[Inner Insanity]

Originally posted by Slim Shady

AP Lang?!
I'm taking that next year

Bless your poor soul.

[Britoncé]

BAN HA!

[TrashyNavy]

duhhhhh

[xAyana]

Hope teachers see this.

[Monk]

Let me sue!

[Nikolai.]

Originally posted by Inner Insanity

AP is seriously the worst thing ever.

I can't wait until May and pass the ****ing test (which I heard was easy)
But my teacher already told us that she will keep teaching till our last day

[Bee․]

Everything has settled down now homework wise with the exception of AP Practice exams. The beginning of my senior year was the PITS. I found myself staying up until 3 or 4 in the morning multiple times in my first semester. It's all about balance and trying not to procrastinate to get work done.

[Dancehall]

I'm sleep. Give them more homework and AP courses.

[Inner Insanity]

Originally posted by KingSebert

I can't wait until May and pass the ****ing test (which I heard was easy)
But my teacher already told us that she will keep teaching till our last day

We have to do timed writings every Friday leading up to that. I'm preparing for the worst.

[Adele Addict]

Originally posted by Bey_Rihstan

now Lbr, 7 classes of homework is to damn much!
Especially for those of us in honors classes.
I'm fine with doing the work, I just feel that they need to enforce some type of limitations to the amount of it.
(Ex, 2 Classes of homework on a Monday, 2 classes on Tuesday, 2 Classes on Wednesday, 1 class on Thursday, 0 on Friday, idk.)
Or atleast give us more than a day to do it, because we have lives outside of school to.

YES. Plus, I have to take two extra courses after school that I couldn't fit into my schedule this semester, so I have nine classes to take right now (and soon it will be ten). Teachers just don't understand, nor do they care in most cases. I don't mind a little. There's a point to it. But the excessive amounts of it that we get are just killing me. I've stayed up 'till 2:00 AM doing homework some nights, when I started at 3:15. It's ridiculous. These teachers have no consideration for their students. It's easier when the teacher is a parent, though, because their kid has also gone through this and they understand more. Regardless, honors students and kids involved in extracurricular activities really suffer from this, and it sucks.

[conseeded]

Originally posted by qurl

This tbh

Homework and essays actually need to play a bigger part in the academic lives of students whereas tests and other timed examinations need to have their significance reduced

Yup. There is no reason for (especially timed) tests to be such a big part in a student's grade/whether they pass or not.

[GlitterfiedCyrus]

Been saying this for years. Students have much too much stress put on them. Teachers also don't realize that kids need free time, they can't just constantly be working and after 6-8 hours of being a school, they can't just go home to do hours more work. Students are treated more like robots than people. It can seriously lead to mental illness' such as anxiety and depression and it really gets to the point where so many kids just give up and it's really sad.

[Bee․]

It's really ironic that students stay up late to complete homework to get good grades yet the lack of sleep deprives them from what they are trying to learn which usually results in lower grades.

[Adele Addict]

I'd also like to add that tests of any sort should not be as big of a part of one's grade as they are. All you do is memorize stuff and then forget it. Especially standardized tests because there is obviously too much information for a normal human being to know on it, but they still expect you to know it and if you don't, you're considered an idiot.

[Retro]

Take, for example, what a student in my 5 classes is expected to do in one night, every night (not the special occasions) (and keep in mind the norm at my school is 7 classes):

- Read one section of calculus, do 50 problems showing all work
- Read at least half of one chapter of Western Civilization, study for the weekly map quiz, study the 50 weekly vocab words
- Read and outline at least one textbook section in Advanced Biology; if you have a lab report ongoing, finish at least one section; study notes from daily lecture (the lecture is NOT based on the book!)
- Complete at least one page of your current English research paper, fully cited and bordered
- Translate a web article into Spanish, or do a worksheet, or study the verb tenses for review sheets and quizzes (there are a lot of verb tenses)

And then, on top of that as your teachers will remind you, get a GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP for that QUIZ we're doing tomorrow! None of the above may be done during class because class time is occupied with lecture and demonstrations which you are required to observe.

Like I'm only a damn high school senior, can we please let me have my rest and not be sleep deprived? I have a job, too, like, GURLS.

Originally posted by Tymps.

But never having any homework ever? You can't be babied forever. Many useful and practical skills, like time management and working independently, are learned from homework.

I'm definitely not arguing to support the whole or even the majority of how schools are taught in the present day. I agree with you on that. Tests in particular are pointless.

Sure we do need some, but my concern is the ridiculous amount currently constituted by the homework of most modern school systems. None is bad, yes. Excess is also bad. I agree on that.

[NaughtyDog]

Some of y'all are going to wish y'all had homework when your college class grade is just 50% midterms and the other 50% being the final

[Attitude]

I can't tell you how stressed out I was my Junior year of high school. I took 4 AP classes and it was hell. I mean the amount of work I get in college isn't as much as in high school.

[hooky]

The amount of homework should be reduced. I'd say 15-20 minutes max per class.

I'm pretty lucky to have a school where teachers give time in class to do homework, and some don't even much homework (dual-credit English, it's 90% in-class) or none at all (programming classes- more convenient to do everything at school). Plus I have study hall, but I usually end up sleeping in it because it's my 1st period.

Tests should definitely not be given as often, and should not count towards like 90% of the grade. Especially standardized tests; not everyone can learn/communicate knowledge the same. Whenever there's a test I usually just memorize and forget. I do remember bits of US history last year, and Econ.

[Tymps.]

Originally posted by Retro

Sure we do need some, but my concern is the ridiculous amount currently constituted by the homework of most modern school systems. None is bad, yes. Excess is also bad. I agree on that.

I never said we should have the current amount we do We're arguing from the same side here, dude.

[Bee․]

What REALLY gets me mad is when the homework is NOTHING like the quiz or test.