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Cosbydaf
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Homework
Personally, I rarely ever do it, because it's a waste of my time. They usually never grade it on accuracy, so I jsut put down a bunch of fake answers. If it IS based on accuracy, I do it after school, before I go home.
Also, my math teacher is probably going to be pissed at me for not doing like 5 assignments, but he can go shove it.
Maybe if he didn't assign 70 problems for homework everyday, and if his schedule made any goddamn sense AT ALL, I might do some of it. Till then, I just make up reasonable sounding answers so I get the grade.
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I rarely didn't complete homework. Not because I'm a nerd or I love school ( hey, I'm a member of this site), but just to make sure I can discuss it with friends and teacher so that I understand the lesson and go to school peacefully. Our teachers don't grade homework. 
I'm not against homework, I'm against EXCESSIVE HOMEWORK. They think we have like 5 hours everyday to do homework. 
What are we??? Nerdtards??? NO. 
I've spent 10 years in school. This is my last year 
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stop stereotyping nerds, beeotch! not all of us love homework.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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Cosbydaf
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Rebelnerd Wrote:stop stereotyping nerds, beeotch! not all of us love homework.
I'm a nerd, and i can't phucking STAND homework.
Just because I don't do the same crap as all the other morons doesn't mean they can fill up my schedule with their crap.
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Im a nerd, and homework is bearable. But im really close to going SNAP! AGH!!!
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homework is shit. it screws up evenings cause little kids have tantrums, it hits you when you're most tired, it takes up free time for doing other things, and it just reeks of sheer, paternalistic arrogance that they consider themselves so important that they can control what you do in your free time, in your OWN HOME.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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BigWolf Wrote:Wolf doesn't do homework (you've read my other thread) and let's his stance on homework be known. 
Also, rarely ever does it, and if he does, rarely puts much effort into it, yet gets A's and B's on all tests/quizzes. He also has a 3.6 GPA and high state testing scores.
School is flawed, and that's simple proof.
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Hi, I'm new to this site (hope you don't mind me intruding) but I completely agree about homework, I've just been at school for 7 hours, the last thing I want to do is something school related, at my house no less.
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that's exactly it... it's the simple fact that they force it on you after hours
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Homework sucks. I have some due tomorrow that I plan to start (and finish) tomorrow morning.
And hi, Payback. Welcome
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"Homework sucks. I have some due tomorrow that I plan to start (and finish) tomorrow morning."
lol, that's the spirit. i've started essays 20 minutes before they were due. 65. bitch.
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payback123 Wrote:Hi, I'm new to this site (hope you don't mind me intruding) but I completely agree about homework, I've just been at school for 7 hours, the last thing I want to do is something school related, at my house no less.
Welcome to SS, you're not intruding... that's homework's job
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Thank you
And the worst part is now my teacher is giving us a sheet to give to our parents with a sticker saying that we either completed or didn't complete the assignment as if somehow I was back in grade 2, apparently a simple phone call can't do the trick.
"Great Job Billy!, do you want the turtle sticker or the lion?"
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Hehe.
I hate homework. My parents say "ITS YER JOHB". Bah. I didn't get hired, I was forced. And what justification do YOU teachers have to give me useless work that will amount to jack shit over MY weekend? And yes, it IS the student's weekend. Students have to put up with more shit then you ever have in this day and age. So fuck you, I'm not wasting my weekend with your work.
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Most of my homework is voluntary of which I only do math. My chemistry teacher is cool though. She assigns homework everyday but she has said that it is not there just to make work for us, it is there if we feel we need practice. She actually understands that people learn in different ways and she doesn't care if we don't do those questions.
My school starts at 8am and goes till 2:30pm, minus one hour for lunch means only 6.5 hours of school. 6.5 hours by five days means 32.5 hours a week. I work fifteen hours a week so that brings it up to 47.5 hours. Meaning I do not have a forty hour work week, I have almost 10 hours more. And I'm supposed to do homework? I completely agree with the sentiment that my free time is MY free time, not the schools.
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My maths teacher is cool now. He promised on Wednesday that he'll never give us homework on Fridays, even if we act like fuckin psychos  . That's a pretty schweet deal.
So we don't have to worry about getting impossible math homework to complete over the weekend from him, but our other teachers are evil (bad evil) like that. They give us too much homework for the mer-hey, I just realised we have trhe answers to the questions in the back of our maths text book 
But cheating is meh.
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