much is too much." There are many reasons that teachers hand out homework; and sometimes it may seem a bit too much. Yet, there are reasons for this. Teachers don't want students to suffer from fatigue, nor do they want to see students stress out over anything. Why would a person want to become a teacher? To help students and to attempt to shape their lives by providing them with the proper education. [4] Granted that there are many teachers that students claim do not know how to teach and that the teacher does "this" and the teacher does "that," there will always be a motive for why teacher's do what they did. Thank you for the debate.[1] http://ed.stanford.edu...[2] http://www.endtherace.org...[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com...[4] http://www.edutopia.org...