Busy work, and then the teacher saying that it’s not busy work.
Here’s an idea: teach kids how to study by letting them do whatever works for them. If they don’t do anything, then they fail, but they also learn how not to study, which-in my opinion-is more “valuable” than drawing 5 detailed pictures that must be colored.
I hate how teachers at my high school always brag about how diverse our school is even though its one of the worst high schools in our state. 8-|
The guilty-until-proven-innocent absence policies geared towards delinquents and not towards students who are just trying to get work done by staying home because my school is a total waste of time and productivity
There’s just so much competition to get into the top colleges and it creates a really unhealthy atmosphere. Plus, Spanish classes often have terrible teachers (at least at my school) and the subject material isn’t necessarily the most interesting thing in the world.
I swear, I work about 4 hours a night just on physics homework. Even more on weekends. Not to mention that usually my class gets crammed with a bunch of new info and then have to take a quiz the day right after (these quizzes can even change your grade drastically by 1-2%). So if you didn’t get it during class, you’re pretty much a goner. Quizzes are usually over 10 pages. Our final was 22 pages too (albeit all multiple choice)!
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The work is wearing me down!! So much homework, lab reports, etc., and then I get overwhelmed by the killer number of pages on the exams. About one more month left, argh!
LOL, AP Physics senior year. Makes me nauseous just thinking about it…
everything
@LordBendtner always the liberals aint it
Busy work
I hate those people who say they never study and still get Straight A’s. What liars.
Like this Quora Post:
https://www.quora.com/How-hard-is-it-to-get-a-5-on-the-calculus-BC-exam
Teachers picking favorites and thus, undermining you.
People who endlessly complain about a class and never study, and then take the AP the next year.
(This is an AP science class, people! And none of us even really has the prerequisite!)
People who get their parent(s) to do their projects for them then always get a great grade. When I spend hours actually working on it.
People who chew gum with their mouth open when I’m trying to pay attention
Group work… And stuck with doing all of it [-X
the textbook my school uses LITERALLY tells teachers not to teach. so they sit and watch us read a textbook the whole period LOL
This one girl stole a copy of the retake of a test she failed and told me, her unfortunate tutor, that it was homework. I realized half way through that “I don’t remember doing this homework” and she was like “yeah, this is the retake”… Well, I don’t think I should be helping you with that, then!
I wanna build on what @RiceEater108 said:
People can coast on BS, and get pretty good grades without learning. Or maybe they’ve already covered all the material and shouldn’t even be in the class.
In my opinion, the worst part of all /that/ is when people say ‘the only people who really succeed are the ones who don’t have to try for their grades’
or
‘if you were gonna get a 2400, you’d have been able to get over 2300 without studying’
or
‘if you can’t do X, how are you able to do Y?’
The worst parts of achiever culture come together to form a hierarchy in highschool. That sucks, man.
I hate when people tell me I “work too hard” and I should “relax more”. Somehow it isn’t even a possibility that I like working hard, or that I like the subject matter. I wouldn’t have it any other way… (And I happen to value going to college more than I value going to Starbucks after school every single day.)
Nothing. I wish I had had the chance to study in an IB school, take challenging classes, take APs, and do all of those fancy things. Nevermind, Khan Academy FTW!!1