The Detroit News. The homework hassle Students and parents are buried in work Family life is disrupted in many homes as teachers pile on assignments. Julie says she has about four hours of homework every night, an amount many Metro Detroit students share.
Most kids relish staying home from school when they're sick.
The sixth-grader at Our Lady Queen of Apostles School receives so much homework that he quit basketball, stopped bowling and hits the books about four hours each night, according to his mother, Patti. He gets no exercise, he has no time. Many parents voice similar complaints as they hunker over home computers and library copy machines, helping children as young as 6 collect maps and write reports. Research backs them up. That sounds low to many Metro Detroit parents, who say their children may spend nearly that much time on homework every day.