Why do students have missing assignments?

Last semester 10 out of 24 kids had at least one missing assignment in my class. Thats about 42 percent of the kids in my class. Some may think that the main cause for missing assignments is laziness, but the main reason is they waste the time they have available for their work. Teenagers think they have more important things to do when really, they don't. Missing assignments is the biggest reason for bad grades. Some kids can be very bright and could do great in school. But because of missing assignments they don't do well.

Most people would say teens are lazy and don't do their work. People could argue that this is the biggest factor. They could also say it's sports. I can see why they would say that but it's a little more than that. Also, people think that they don't care about school. They also could have a bad memory and forget about it. People also say they just ignore the work. They are all good arguments but are not the reason.

The reason is because kids waste their time. I honestly miss assignments because I waste my time. I can see from my view why people do miss assignments. I do because of me wasting my time so I think that is why most other students do. They will waste their time on anything. Anything to not do their work. Teens can procrastinate and push it back, and farther back till it's too late to do it. Video games, television, computer and friends are all ways they waste their time. Teens can also be unorganized. You can easily waste time. The hard thing to do is to take time to do the work. The kids that do that are given good grades. They may also not give themselves enough time to do their work. The could be in sports which doesn't give them an excuse. But they may not organize their time after sports to do it.

Teens have missing assignments because they waste their time by playing video games, watching television and on the computer. Also, they are unorganized and don't use their free time wisely.