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Well I made one post today. I'm plum tired of the internet/computer after being on it since I got home from school and being on it before school ended for about an hour and a half doing research (and I got home around 4:15ish) for a powerpoint. Sorry for the lameness.

Here is my Question:
What the heck gives teachers the right to assign work without enough class time to finish it? And what right do they have to grade us on things we are forced to do once school is over and we have no obligations to follow "thier rules?"

Aside from all that I hope you guys have a great evening!

Trust me; what your teacher assigns should be the least of your worries, in terms of how 'fair' it is. The thing is, in college (assuming you go there), there is little to no assigned work that can be done in class, with exception to quizzes and/or tests. All of the time taken in class is from listening to the professor speak and taking notes, notes used later to do the homework, which, guess what, is graded most of the time.

As for the second question, teachers have that right because they are responsible enough to know what you need to do to succeed. Believe it or not, homework and studying are the best ways to fully understand the material, letting the teacher give you the most out of what you can learn in one year/semester by 'forcing' you to do it. Now, if you're one of those gifted students who happens to get along fine without the need of these practices, go on ahead and rant. Truth is, if that's the case, you're not speaking for much more than yourself.

Words from a future math teacher,
Kysono

pretty much.

I can tell, they both share the same style. It's quite good.

Yeah I know it was two questions. xp I just felt like ranting. And in my defense something is making me go to school it's called the Government and you have to be 16 to stop going to school but at that age you have to get parental consent(?) until you are 18 and you can then stop since you are a legal adult... Or something to that extent.

That didn't answer the question about where the right comes from. But I will say the government/societies peer pressure to some extent and out of respect for the person who is trying to help you.

Technically most school rules must still be followed but once school ends then many rules (no hats in the building for example) are often disregarded though I assume some stuck up teacher could in fact give you detention or some other sort of punishment for it. Once I'll say that societal peer pressure is what forces people to do homework since without "good grades" people won't even glance at the rest of an application.

I understand that homework is to help me and many people "need" it to understand the material and most of the time I don't mind doing it but sometimes it seems they forget that people have lives outside of the "learning" that goes on at school (which im ny opinion doesn't happen in many classes) and that people need to relax and have fun. It just seems like pointless stress. But hte underlying question was why couldn't they just do all that at school in the time they have? I suppose the answer is that they just want to tell everyone too much for the year they have and if they did all that in class then the school might be year round.

And in response to Kyosono:
Yeah college is way over the top. No wonder so many students go out and get drunk. I still intend to go of course since life without a college degree sucks.

If I'm not interested in it why would forcing it upon me make me learn better? I really don't care for some of the subjects and like many students the information goes in one ear and out the other after the test and finals.

As closing statements (untill if/when someone responds) I shall say that another thing I haven't mentioned is a person's own drive to learn and be successful. I am often accused of such a thing and I do like to learn and expand my knowledge and I have high grades and am a successful student and athlete. And truth be told I don't really have anything "better" to do than school work but it isn't particularly enjoyable to anyone. I was just venting some steam that had built up due to constant annoyance with a certain teacher who hasn't really taught me anything this year and another teacher who assigned this big project before the final and all the information has nothing to do with it thus distracting me from studying for that (but I do have almost 100 in that class not like missing a few points is going to kill my grade).

~darkmag07