Starrfall on 17/9/2006 at 16:38
I think in high school I probably averaged 60 minutes a weekday?
But that seems pretty low, and this was like 8 years ago so I don't really remember. It may have been more. The only stuff I recall going "arggh homework fuck you" over was math assignments. I definitely don't think any of it was "too much" though.
Maybe you KIDS with your PANTS and your IPODS should stop whining and WORK harder.
Fingernail on 17/9/2006 at 16:49
I did practically no homework at home by the end, any homework I did do I either did at school in a free period or lunch or whatever. Other homework I didn't do, or did some late. But I'm not the kind of person to flaunt that attitude, so most teachers would readily forgive.
There are too many dids, didn'ts and dos in rapid succession in the above paragraph, for which I do apologise.
Parker'sSire on 17/9/2006 at 17:04
I had about 1.5 to 2 hours a night. I used to do it with music (headphones) and the TV on my desk at home both on. I was also a master procrastinator through college... got good marks, but could have gotten excellent marks if I got off my ass. In the end the procrastnation wasn't worth it; it carried over too long into my "real" life later.
I now teach in a situation where there is no homework (not a "regular" school) and I think the students could benefit from having the responsibility, the experience, and the feeling of accomplishment with at least some kind of assignments to do.
Pyrian on 17/9/2006 at 18:07
Quote Posted by Pyrian
I don't know how much homework I was assigned since I basically never did any of it. :cool:
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Please tell me you work at McDonald's :(
No, I'm now employed as a database engineer in a biotech-services company. Everything I learned back than that is important to my current job, I learned on my own time. They certainly didn't have classes in databases where I went to High School. They
did have a programming class, which I took, but I was already horribly over-qualified for it.
Brawler150 on 17/9/2006 at 20:13
I had 7 classes at a time back in High School, and each would assign about 30 minutes of homework per night. That comes to about 3.5 hours per night. I would get home at 4:00 PM after riding the bus. If I started it immediately, I would be done by 7:30, 8 at the latest. After eating dinner and bathing, I would have to go straight to bed and be asleep by 9 to get 10 hours of sleep. Even if I only had 1.5 hours of homework per night, that would leave me with a total of two hours of free time, a measly 1/8 of the waking day.
What conclusions can we draw from this? I had way too much fucking homework. Most of my peers were in similar situations, so I'd say that overall schools probably do assign too much. Personally, I blame a lack of inter-department communication. The way the system is set up, it's impossible for science, math, and english teachers to coordinate to prevent homework overloads.
Personally, I did very little of my homework, and didn't study much. I managed to get into a University like that, so maybe homework isn't all it's cracked up to be. I think homework's efficacy would be greatly enhanced if there were less of it, so that students wouldn't be so intimidated.
Sorry for the essay.
Arondil on 17/9/2006 at 21:00
3½ hours a night is far too much, even as an exception rather than the norm. Besides, who is going to mark the work? By having pupils with seven classes a day, the teachers should be averaging at least five and that is a lot of work to mark. I wouldn't want to have to do that much (marking, that is).
Scots Taffer on 17/9/2006 at 22:15
Quote Posted by Fingernail
I did practically no homework at home by the end, any homework I did do I either did at school in a free period or lunch or whatever.
^^^^ Had no friends at highschool. :(
Aerothorn on 18/9/2006 at 02:13
Quote Posted by Arondil
3½ hours a night is far too much, even as an exception rather than the norm. Besides, who is going to mark the work? By having pupils with seven classes a day, the teachers should be averaging at least five and that is a lot of work to mark. I wouldn't want to have to do that much (marking, that is).
That's the funny thing about this - it's either for students to say "the teachers are just out to get us" till you remember that they actually have to grade this stuff. So obviously, more homework hurts teachers, too - I've talked to teachers about this before and so many of them are staying after work for 5 hours a day grading papers and whatnot, it's ridiculous.
So if it hurts the students....and it hurts the teachers...who, exactly, is behind all this homework?
Microwave Oven on 18/9/2006 at 02:32
The Lizard Men!!
I was clever enough to see though their conspiracy, and thus never did any.
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I have had personal experience with the whole grading the homework thing. I was a teacher's aide in high school and was the one spending 5 hours a day grading homework assignments while the teacher had already punched out for the day. At least I got paid real money for it, instead of getting class credits like some other school jobs I did. :sweat:
Shug on 18/9/2006 at 04:07
Over here homework wasn't graded; you were occasionally spot-checked or simply asked a question from up front. This was usually conducive to me doing absolutely no work at home, ever... especially maths, which involved opening the textbook two hours before an exam to see what was going on.
It really did lead to bad habits in uni, though, definitely (and, unsurprisingly, only just scraping through maths for the year after a first semester failure)
