captain acab Oct 25, 2024

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

Show threadLaura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸Oct 25, 2024

@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.

Show threadtired blipOct 26, 2024
@realtegan @redsad Yep. I graduated HS with like a 2.7 GPA despite getting 100% on basically every test in every subject. Principal was bewildered that the kid mostly known for C's and D's and sleeping through all of his non-science and non-band classes was somehow graduating a year yearly, until he poked at the grades breakdowns and was just like "oh, you just don't literally ever do homework, and you're willing to come 0.1% shy of failing a class to keep it that way... whatever, bye"
Show threadBunny Jane's Humansona
@klardotsh @realtegan @redsad I stopped doing homework and my teachers failed me. I had to do most of my 11th grade classes over again while also taking my 12th grade classes. It sucked.
Oct 26, 2024 at 8:56pmWeb
Show threadLaura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸Oct 26, 2024

@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.