Homework

I am a 10th grade student at Albert Lea High School. Like most kids who attend I enjoy the part of school where I'm able to see my friends, and dislike the homework and stress that comes along with it!
Here at ALHS we have a 7 period day, each period consisting of approximately 50 minutes. Today I had homework in every single one of my 7 classes except for choir. We are only in the second week of school! I don't even want to think about whats to come. Although not all the homework assignments were long, when you get 6 classes of it, it all adds up. For someone like me who is involved in extracirricular activitys it is quite difficult to get all of the homework done on time and to the best ability. I barely had time to eat supper! Am i saying we should ban homework all together? No not at all! I think some homework is good. But if it continues like this everyday I do not see how I will get decent grades in all 7 of my classes. You could argue well the kids need to learn how to do work on there own, and I agree with that fully its just the amount that we get im disagreeing with. One teacher that I have does not assign any homework on fridays. That is very nice for the students. Most of us are tired from the week and cannot wait for the weekend. And sometimes are weekend plans are demolished because of homework. I believe that you can affectivly teach a course with out assigning loads of homework week in and week out. If I get 10 hours of homework per week the whole year (which is two hours per day) I think i might go insane. But if theres some weeks i get a lot and some weeks teachers decide to ease up a bit ill be totally fine! Again its not so much homework in general that makes me mad its the amount of it.