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Mom says “Do your homework”, dad says, “Do your homework”, and just like that a peaceful household explodes into a warzone. It causes emotional stress which deprives them of sleep. Homework also impacts a student’s emotions. When students stay up late to finish their homework, they do not sleep enough hours thus negatively affecting their health. This 3.5 hours of homework combined with extracurricular activities and dinner can cause students to stay up to eleven or later at night thus sleep depriving students who need between “9 and 9 ½ hour of sleep” (Sleep In Adolescents). “On average, high school students are assigned 3.5 hours of homework per weeknight, or more than 17 hours a week” (Klein). They have math and English and science and social studies. Not only does homework cause anxiety, it physically forces students to stay up later in order to finish their homework. “Stress or anxiety can cause a serious night without sleep, as do a variety of other problems” (Sleep Disorders). They worry about whether or not they did a good enough job on their homework and think about the next night’s homework. At night, students’ minds are on homework, and homework is on their minds. Surveyed students’ “results showed that homework does cause stress and anxiety” (Refvik). Psychologically, homework creates anxiety, and anxiety makes it harder to sleep. Students sleep less due to excessive amounts of homework because homework affects them psychologically, physically, and emotionally. Teachers need to reduce homework by 50% because students need more time to sleep. Too much homework can have a negative effect on students because it causes stress and limits their sleep. When students have too much homework, they “do it just to get it done” and do not absorb the information and do not learn anything, rendering homework useless. Almost everyday, students show up to school stressed and sleep deprived. The seemingly endless cycle that high school students endure five days a week from September to June. Wake up, go to school, do homework, go to sleep.