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For proposes of this blog and many of my other online life, my name is Genesis CrimsonHeart. If you know me by my real name already, good for you, you’re special. For those of you that don’t, my first name is Brandon. I am a silver league zerg player. I have a youtube page I upload to very rarely. I also write on this blog even more rarely than that. The reason that I am still in silver, don’t make more videos and that I rarely blog is this: I never have anytime. Yes I am blaming it all on the whole “I’m just too busy” excuse and you know what I hate it, cause it’s true. I know I sound like a 16-year-old girl and I’m sorry for that, but I am trying to vent. I have four very close friends that I can only communicate with over the Internet via skype. I miss being able to regularly get online to talk to them and play SC2 or Minecraft or whatever. I don’t even have a job, It’s all school work and work around the house that I do to help out my folks. I don’t mind helping them and that’s not really what takes up most of the time, it is my homework. I think homework is a dumb idea and I will tell you why I think that.
This is not a section where I am going to complain as much as try to relay a real point that I have and try to make the reader understand. Homework is a dumb idea because it is totally unnecessary. Lets think for a moment how long an average student is in school. Eight hours a day. That is a pretty long time but not to bad. For a full week if is fortyish hours. 40 out of 168 is not so bad, but lets break down how we spend the rest of that time not in school. A human being should spend about 8 hours a night sleeping. We also need time to do things such as eat (1-1/2 hours), brush our teeth and hair(10 minutes), use the restroom(30 minutes), shower(15 minutes), shave(10-15 minutes), and get a health amount of exercise in.(30-45 minutes) Added together, that is almost twelve hours that is needed to keep a human being health. Add the 8 hours of school and your up to twenty hours of your twenty four hour day taken up. Good now we have four hours to relax and enjoy ourselves, which I may add is also needed for staying healthy, but more important happy and sane. Problem: Even though we where in school for 8 hours already, each class wants to give you anywhere for half an hour to three or four hours of homework a night! Typically a student has six classes, so lets take the following situation. For your first hour class they give you half and hour worth of homework. Second hour give you an hour and third hour gives you none. Fourth hour dumps a full two hours on you and then fifth and sixth hour give you half an hour each. Four and a half hours of homework, but we are not done. As we all now, homework is not the only thing that needs to be done at home, there is also studying. Lets say, as a low ball, you study for fifteen minutes a night for each class. Although it is six hours of study/homework. Notice a problem? We had four hours left and the homework is going to take six. So how do we fix it? We could make more time by skipping school, but that is illegal. We could not do the homework, but that will negatively effect out grade and if we are going to fail the class then why even show up to school in the first place. We could create more time, but even though physics is wrong, we can’t create more time in the day. So the only logical option we have left if to not eat, bath, groom ourselves, go to the bathroom exercise or sleep.
Homework takes up so much time that it will lead to being mentally and physically unhealthy. So now that we have lost two hours of sleep five nights out of the week, let us consider two other things; extracurricular activities and a job. These two things are very important for several different reasons. First of all a job makes someone money. Money, if you didn’t know, is pretty damn important now-a-days. Jobs also build character, teach important skills you can’t learn in school or really anywhere else and they also make future employers more interested in you, if you have past job experience and glowing recommendations from past employers. What I think is even more important is the extracurricular activities, such as football, soccer, D&D club, choir, philosophy and drama club. These are the things that make middle/high school and college so memorable and run and they shape our personalities and behaviors whether or not we notice it. They look good on a job or college application, and they are where you make long lasting friends and learn useful skills you could always use. I have been kind of going on for a while about this, and I am sure that most of you think this is stupid and don’t believe me. I hope my next thought will make more sense to you then.
What was one of the first things I said? We are in school typically for eight hours. Eight hours is a long time. How is it that we are in school that long and they can’t teach us that lesson in that time. It is a far amount of time and we have school five days a week for about 8 months of the year. So it is not really necessary for they’re to even be homework. It is just the teacher that doesn’t care enough to find a better way of teaching or to control the class well enough to have quiet to learn and keep everyone on track. I think a little homework is alright and good because there is a little something that you may miss here or there, but much, much, much less than we have now. It really comes down to that there are much better ways of relaying information and having someone else learn it, but the teachers decide that they don’t want to do it and the school boards don’t have the money for it.
Well I am done with my rant, hope you all enjoy, btw Day(9)’s slender was amazing you should all go watch it. Too my four amazing friends I miss you and I hope to see you very soon. Also I will hope to be doing more videos and blog entries by next weekend, if not, it was because I had some family crisis. To all of you lovely ladies gentlemen and variations there of, I hope you have a wonderful day/afternoon/night and I always look forward to night time.
 
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reading that made my eyes hurt, would be nice if you could put some paragraphs in it instead of a wall of text...
Newsflash: As you will get older, the ratio between leisure time/duties will get much worse for you. School/college is awesome, after that your leisure time decreases rapidly, right into virtually nonexistant at times..
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If you think school/homework takes up a lot of time... please don't ever have children!
I struggled with some learning troubles when I was in high school (ie homework took me longer than it was "supposed to" to complete) and I still had way, way more time then than I do now. Granted, my school was only 6 hours (though, once you add in transit time it comes close to the eight you base your calculations off of.)
And teachers will never be able to control the classroom well enough to teach everyone all that needs to be learned in the short amount of time given. In a class of 30+ people, it just isn't possible that every single one of them will be able to grasp a concept in the 60-90 minutes given. The whole system has a few very glaring design flaws...there's the focus on rote memorization... the class sizes, the arbitrary decision on what needs to be taught, etc.
And implying that the teachers are lazy when they do work longer than you is kinda... mean. And, again, just because there is a better way they could relay the information for you doesn't mean it's the best, or that it would even work for the other 29 people in the class. Allso, I find new teachers try harder to "control the class" -- the ones that have been teaching for years have given up because it just isn't possible.
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Lol, your school sucks, or you are really slow at making homework.
Sorry your wall was really hard to read, so only read halfway. Do all your teachers check if homework is done? If not, problem solved. Do they all check it properly? You can also just put in bullshit sentences everywhere, if they don't check what you've actually written.
Also, don't you have time to make a part of your homework during the lessons themselves? I usually was able to finish some or all of my homework for certain subjects if I didn't slack during the lessons.
If all of these don't solve your problem then you have the worst school ever :D
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Maybe you are just a slow learner? Really, you should quit your job imo. You can work the rest of your life. What's some mundane job going to teach you?
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SO much hate! Haha I know I deserve it thought, I did say that I was going to rant like a 16 year old girl, So I did kind of give you a warning and all. Sure I wasn't being totally reasonable, after a while I just kept typing. I didn't expect everyone to raise up in arms and attack the school boards and force them to not have homework  I agree AngryMag, that was a wall of text, I'm so sorry I didn't even notice how awful it was to read until you commented on it.
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Paragraphs man, paragraphs. Press that enter key.
I do think that you seem to be spending way too much time on homework, though it's not clear whether your school just likes to fuck people over or you're just really slow at it.
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I would consider asking your parents to invest in a tablet or laptop if you are allowed to bring those to school. At school, you can already do written homework during lunch, before/after classes (as they get started or wind down), or during class. This way you will also be able to do typed homework, research, etc. with the right tools.
Homework also doesn't take 4 hours on an average day. I spend anywhere from 1-4 hours per night on homework and I'm probably taking the hardest classes in my grade. Sure, if you leave a research paper until the day before you're going to be up all night, but you should've started on it when you only had 1 hour of homework.
+ Show Spoiler +AP Lng/Cmp
AP Chem
AP US History
H Precal pt.2, Calc pt.1
H Physics
H Spanish 4
Ethics/Morality (Have to take religion class, catholic school)
Paragraphs, man. Maybe homework takes so long because you're not a very good writer.
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Paragraphs please, I keep losing my place when I read. Press the enter button a few times
People like it, well I do anyways.
Makes it easier to read.
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On October 28 2012 02:30 Recognizable wrote:
Maybe you are just a slow learner? Really, you should quit your job imo. You can work the rest of your life. What's some mundane job going to teach you?
Teaches you responsibility with money.
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I did a lot of my homework during class haha. :D then the rest of my hometime was devoted to videogames. I literally did very little in high school...
Now, 6 years later, I honestly miss being in school.
Wake up at 7:30am, spend an hour getting ready/making breakfast (make-up takes
me a long time) and then commute to work. Return home at like 7:30pm, make dinner, play a videogame, shower and then pass out hopefully before 1am. Rinse and repeat.
I hate to be the one to say it, but, "high school will be the best time of your life"
not because of actual high school, but rather you are in the point of your life when you have more freedoms than reponsibility.
It's really all about time management. Allocate your time accordingly and you will find time for sc2.
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Im not from US and I dont know what system you have there. But I personally did most of my homework in school. I had lessons almost everyday for 7hours. But there was enough breaks so I could do everything in time. At home I only studied for tests and stuff like that.
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So it is not really necessary for they’re to even be homework
Is that the case? (;
Keeping up in your classes (paying attention, looking a head a little bit, asking questions instead of stewing) works wonders for saving time on your homework. The stuff that you need to do goes more quickly, and the stuff that is "optional" becomes less time consuming. Put in a little bit of time in advance and you will be coasting the rest of the way.
In reality, you won't spend 4.5 hours on homework every night. You will spend an hour here or there. Before deadlines, you will have big spikes with a lot of work and it will cut into your sleeping time and your weekends, but only intermittently, not consistently.
Think about efficiency.
You tally up time for school, and eating, and exercise, and hygiene, and transit, and sleeping, but what about wasted time? Have you ever thought about how much time in a day you might spend on facebook, reddit, TL, livejournal, tumblr, myspace, youtube, looking at your cellphone, or other similar activities? Chances are it's more than you realize, and it can be alarming when you think about how much time is spent on exactly nothing. Try to control time spent on these activities. Just be aware of the time that you spend.
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I think your attitude towards learning is pretty well reflected in your writing style. I don't think you will find much sympathy among your peers on this forum.
In high school, I had a relatively normal schedule compared with my classmates. For example, class usually begins at 7:30am, with band rehearsals extending to about 5pm, and ultimately me getting home at about 5:30. (about 10 hours if you can't do the math there)
My classes looked something like:
Junior year:
H Precalc
H Chem
AP Physics
AP Lang
AP CS
Band
Senior year:
AP Calc
AP Chem
AP Comp
AP Macro/Polisci
Band
Leadership-ish class
I will say that my homework was probably 2.5 hours (of efficient work) maximum per night. High school was cake.
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I currently attend UCLA taking two foreign languages, spending 10 hours a week on exercise, and at least 4 hours a day studying. Yet I find myself with sufficient time to dick around and get BORED of gaming.
You arent doing it right
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I thought my magnet high school was hard... until I got to college.
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