<p>True, but you can do mindless hmwk while on CC...Plus,doesn't anyone just do the homework that matters/teachers are collecting???</p>
<p>Schools vary as far as homework. I'm in the #3 county in Florida and my school is #7 in the state (FL is a big state too). Someone from a school on the other side of the city mine is in told me that they only have to do small outlines for their AP US history class. I have to do 10 pg outlines (typed) and five other assignments per week in my AP Hist. class.</p>
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staying up 'til one??? wow! doesn't anyone just do the homework that matters/teachers are collecting? Or try not to procrastinate?
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When you study for test you might as well pull off an all-nighter. I did that several times.</p>
<p>Homework is good. It helps students retain information, but only when done in moderation. </p>
<p>If HW is routinely keeping you up that late, Jman, you seriously need to talk to the admin. HW is meant as a means of learning, not something that should occupy your every waking moment. </p>
<p>Homework is needed. Definitely.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>Well yeah, if you learn something from it, then that's fine. The homework I'm getting is busy-work.</p>
<p>I've talked to some of my teachers about it too, but they haven't done anything about it. It's not just me either. I've talked to other people who have stayed up as late as 3 AM.</p>
<p>yeah, i know i've been bashing staying up that late but I do for big projects/papers and when I procrastinate like mad, or even for studying...I just try not to make it part of my normal daily life.</p>
<p>After a certain point I just stop being productive, like a 2am cut off or something...Happen to anyone else?</p>
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Well yeah, if you learn something from it, then that's fine. The homework I'm getting is busy-work.
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Busy work for grade is evil.</p>
<p>I believe in every other day homework. But daily for 4/6 classes..:( Their data is interesting, top scoring nations assigned little HW, lowest scorers assigned tons. But I would always advocate more homework over projects/book reports/all that :mad:</p>
<p>Yeah, my cut off is like 9 o clock PM lol. I just cant stand doing anything anymore. </p>
<p>But as far as the question of homework, I really hate the busy work kind of homework, where it is just pointless worksheets that dont really have much relevance to what's going to be tested. I think homework is really really good if it is pointed towards the right thing. For instance, last year in Accelerated World History, my teacher gave us a bunch of worksheets every night where you just searched around for the answer in the book and didnt even learn anything. This year, my AP US History teacher rarely ever gives us actual graded homework; instead, he tells us to read like 6 or 7 pages, which we have to know in depth for the next day when we have a 10 question true or false quiz on it. He gives us one every day, and as much as i hate them, they really really help on the test.</p>
<p>Where do I sign? :D</p>
<p>Projects are worse lol. My Law teacher is making everyone teach a chapter of our textbook to the class. And I thought teachers were supposed to teach.</p>
<p>She's just looking for an excuse to sit around doing nothing that period and get paid for it. :)</p>
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Busy work for grade is evil.
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thats stupid... It actually helps out the grade to make up for "non busy" work like studying for tests which I don't do too well in</p>
<p>Yeah, but you don't learn anything doing busy work. Why do that when you could spend the same amount of time studying and learning.</p>
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Yeah, but you don't learn anything doing busy work. Why do that when you could spend the same amount of time studying and learning.
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but it helps your grade... It definately helps my grade if I do bad on tests/quizzes... And most of math homework is busy work and it definately helps for tests</p>
<p>True.....my english teacher last year only gave us 2 homework assignment per semester, and his test were worth 200 points. You can imagine how many kids got D's and F's.</p>
<p>Oh, off topic, but:</p>
<p>Has anyone who has taken an honors science class before the AP type of it think he/she could have taken the AP without an honors before it?</p>
<p>You know, homework is good. But if they got rid of it, I think I would still be deliriously happy, as would be everyone (except for those who've just graduated that wasted half their lives on meaningless busy work). :D</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>EDIT: To Q above: I'm going to take AP Chem next year, no prep. I guess I get to find out! :p</p>
<p>Haha, I'm going to try AP Physics next year without previous experience. I would study physics over the summer though.</p>
<p>One girl in my school took AP Chem in 9th grade without prep and got an "A". She told me she got a 4 on the test too. I wanted to do the same thing, but my guidance couselor really didn't want me to do it. I've looked at my school's chemistry books for AP chem and it doesn't seem hard vs. chem honors (not hard meaning "workload", but by the text in the book).</p>
<p>okay...I stay up till 3 AM doing hw. Yeah, my school has that hard-core rep...but STILL. I'm a freaking zombie. It's NORMAL for people at my school to end up in the hospital....is THAT what hw goes after?</p>
<p>I think hw teaches me NOTHING. Hw should be assigned to children until they reach hs. After middle school, they can figure out what they need to do. There are problem sets for math class in the TEXTBOOK (who's heard of that thing?)...for you to use. Why do we have so much of our population in remedial classes...no self-discipline. Banning hw will teach self-discipline and enhance quality work. You'll be pushed to pay attention in class and you'll find yourself creating hw......</p>
<p>Now, if you can't do that for yourself....you're just lame. My US history teacher last year did not assign any hw. I loved her. I got a 5 on the AP test with her. All I had to do was listen to lectures, take good notes, read the textbook, take good notes, and do the outside reading she recommended. She didn't require anything. This was all time-consuming...but never assigned..which made it flexbible and LOGICAL. I didn't have to do crud I didn't need to....</p>
<p>"but it helps your grade... It definately helps my grade if I do bad on tests/quizzes... And most of math homework is busy work and it definately helps for tests"</p>
<p>So...you want to do hw...so you can pass a class with easy buffer grades...aka INFLATION?! Do yu think you TRULY deserve an A for doing that idiotic WS or page of notes or whatever?!</p>
<p>I work quite efficiently....and I'm staying up so late. It's ridiculous.</p>
<p>I'm not an advocate of things of this nature usually, but seeing both sides of the table...I can say that hw is a waste of time. I DO think we need to raise our national standards of education though. AP History classes are a joke.</p>
<p>^good point, some kids in my AP class get away with an "A" by doing the homework, yet failing the tests. You know they won't get good scores in May.</p>
<p>Aspen, when you fail tests you desperately need that homework. But of course, in subjects where you ace tests easily busy homework is evil.</p>
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I know a guy who he is taking AP Chem without previous class, doing well.</p>
<p>I myself, am having AP Chem as a study hall since everything there was in H. Chem :)</p>