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The Benefits of Homework
This makes me sad.
Actually, no. That makes me want to write a sarcastic list about the "benefits of homework" instead. Anyone want to help? 
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Bob Dole
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Re: The Benefits of Homework
Hey, homework helped me. I learned the values of cheating,(well done) plagiarism, and copying. W00t for me.
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Homework is good for you!!! How else wilL you learn to hate everything that gets forced on you!?
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Re: The Benefits of Homework
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WOW, Let's just be all motivated to things we are against doing and stress our minds to death with self-denial.
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"Homework is a powerful way to extend learning."
That line actually made me laugh when I read it. Oh yeah, it's a very powerful tool to extend learning. Kids don't, you know, just write stuff down and try to forget school as soon as possible!!!
This whole article is just making me angry >:( They seem to imply that students would be unable to learn outside of school, if not for homework!!
"The students feel empowered," do they? Having their entire lifer controlled by that planner, their parents, and teachers. I'm sure they loooove it.
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After all, the bruises and emotional scars aren't enough to remember homework by - you have to do the HOMEWORK for that!
Outside school, teenagers have nothing better to do than homework.
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They have a forum. Oh goodie, this could be a win.
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I love wasting paper. I mean, I have it in my house, I need to use it! Oh, and don't forget all the time. I have time, I need to use it somehow! And unlike paper, there is no erase with that! I can't get any of it back! :biggrin:
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I want to call the article stupid but then I'd be doing an injustice. Language limits me in describing particularly horrible cases of fail.
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I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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Re: The Benefits of Homework
lulz, the most epic collection of facepalms evar
Quote:Hey, homework helped me. I learned the values of cheating,(well done) plagiarism, and copying. W00t for me.
So true.
Quote:Homework is good for you!!! How else wilL you learn to hate everything that gets forced on you!?
That's actually true in a weird sort of way... 
Quote:After all, the bruises and emotional scars aren't enough to remember homework by - you have to do the HOMEWORK for that!
You mean schoolwork... right? Otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Quote:They have a forum. Oh goodie, this could be a win.
I pity them. No, wait... I don't. 
Quote:I love wasting paper.
I could make a whole seperate thing about how school is destroying forests. 
The thing with sarcasm is that it makes people smile and also exposes the stupidity of school/homework/whatever all at the same time... which is why I like funny things, even though people might not consider them "serious" or helpful... they actually are.
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Lets troll them with anti school stuff. They have a message board.
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5 Wrote:Lets troll them with anti school stuff. They have a message board.
Better yet, let's not troll. Let's debate them with intelligent discussion.
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And let's take a moment to realize that there is a hyperlink here, and the admin there can check the site logs, and it could end up coming back to hurt these..... Fuck it all.
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Hey, they're a "family health" site. They wouldn't troll us.
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This one's not sarcastic...
If it weren't for homework, I would never have discovered SS. (Homework was the thing that tortured me the most in school.)
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Eh, homework isn't that bad. It's annoying to have to do those things you already know and it interferes with time that could be better spent learning something new, but it isn't horrible. I would say the worst thing about school is the forced curriculum with little-to-no choice from the student and the limited curriculum, because schools max out at certain levels of education (and this education is often not high quality). It does teach you responsibility, but in a very bad way: it teaches the child that responsibility always involves those things that they do not enjoy, and therefore they do not wish to be responsible.
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So true, homework is often in a "Drill-to-Skill" setup. If you do it enough times the hope is that it burns into your brain so you can't ever forget it. Personally I prefer the term "Drill-to-Kill", 'cause nothing kills the joy of doing something quite like forced repetition. 
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"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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