So I already showed you a long essay against mandatory homework. I found that essay by looking up "Homework is unnecessary" as opposed to "Is homework unnecessary?" I feel very strongly about this lol Anyway, I wanted to tell you my personal story which explains why I hate homework and feel it is a waste of time.
Up until halfway through 6th grade, I had been a straight A student. I've always been pretty smart and I was a swift learner. Along with being a swift learner, my parents haven't ever really made me do chores or anything like that at any time in my entire life so I guess I had never really experienced a day of hard work in my life lol I was always pretty lazy but since I was a swift learner, homework was easy and took about 10 minutes. So I get to 6th grade and things still aren't particularly hard but we get slightly more homework that takes more time and I'm starting to focus more on other things besides homework and school (notice how I mention homework separate from school because homework is bullshit and school is legitimate). I'm still doing ok though, I have straight A's up until the 3rd quarter. I got a very high B in English and if I had turned in a certain missing assignment, I very likely would have gotten an A. In the 4th quarter, I got a very high B in English again with 2 missing assignments. These missing assignments were homework. So we fast forward to 7th grade. This is where I start to get bad grades. What happened? Well there was more homework and I was doing less of it. To be honest, I was just being a lazy assssssss but I did notice something significant. I could get A's on tests and quizzes that I hadn't even done the homework for. It wasn't enough though, I was getting a D in math because we got a lot of homework and even though I didn't really need to do the homework (as evidenced by the fact that I could ace the tests) I was suffering because of it. My grade was really low because I didn't do something that wasn't even necessary in the first place. This year in 8th grade, I've been doing better but not significantly better. I usually slack off till I get that progress report halfway through the quarter. My grades are gonna look much better on 3rd quarter's report card than on 3rd quarter's progress report lol I had 12 missing homework assignments in math but I still had a 75% because I had aced the chapter 7 and 8 tests and I did good on the quizzes as well. I turned in 7 of those missing assignments and my grade is a B now but it still pisses me off. I showed total mastery and you give me a C? Total bullshit. I think homework should be given out but should be optional and reviewed the next day in class regardless of whether or not you did it. I don't know, maybe I'm just one in a million. Maybe other people actually do need extra practice but I don't and homework is stupid, annoying, time-consuming, stressful, and UNNECESSARY.
So let me get this straight. I'm being asked to do something that is stupid, annoying, time-consuming, and stressful when it's also unnecessary? This is the system that imprisons the brilliant minds and only serves those that are average. I really want to do something about this. I want to make a change but no one ever listens to youth. We're naive, ignorant, and immature and we don't know what's best for us. That isn't true though. After over a year of struggling with school, I have come to the conclusion that the system works for everyone else except me. So why should a change be made just for me? I'm not that special. Since they won't change for me, it's my responsibility to adapt to the system in place. I just wish the system in place didn't waste valuable time.
 Mythril Kain · Thu Mar 24, 2011 @ 03:06am · 0 Comments |
