Homework. *cries*

In class we read a book called 'The Scarlet Ibis'. The teacher assigned us to do a five page study guide...yes...five. freaking. pages....with about three totally 'fun' activities on every page...due...freaking...tomorrow.

I literally just looked at my homework...I'm on the second page...and I just started sobbing.

So it might not seem like much to you, but for your information, I've already completed four pages of math homework, a page of science definitions, an online assignment, choir practice, and I haven't even eaten dinner yet. It's nearly nine o' clock at night, I HAVE to go to sleep by ten or I'll be a zombie in the morning. I'm not even gonna look at my Spanish homework.

Yeah.

Something tells me I'm not gonna be able to play video games TONIGHT either. -.-

Seriously though...on some of these stupid assignments, I just want to write "&#$% it, just give me an F. Know what? Expel me. Please. I'm begging you."
I mean when you've got so much to do, grades don't matter. Ugh...so much to do...

SO, naturally I came on here! :3

Heheh...oh joy. So, I thought I was finished with all my craploads of homework for the weekend...turns out...THERE'S A COMPUTER ASSIGNMENT. *gasp* ooh it's on the Great Depression, oh joy. One of the most totally non-boring, not-talked-about-way-too-much-topics of all time. Please, I'm missing out going to grandma's house for this. She's probably gonna go eat somewhere nice and get frozen yogurt with my brothers, and I'm the old fart that's left out to dry. But hey, I'm learning about something I learned about five years ago. Ain't that special??

Homework is literally the most useless piece of crap ever.

We spend 8 hours every day in school. There's no need to give us 2 or 3 more hours of work to do at home, during our free time.

"It's for enrichment!" Just shut up, you can enrich us during school. 90 minutes per class, you can give us more than enough work to "enrich" our minds.
My favorite thing? When teachers complain, "Why didn't you do your homework?!?" Well, gee, I don't know! It's certainly not because I had a 3 hour dance practice, followed by an hour drive home, went out to eat, and did other homework before going to bed at 11 PM the latest. Certainly not!

I, personally, have just stopped even trying with my homework. "Oh? I have some math problems?" (some=2 pages) "Hm, let me just write some random crap down..." We check our homework in class, so I literally just erase the answers and right down the correct ones.

If I ever become a teacher, and I would like to, I definitely won't be giving out homework. Kids need freetime, no matter how old you are. Sports, friends, family, etc, should come before homework, in my opinion. 8 hours at school. Only about 6 hours at home until I have to go to sleep. It can wait -.-

I laugh hard when someone says, "It's so you can understand what you learned better". Um, no. I literally learn nothing from homework. It's the teacher's job to teach us during class. When the bell rings, they can't control what we do. We should have that time to ourselves, not dedicating it to their bullcrap assignments.

One teacher of mine doesn't give homework. He also believes that it's useless. The others?  ela: "kso you have 3 pages from this workbook." algebra: "kso you can just go ahead and do these 3 pages, front and back." history: "kso you can just define these 20 words." art: "kso i need you to draw 10 sketches, shading and detail. every day. you should also be drawing something in your journal everyday!" study skills: "kso i need you to go online and do this assignment".
every. single. day.

Taylor:3 wrote:"It's for enrichment!" Just shut up, you can enrich us during school. 90 minutes per class, you can give us more than enough work to "enrich" our minds.
My favorite thing? When teachers complain, "Why didn't you do your homework?!?" Well, gee, I don't know! It's certainly not because I had a 3 hour dance practice, followed by an hour drive home, went out to eat, and did other homework before going to bed at 11 PM the latest. Certainly not!

This^^ This is my life story.
My teachers need to freaking get it through their heads that...I don't JUST take their English class. I don't JUST take their Geometry class. I don't JUST take their Biology class. I have six classes a day, at LEAST two assignments from each, I am constantly supposed to be studying for tests (who does that anyway??), and not to mention, the BIIIG project is due FRIDAY!! !

To be honest, I like school. Sometimes I even like homework. Yeah, I like learning, so what? I just don't like it when I'm up til one every night, have to wake up at five thirty in order to take a shower, and come to class only to find that I forgot to do some stupid worksheet, which brings my A down to an F...just from one. Stupid. Thing.

So at my school, Monday is a 'homestudy' day. We get assignments online for Monday, rather than going to class, which I appreciate so much. However, they screwed up this week. They put an assignment that was supposed to be for next week. So here it is, middle of Monday, and they finally posted the right assignment. We're supposed to fill out these 'vocabulary word maps'...one map, for each word. We have to write, for every single word mind you, the definition in our own words, synonyms, using it meaningfully in a sentence, and then draw a picture of it. I'm like...YEAH. MMHM.

how the heck am i supposed to draw 'verbal irony'.