Homework

[The Dark One]

What was the prequel to The Odyssey? Because I read The Odyssey either 8th or 9th grade' date=' and I don't ever remember there being a [i']pre[/i]quel.

 

The Trojan War.

[Dark]

What was the prequel to The Odyssey? Because I read The Odyssey either 8th or 9th grade' date=' and I don't ever remember there being a [i']pre[/i]quel.

 

The Trojan War.

 

*faceplam*

 

God, now I remember. Amazing what bad memory I have. :/

[Flinsbon]

Yeah my dad said he liked the Iliad better than the Odyssey, which figures because I only read the Odyssey in school (or, rather, the short, short version).

[Cin]

1) They only give homework relevant to the work, and they don't give very much, during a lot of holiday time.

2) Get used to things being over summer. All those days and all that small amount of homework in comparison, do it at the beginning.

 

Homework, is work at home simple. How are you gonna cope at a uni?

[DARKPLANT RISING]

Ah but I didn't say it was a research paper (and it's not). Our teacher told us specifically not to do any research.

 

Even if it wasn't, it would work on the brain.

 

About reading books, my place told me to read a book called "Ryoma Ga Yuku", meaning "Ryoma Goes". Ryoma is the name of a Japanese Bushi of the final parts of the Edo Period, and therefore the last generation of Bushi ever. He was skilled at many things, and helped the Meiji Government, the current Jap. one, be created.

Really fun to read.

[rustyowl]

Back in seventh and eighth grade, my math teacher used to assign homework and classwork. Homework would be on what she taught us for about five minutes at the beginning of class, and classwork is something random that has nothing to do with our homework but we usually haven't learned yet. Homework must be done at home (or in class if you finished all your classwork), while classwork CANNOT be taken home, otherwise it is a zero, and must be completed in class. However, classwork does not have to be finished the day it was assigned, so if you haven't finished it, you put it in the unfinished folder. (Once finished, it goes into the finished folder). So what usually happens is that each day we get more and more classwork to the point where it keeps building up. When she finally decides to collect a bunch of classwork a month later, you have three assignments to do overnight, because your forced to take it home otherwise you'll get zeros on all of them.

 

Classwork counts as a grade, while homework is checked at the beginning of class the next day, turned into the teacher to make sure we did it, and then thrown into the trash. It is worth nothing.

 

/rant.

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

Back in seventh and eighth grade' date=' my math teacher used to assign homework and classwork. Homework would be on what she taught us for about five minutes at the beginning of class, and classwork is something random that has nothing to do with our homework but we usually haven't learned yet. Homework must be done at home (or in class if you finished all your classwork), while classwork CANNOT be taken home, otherwise it is a zero, and must be completed in class. However, classwork does not have to be finished the day it was assigned, so if you haven't finished it, you put it in the unfinished folder. (Once finished, it goes into the finished folder). So what usually happens is that each day we get more and more classwork to the point where it keeps building up. When she finally decides to collect a bunch of classwork a month later, you have three assignments to do overnight, because your forced to take it home otherwise you'll get zeros on all of them.

 

Classwork counts as a grade, while homework is checked at the beginning of class the next day, turned into the teacher to make sure we did it, and then thrown into the trash. It is worth nothing.

 

/rant.

[/quote']Now, see, if I had a class like that, that would be, liek, awesoem. Assuming I liked the course material and the class was advanced enough.

[Dark]

I'm deathly confused. Are you not allowed to take the classwork home, or only when your teacher knows you'll all fail?

 

Middle-schoolers. Ha, what a joke! How I'd die to be an eight-grader again; my homework rarely lasted more than thirty minutes. <_____<

[Night]

In my opinion homework is a waste of time. School is where you should be working, home is where you should be having a life.

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

In my opinion homework is a waste of time. School is where you should be working' date=' home is where you should be having a life.

[/quote']See, the thing is, you're assuming the point of school is to make you work. The point of school is to make you learn, and forty-five-minutes-to-an-hour per class isn't nearly enough time to make you learn. Hell, most of the time, it's not enough time to cover the material.

I'm deathly confused. Are you not allowed to take the classwork home' date=' or only when your teacher knows you'll all fail?

 

Middle-schoolers. Ha, what a joke! How I'd die to be an eight-grader again; my homework rarely lasted more than thirty minutes. <_____<

[/quote']It doesn't in high school, either. >.>

[Dark]

In high school it's considerably longer than thirty minutes. Considering that you often need to constantly study.

 

Oh, and advanced courses means a shitload of homework that covers the same material over and over.

 

Granted most of it is easy, but because it is assigned in such large quantaties, it is obviously going to take a long time.

[DARKPLANT RISING]

How I'd die to be an eight-grader again; my homework rarely lasted more than thirty minutes. <_____<

 

You Publics... I envy you.

[Great Unclean One: VK]

How I'd die to be an eight-grader again; my homework rarely lasted more than thirty minutes. <_____<

 

You Publics... I envy you.

 

Wait' date=' is Private school the one where you have to wear uniforms and go to school.

 

Or is it the one where you live at it?

 

Also, Kenta.

 

How you must envy me.

 

And how you must envy the will to learn at a Viet level.

 

Seriously, I'll help out.

 

Here's a chart.

 

[img']http://images.cheezburger.com/imagestore/2010/4/27/8022d3fd-f2d6-4ab1-92de-9807ec8bf6ee.png[/img]

 

I'll leave you to guess which one is Japan and which one is Vietnam....

 

Also, I hate Homework that is too long.

 

Give me something straight to the point, something that involves no creativity, and something that is short and I'll get it perfect.

[DARKPLANT RISING]

How I'd die to be an eight-grader again; my homework rarely lasted more than thirty minutes. <_____<

 

You Publics... I envy you.

 

Wait' date=' is Private school the one where you have to wear uniforms and go to school.

[i']Well, yes.[/i]

 

Or is it the one where you live at it?

No. 40 minutes on train is a pretty descent distance.

 

Also, Kenta.

How you must envy me.

And how you must envy the will to learn at a Viet level.

Seriously, I'll help out.

Here's a chart.

 

I'll leave you to guess which one is Japan and which one is Vietnam....

Some people bring YGO cards to school, but otherwise...envy...

 

Also, I hate Homework that is too long.

Me too.

 

I quoted it whole because it seemed impossible to track this post down if I wrote it afterwards in a big pile.

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

In high school it's considerably longer than thirty minutes. Considering that you often need to constantly study.

 

Oh' date=' and advanced courses means a shitload of homework that covers the same material over and over.

 

Granted most of it is easy, but because it is assigned in such large quantaties, it is obviously going to take a long time.

[/quote']Wait, your advanced courses give repetitive, boring homework? See, at my schools, advanced courses means small amounts of challenging homework that usually bridges the previous and next lessons.

 

I pity... everyone in this thread.

[Dark]

See, at my schools, advanced courses means small amounts of challenging homework that usually bridges the previous and next lessons.

 

See, I go to a place called a "public school".

 

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh...

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

See' date=' at my schools, advanced courses means small amounts of challenging homework that usually bridges the previous and next lessons.[/i']

 

See, I go to a place called a "public school".

 

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh...

So do I. >.>

 

Although mine is awesome, even compared to other schools in the district.

[seattleite]

Homework has it's place as preparing work ethic. I hate to admit this, but homework has taught me how to manage my time. Besides, when you get a job later in your life you'll most likely have "homework" as well.

 

But, on the other hand, childhood is a precious time, and 2-3 hours of homework, especially when being a teenager is probably the worst time for teachers to load on homework. We have so much other stuff going on. In extreme cases it replaces happy childhood memories. If we really are falling behind as a country in education we should improve in schoolwork, not homework.

[King of Yesonia]

I don't know if teachers should regulate how much homework they give you. Some teachers may be cool and not give you any homework, of course, theres that one teacher that gives you a pile of homework to do.

[Darkest Hour]

It just matters if you are the lowest common denominator of the country. If you can't handle doing extra work for your education then it really shouldn't be free, now should it? Just do it, regardless of how much free time you are losing.

[Jaime Duferier]

i think it should be made OPTIONAL (no, really), because you can either turn down the useless and time wasting homeworks, and do the ones that actually matter, get exceptional grades, go to harvard, become the president of the USA...