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Do you struggle with the balance of Homework and afterschool activities?
Startling results from a recent study and school poll show that Carmel students are in fact feeling stressed and feel that some homework is not effective for their learning. Much of the Homework allocated to Carmel students is simply "busy work;" work that is set purely to take up time, rather to re-inforce the days learning. The aim of this website is to rally suport for this issue and either, reduce the amount of homework, or to increase the educational quality of the work.

At Carmel College students are expected to complete about 30 minutes of homework every night for years 9, 10 and 11. This adds up to a total of 3 hours of homework every night, not including subjects that a lot more time consuming, like Art and Materials. It is difficult for students doing afterschool activities to fit this work into their busy schedules and they find that they are penalised and behind in their work the next day.

Carmel College offers a wide variety of afterschool activities for its students to participate in. Carmel Students represent their school in sport, music groups and competitions. It seems unfair that they have to stay up to midnight after representing Carmel all afternoon to finish the 3 hours of homework that had been set to them in class. Students should be able to have dinner, maybe watch one episode of their favourite programme without being under the constant pressure of finishing everything on time.