STOP DOING HOMEWORK
CHILDREN WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPEND TWELVE HOURS A DAY DOING SCHOOLWORK
YEARS OF BUSY WORK yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for replacing free time with MORE SCHOOL
Wanted to learn during your free time anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "THE LIBRARY"
"The assignment is due tomorrow. It is worth 50 percent of your grade." - Statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged
"Sorry can't go out tonight, I have homework"
They have played us for absolute fools
@redsad
Ha. I figured that out in middle school, and stopped doing homework.
I never failed a class, but I made a lot of teachers VERY angry at me. My response was simple: if I knew the material, doing a bunch of busy work was pointless. And they could NEVER prove I didn't know it, because I did.
I'm an advocate of doing enough work to be certain you understand the concept, and then stopping.
If I had kids, their teachers would hate me.
@klardotsh @realtegan @redsad 2.5 GPA, but 2.9 with all the bonus points for Honors and AP classes
Same energy, though
My chemistry teacher admitted I was only the second student she ever had that could pass her class without homework (50% of the grade, but the tests were heavily curved).
@soatok @klardotsh @realtegan @redsad My school's admin was surprised that I got the [high score on state tests] scholarship despite my grades being a C average, simply because they couldn't imagine someone that barely did the homework but had such a rock solid grasp of the material to absolutely nail the tests.
I continued this into college, too: I almost never did the homework in my chemistry class, and yet absolutely nailed the midterm and finals with high 90s. About 20 minutes faster than any other student in the room, too... (although TBF I was hopped up on enough caffeine and prescription stimulants for time to become meaningless...)
My college calc class had a "if you solve some short problems at the beginning of each class, there's no homework for you" policy, and so I got one point shy of perfect in that one...
@bunny_jane @klardotsh @redsad
Doesn't work for everyone, sadly. I ended up in conferences with most of my teachers over homework issues. I told them what I thought of homework, and most of them were reasonable, if utterly exasperated. I recognize that I was lucky.
The one time I couldn't understand something, I spent every day for a week after school with the teacher to figure it out. Word kind of spread. I would put in the work if I had to.
But mostly I didn't have to.
@realtegan @redsad I had a fantastic math teacher who never checked homework. Her policy was that homework is for our benefit - do it because you'll need the practice for the test, or don't, you decide.
I almost never did any because it just didn't work for me (I had other ways of practicing), and as a result massively enjoyed that class more and did better at it than if I did do homework!
She also had the fantastic cheating policy of "if I don't catch you you've earned it", and had a bit of an anarchist spirit, sometimes telling us crazy stories of demonstrations she participated in... What an amazing woman.
I found doing homework problems enormously useful… when I was studying calculus.
There were a couple of other times I probably should have done it, for instance when studying languages, where repetition really does make a huge difference.
But overall, I literally had a teacher once send home a note saying "He is very bright and a joy to have in class, but I cannot recall that he has ever handed in a homework assignment."
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