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Ugh, I hate homework — I’m pretty sure all of us do, but some of the more hardcore people boast with a sly, deceptive face that they like homework. The kind of deceptive face that you get when someone has to say it to uphold their reputation, hardly ever revealing the hidden truths that lie within… because that’s how they are.
What a load of crap — literally.
Well, this is basically just another rant about how homework screws the lot of us (if not, all of us) over, because that’s just the nature of it. Homework can be defined as any task given by teachers as a “test” for students to demonstrate that they know their stuff, through physical evidence of work and labor. Oh man, as if the seven hours in school each weekday in a typical US school system was not already more than enough… here we have our lives outside of school being governed by homework. God.
I just got done with annotating The Metamorphosis from start to finish. Four hours down the drain devoted to scribbling meaninglessly on some text. Don’t get me wrong though, short stories are awesome; Jews are awesome; gigantic insects are awesome; and short stories about gigantic insects by Jews are awesome. The work isn’t.
Just now, I’ve managed to spend little of the leisure time I had left to pull that circle graph up there out of my ass to see how much of my time is being economically raped by school.
Yeah, I wish I had more time to do other things. I mean, I’m not making this rant because I am victim of homework overload (wait a sec, I am, that’s why I’m posting this); I’m not trying to make an excuse for not doing homework. In fact, homework isn’t a bad thing in theory, after all, it’s one of the only few “concrete proof” methods of demonstrating to your instructor that you know what you’ve been taught — only if it’s given in moderation. Too much and it’s overkill.
It’s not that we’re lazy and that we purposefully hate school — it’s just that we’d rather be doing other things than cram endless hours into seemingly meaningless homework… because that’s what homework is becoming to be these days: fillers, just simple fillers into your daily allocation of 24 hours, 7:30 of which you devote to school, and on average 9 of which you devote to sleep.
I think it’s time for a revolution of the world’s educational system. I do better in school when it’s not being a prick and invading my outside life, y’know?
Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels this way. 
PS: Oh, and to all of you academically-advocated bastards out there who defend homework, don’t post flaming me about my complaining about homework. Posts maturely defending homework are allowed, though — anything else will be treated as spam and will feel the wrath of the hax spam thingy.
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Posted August 14, 2008
I agree with your rant… but I lost all enthusiasm for school 2 years ago and usually rush homework a hour before it is due, quite often handing in half-finished pieces with great lies. Currently I am behind with two pieces of coursework due to complete lack of enthusiasm from the constant supply of homework I have received for the last 5 years. So… I am going to have to knuckle down over these next few weeks and do them (my computer tech. coursework is a 300+ page projects
) I need to get it done before I go to Barcelona, which is only 3 weeks away…
Well I think the education system needs some major reform in the first place. After seeing things like foreign news reports on how Americans are stupid and can’t do the basics, and things like that innocent Verizon Wireless customer who got charged 100 times more than what he was quoted on his bill because someone didn’t know the difference between .002cents and .002dollars, America really is stupid (with an exception to some very bright individuals who deserve a good name). Homework is a method to prove how responsible a student is, but that should be determined in class. Homework takes the fun out learning, I always liked learning but when you overload me with all this stuff, it’s not learning anymore, it’s just information crunching for 3 hours or more.
America you will pay… you will pay dearly for you lack of investment in education.
P.S. Yeah annotating sucks, reading and analyzing books to begin with is stupid. I hate reading because I can’t just enjoy the damn story, I have to pull out metaphors and thematic statements out of my ass just to pass the class (awesome rhyming). And that last statement is a prime example of how reading should be enjoyed, I said my unintentional rhyming was awesome, and I don’t have to say why, it just was.
Feel your pain Alan, and I could go on for days, but I think you, and everyone else who might read this gets the point by now.
Bird.
Touche.
Heh, I’m 12 years old and I hate school. Homework sucks. Why is it that the math teachers at my school have the worst grammar on the block? Word problems are hell because they don’t know what they’re talking about.
I wish my parents didn’t force me to do good in school. Maybe I’d actually have a life? I hate homework so much, I usually wait until about an hour before I go to sleep to start on it. If I don’t finish, my parents make me stay up until I do.
As I was saying above… Our teachers can’t type worth a crap or read for that matter. With an education of a retard, I don’t see how any of our math teachers go their teaching license. They force us to do something like 50 question word problem packets each night.
Language arts teachers are some-what less demanding in the homework department, but they assign crazy-large projects that should only take 2 hours. They don’t.
And the worst thing is we can’t complain or we go to In-school Suspension, >_>. It’s like a mini-communism camp!