School

“what do you guys think about school.”

“i always liked it. what grade are you in? i am guessing junior hi? do you like gladiator movies?”

“This reminds me. Where is Ice Tea these days?”

“i miss the parties.”

“ice tea is on law and order svu now”

“I miss the uninhibited sex.”

“I don't miss the coyote ugly b!tches.”

“HA!! Tell us how you really feel, lz! :-D”

“Even if I never again have a relationship (and I figure I have another 30 years to go) my weekly average will be good thanks to high school (I graduated in 1965).”

“ya old hippy!

;)”

“I are a teacher to-day.”

“molding young minds, fondling young bodies...”

“Whatcha Teach Grem?”

“HPM just directed to the powerpoint presentation for Laurel's new school, which she'll be starting at the end of August. The new school is called Barnette and their mascot is an eagle. It starts with one of the worst animations I've seen, a badly cropped rectangular photo of an eagle against a blue sky doing apparently random loops around a white background page, with other photos of the school. I laughed from the horror of it. That had got to be the worst bit of site related animation I've ever seen.”

“Lordy. Laurel's in second grade and already has (what feels like) mountains of homework. Just for tonight, she has a 14 word spelling list, plus writing a sentence for each word, plus 20+ minutes of reading, plus math worksheets, plus addition chart memorization.”

“My son is in 4th grade and this is the first year he's had a considerable amount of homework. He's lucked up in past years getting teachers that don't give much homework. That does seem like a lot of homework for a second grader!”

“I remember my nephew bring home homework in kindergarten.”

“Laurel had homework every night in kindergarten, too. It mostly consisted of US reading to her, then helping read the same book herself.”

“Its called homework because kids brought work home with them to do outside of school. I did it. My parents did it. Their parents did it. When did it become the norm that homework was supposed to be completed in the classroom?”

“Hyway, don't think anyone is complaining about kids having homework here. It's the extent of it that is the problem. My nephew who is now entering 6th grade this year, had homework last year that required him to stay up until 9 - 10 most nights.”

“i like the way my algebra homework is done. we do it online, and get immediate feedback so we can figure out what we did wrongly. the handouts also include the answer, because it is the process that is important, not the final answer”

“LZ, what time does the kid start their homework?

Not saying this is what happens with your nephew, but I here parents say that then when I ask them it turns out the kid doesn't even get done with after school programs, sports, etc, dinner, and chores (if they have them) until after 7 pm. Then of course they have a few minutes of TV before starting homework.”

“Around 5pm when he got home, hyway.”

“what kid goes to school till 5pm? I was off the bus by 2:45-3pm tops. Did my mountains of homework while I was home alone till about 4:30-5pm, could play with friends until dinner was ready once mom got home, then they checked my homework and I corrected/finished it, read a book, tv or played until bedtime.

After 8th grade I started having to stay up till 9-10 to complete some of it.”

“Jesus, what sadistic bastard gives a 6th grader 4 hours of homework a night?”

“I still don't believe the kid works continuously for 4-5 hours. He probably starts at 5, goofs off instead of working, then eats dinner, kills time doing other stuff afterward then finally gets back at it around 8, then the parents get exasperated and start haranguing him and then he gets serious about it and finishes the task. Or he had 3 weeks to work on a project, its do tomorrow and he hasn't done a lick of work on it yet.

I will be entirely shocked if it turns out the kid actually spends 4 hours a night actually doing homework.”

“"...its do tomorrow..."

And when it comes due is when the doo doo hits the fan.”

“lol, your to true”