Proposing solutions to student-athletes time management and teachers homework assignments

Student-athletes lives are misunderstood and look past of by teachers and the school system.  Their teenage psychological growth and development can be affected by their school work performance.  
Picture a student who plays any sport of your imagination, that student just got home from a two-hour practice.  After eating a snack and finishing feeding the pets and finishing the chores, that student now has to complete two to three classes worth of homework and assignments because if they don't, they will have to face the consequences of a letter grade that affects their ability to succeed after high school.  The solution to this student athlete's problem is not only something they have to fix, it's also a part of the teacher to have a solution to the problem for that student.  Teachers give homework and assignments to their students and ask for it back the next class or maybe ask for assignments back in an inadequate amount of time to complete and turn in.  
To help the student athletes and students overcome the homework barrier with teachers, I have created a homework and assignments system that should near solve the dilemma.  When teachers give their students homework or assignments, usually they will have them turn in homework and assignments on the teacher's date of choice.  However, if the student chooses out of two, three, or four options to turn the homework or assignments in, then that student-athlete is able to decide when doing the homework or assignment will work for them to do because of any student or student athlete’s different schedule.  This will hopefully lessen up the homework and assignments given to students.  The steps to making this become implemented in schools is simple and easy to conduct.  First, teachers must have two or more due date options given to students to turn in their homework and assignments.  If a student chooses one out of the given due dates to turn in their assignment, then there is no going back on their decision once told to the teacher.  If that student fails to turn in their assignments or homework on their chosen due date, then that teacher may give that student the same disciplinary actions as used now for not turning in homework or assignments.  The psychological impact on student-athletes this will have will be tremendous.  The time and decision to turn in assignments given to student-athletes and students will allow them to have less stress and depression on finishing school assignments.  The less stress and depression any student has will bring them to a greater state of mind which can benefit them in having better grades and school performance results.  To support this psychological statement, in the "Essentials of Educational Psychology" textbook, Jeanne Ellis Ormrod said "A great deal of anxiety usually interferes with effective performance.  When it has this counterproductive effect, it is known as debilitating anxiety.  Things that learners can do easily, can be affected poorly by high levels of anxiety, stress, and pressure."  (Essentials of Educational Psychology, 2006) 
Another system I have made, that I believe will help lesson up homework and assignments for student-athletes, is having all student athletes in at least one out of three season sports they participate in, will have an extra study hall in replace of their physical education class.  The student-athletes will participate in each physical tests needed for state testing each time the physical education class has it.  This study hall will not take place though, during health and Family Life Education classes during the student-athletes school year because of how important the health and Family Life Education classes can be for all students to participate and learn in. This extra study hall will give student athletes the opportunity to finish homework and assignments in school where they will have time before their extra activities and different life paces.  To create this change for student-athletes in schools is depending on whether or not the school board of the county or state will allow it.  If they do, then all that will change in the schedule for student-athletes is that they will not participate in their physical education class or Family Life Education class in replacement for a study hall that the student-athlete will be able to complete their homework and assignments.  The psychological impact this makes on student-athletes is highly important because of how having two study halls gives them the opportunity to finish their school homework and assignments in school where they don’t have athletics to participate in during the school day and they don’t have to go home and complete tasks or needsThis gives the students the resources like in any other study hall to complete their work also. 
The two homework and assignments completion system I believe will help not just student athletes, but also students reach a point where homework and assignments are not a burden to them but only once again another level of school work there to help them.  

Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis. Essentials of Educational Psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall, 2006. Print. 

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