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Living Sacrifice · 09-18-2004, 05:26 PM

May homework die a painful death, just as it has caused a painful death for children worldwide.

lizwrenne · 09-18-2004, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ammamunia

May homework die a painful death, just as it has caused a painful death for children worldwide.

amen, brother! you speak for the good of the entire world!

jbm222 · 09-20-2004, 02:11 PM

AND LET IGNORANCE RULE THE WORLD! YAY!!!

OneWithTheMud · 09-20-2004, 02:51 PM

Oh, come on, homework isn't that bad... as long as it's not busy work. If it has a point and there's not too much of it, then it can be almost fun. But I guess since I'm paying $1,000 per class, not having that attitude would be a waste of money.

jbm222 · 09-21-2004, 01:27 AM

Yeah, college will do amazing things to one's perspective on homework. If you're taking a class were most of the grade is based on tests (rather than essays, since most college classes are one or the other), you might even find yourself doing extra homework problems in addition to what the prof. requires you to turn in.

A smart professor doesn't require you to turn in any homework and just assumes you'll do it on your own in order to pass the tests.

lizwrenne · 09-21-2004, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by OneWithTheMud

Oh, come on, homework isn't that bad... as long as it's not busy work. If it has a point and there's not too much of it, then it can be almost fun. But I guess since I'm paying $1,000 per class, not having that attitude would be a waste of money.

seriously. why do things cost so much money? i'm not even in college and my hs tuition is waaay high.

jbm222 · 09-22-2004, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by lizwrenne

seriously. why do things cost so much money? i'm not even in college and my hs tuition is waaay high.

I look at it this way... I'm a computer engineering major. I go to a private school, and probably 4/5 or more of my tuition is covered by grants & scholarships, then the rest is loans. If I had gone to the state school nearest the school I go to, I would pay probably 10% of what I do now. But when you compare the average starting salaries and actual % of students who got jobs within 6-12 months of graduation for my major... the salary for my school was about 52k, the other's was 48k. So even if I had 4k a year in loans, the difference would be made up in my first 4 years of working.

guitarmonkey<>< · 09-22-2004, 12:22 AM

I actually like homework.......I am the Kid who sits in the front says you forgot to ask for the homework * major groan from class* and asks for Extra Credit even though i dont need it, * boats* yup i had a 105% one semester.

**JBanana** · 09-22-2004, 11:04 PM

I used to not think that homework was so bad until this year when homework suddenly became HARD.

cloroxmartini · 09-23-2004, 01:41 AM

homework is evil. my precal teacher gives us so much. she's crazy i tell you.

jbm222 · 09-23-2004, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by cloroxmartini

homework is evil. my precal teacher gives us so much. she's crazy i tell you.

It's the only way to learn math. Unless you're Newton or Archimedes. Then you invent math.

Beth473473 · 09-23-2004, 08:26 PM

there's a better way! do it in class! work is for school, not for home

Brian-Alexander · 09-23-2004, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Beth473473

there's a better way! do it in class! work is for school, not for home

amen sistah! I don't really even get that much homework and im in the 10th grade so i think im a lucky guy.

jbm222 · 09-23-2004, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Beth473473

there's a better way! do it in class! work is for school, not for home

No, work is not for school. The problem is that high school, with the amount of teaching they actually do, should be reduced to 3-4 hours a day. They student could then spend part of the remaining 3-4 hrs they spend in school doing nothing at home doing homework. Then they could learn faster, be through high school by 15, then by 20 be out of college, and working a good and from a practical perspective, able to get married, buy a house, a good car, be independent of they're parents, etc.

But for some reason state laws mandate that you suffer through 12 years of crappy education making it extremely difficult to be well off financially and through with any college any earlier than 22.

***BillSPrestonEsq*** · 09-23-2004, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Beth473473

there's a better way! do it in class! work is for school, not for home

You cant learn it that way, unless you want 5 hr a day math classes.