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News: Homework is harmful for your health
Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by 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.
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Accelerated Spanish 3, AP Language, General Chemistry, and Precalculus. This year has been awful. Two more months though until it's over and I can look forward to a better senior year.
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Member Since: 7/21/2010
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Originally posted by 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.
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University level classes are usually accompanied with extracurricular activities, work, and daily activities all on your own. High school is easy. The girls here aren't ready.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Nah it's good it reinforces what you have learnt .
This coming from a guy who started uni this year and hasn't done much HW in his life.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by adanmonster
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University level classes are usually accompanied with extracurricular activities, work, and daily activities all on your own. High school is easy. The girls here aren't ready.
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This I'm so not use to it at uni.
So much procrastinating combined with tonnes of HW , some days I end up doing nothing.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by BEE.HD
What REALLY gets me mad is when the homework is NOTHING like the quiz or test.
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This!!!!!
Especially my music class in college(which I drop 9 day ago). We got like 20 pages of homework a week but our test was 2 pages long and some of it was old stuff and the new stuff that we were learning in class and doing homework on was hardly on it.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Glad I'm graduating this year. College better hold onto its weave.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by -brian
Not here for homework being banned when I already graduated
If I had to do it so do you
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Come to College/Uni
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Member Since: 9/12/2012
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I had an idea myself for how homework should go..
Basically, the first couple weeks of school would go by, and the teachers wouldn't give homework to any of the students. After this few week period is over, teachers would evaluate how students performed on in-class assignments, quizes/tests, etc., and those who have lower grades (aka not "getting it") would be those who are assigned homework, and it would be an "extra credit" type of deal, and not a mandatory, "do it or you'll fail" thing. If the student chooses not to do it, they clearly wouldn't care enough about their grades and probably wouldn't do it if it was required of them anyway.
With a system like this, it would make those who just "get it" easier not have to deal with homework (or they could if they wanted the extra percentage to look good on their college apps). In my opinion, it would be the most beneficial thing to do for every type of student.
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Now, if it was just "ban it" or "keep homework as is", I'd say ban it...it adds a lot of unneeded stress at the current rate.
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i used to get HEAD ACHES doing homework
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by adanmonster
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University level classes are usually accompanied with extracurricular activities, work, and daily activities all on your own. High school is easy. The girls here aren't ready.
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Not really sure what you're arguing here. Is it that AP-level courses are too demanding, or not demanding enough? Or are you agreeing and then contradicting yourself?
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Member Since: 6/6/2012
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I always had so much homework, so I;m not here for any getting rid of homework. If I had to do it, I want everyone else to suffer with it too. Plus it's so much worse now in University -.-
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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I'd rather have them lessen the amount of homework instead of banning it altogether.
Too much of anything is bad for you after all.
But if you took AP and Honors classes and still complain about the heaps and heaps of homework that you get.. its your fault.
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Member Since: 9/12/2012
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Originally posted by hooky
Not really sure what you're arguing here. Is it that AP-level courses are too demanding, or not demanding enough? Or are you agreeing and then contradicting yourself?
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I was actually confused myself by what he meant. I'm assuming he thought that they said college is way harder than high school...but
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Member Since: 6/6/2012
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Originally posted by Attitude
I mean the amount of work I get in college isn't as much as in high school.
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Omg how!? I have weeks in University where I have multiple essays due every day. High school was never that severe. Looking back it feels like nothing.
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The whole educational system needs to be re-thought to teach you things you actually need in life
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Member Since: 7/21/2010
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Originally posted by hooky
Not really sure what you're arguing here. Is it that AP-level courses are too demanding, or not demanding enough? Or are you agreeing and then contradicting yourself?
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AP classes are demanding and designed to prepare you for university level work. While it seems at the time that there is a lot of work, it helps you out in the future. The workload in AP classes are comparable to university classes, and when you have multiple classes, it teaches you to balance academic and social life effectively.
The workload then becomes "normal" and makes high school level quantities of homework seem too easy. If you just ban homework or have almost no homework like people are suggesting, then you won't be set for the future, unless you're financially set to live in a beach house with everything catered to you every day. Sure it can be too excessive at times, but it sets you up for the future.
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Member Since: 7/21/2010
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Originally posted by Hugamari
I was actually confused myself by what he meant. I'm assuming he thought that they said college is way harder than high school...but
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I did, but I was also making the point that any amount of work is followed with the "college lifestyle", which makes things harder
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Member Since: 9/12/2012
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Originally posted by Blatboy
The whole educational system needs to be re-thought to teach you things you actually need in life
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I agree with this sentiment.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by XLR8
...what????? I would've EASILY traded with you. Pre calc & Spanish 3? General Chem??? You have the good life. I could easily swing past that.
Anyway, homework is harmful? lol Well, I wouldn't know 'cause I hardly did any hw my entire HS career. I'm an awesome test taker so my grades would always compensate for the incomplete assignments. However, 3/4 weeks before mid terms I'd ALWAYS do the HW so I could earn an A for the class xD
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Not with AP Language on top of all those. My teacher is the PITS. I have a compare/contrast essay on the movie and book of The Great Gatsby due Tuesday, 10 editorials due by the end of the semester, a book talk and project due by Friday, and reading/response journals on all the books I've read this quarter due in 2 weeks. Plus the work from the other classes.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by adanmonster
AP classes are demanding and designed to prepare you for university level work. While it seems at the time that there is a lot of work, it helps you out in the future. The workload in AP classes are comparable to university classes, and when you have multiple classes, it teaches you to balance academic and social life effectively.
The workload then becomes "normal" and makes high school level quantities of homework seem too easy. If you just ban homework or have almost no homework like people are suggesting, then you won't be set for the future, unless you're financially set to live in a beach house with everything catered to you every day. Sure it can be too excessive at times, but it sets you up for the future.
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Ah, ok. Makes more sense.
There's also a lot of emphasis on extracurricular activities. To get scholarships you're likely going to need at least some of those. Maybe that's the real problem?
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