As you may well have noticed I recently attempted to do some advertising of my blog through Facebook to increase my number of readers. This endeavor seems to have paid off as I looked at my blog when I got home and lo and behold I have another follower bringing the total to five at the time of typing this. So ecstatic am I at this recent 25% increase in followers that I decided to write a celebratory post about the one thing that is bringing my mood down at the moment.
Homework, or homework assignment, refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed mostly outside of class, and derives its name from the fact that most students do the majority of such work at home.
^That is the definition that Google gave me when I asked it to define homework.
Now I have to say this very nearly sums it up. However I have plans: I need to get down to playing some serious LOTR:Online for my next review; I have music I want to listen to; I want to try a new song on my guitar and most importantly I really need to get round to doing those thank you calls for my birthday. On top of that I need to eat, put the rabbit away and watch Star Trek at 8pm. I'm not even a very active person so I don't know how someone fits all that in plus goes out with friends, plays sports, goes to clubs and have a significant other.
A school is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision of teachers.
^Thats what Google defined school as. Now heres the point I have been slowly dragging this entire post to. School is compulsory (Ok I haven't reached the point quite yet but bear with me). I accept that. The thing is school is "to learn, under the supervision of teachers." Homework "students do the majority of such work at home." I am not "under the supervision of teachers." at home (yes my mums a teacher but I'm not exactly supervised in my room) therefore homework is not school. From this I deduce that homework is not compulsory. From this I deduce that homework is an evil ploy to waste my time, bring my mood down and generally get in the way. Therefore I request a new definition of homework that goes something like this.
A waste of time used to aggravate students and get in the way of important things like Star Trek and looking up amusing images on the Internet.
I would go on but I have homework to do...
i think it used to have a point, but now its a corrupt waste of time, some of it has a purpose such as coursework(sort of like homework) but most of the time its do this sheet becuase it exists. i do homework because im trying and i want to do well and earn respect from the school, im not a clockwork orange or anything since i choose to do this, also i like homework when its actually marked, that way your work has some benifit. i like homework when its designed to the specification of the student, for example lets say my homework is to write a film review, i will do that since i enjoy it, in fact i will write 2(i actually wrote 2 for my homework because its enjoyable).its enforced as nesseary despite the fact its barely glanced at most of the time, its as if the schoola know its useless but they know its part of the system, so most of the time the homework your getting i suspect is out of date photo copys from a generation ago. basicly its a decoy as it has no puropose other than to fulfil its existance by being a nessesary waste of time.
ReplyDeleteI concur although I noticed you didn't give the I a capital every time and you spelt schoola instead of schools. But this is the kind of comment I look for so thank you,
ReplyDeleteyeah lol typos, i only noticed the schoola mistake until after i posted the comment
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