text: When you are smothered with homework, you usually stay up at night, sluggishly going through the homework so you can finally go to sleep, in FCPS, at the beginning of the year, the teachers reported that homework usually takes 2 to 4 hours. The students go home at 2:22, but they usually get home by 2:50, or 3 during unlucky circumstances. What if we added about 2 hours to that? they get home by 4 in the afternoon, they now have to do their homework. That may take them about 3 and a half hours and by now, its 7:30, the plans they had, down the drain, now they have eat dinner and go to bed because they have to wake up at 5 or 6 in the morning to catch a bus that comes at 6:30. Their weekdays just practically consist of school and homework. they will get not free time until the weekend, and that isn't guaranteed because some teachers will assign homework during the weekends! According to a study, when students have no free time and their time just consists of homework, that will lead up to more stress, and stress leads up to anxiety, and anxiety leads up to depression.