homework

I am not much of a complainer, and I tend not to dwell on the things set forth but I do have to agree with the complainers that the homework issued out by for the most part, all my teachers is a bit much and a serious need to assign more during class and less at home is definitely worth some time thinking about.  I spend on average 3 hour or so, on just the small homework things, such as math problems, reading assigned pieces of literature, and busy work, things of that nature.  Those three hours do not include the massive amounts of writing and blogging assigned throughout the week.  I would have to say I write at least 3 to 5 pages a week minimum from the blogs to the current events assigned in other classes and it is very hard handle.  Sure, it is not a lot of work for the student that is not involved in outside activities, clubs, sports or a combination of the three, but to the student that is involved in numerous clubs and honor societies on top of playing a varsity sport, which in itself is very demanding, means the homework given for the most part has them working into the late hours of the night.  Homework on the weekends is a given,  not one weekend has past where I have had no homework at all since the beginning of the year, and no the first week of school does not count.  I always have 2 to 3 blogs due and those are usually saved for the weekends due to the huge amounts of work given throughout the week prior.  But besides that, work is usually given by almost every other teacher on the weekends on top of the blogs put off due to the huge load of homework already being taken care of.  There is a tremendous change from last year to this year in the amount of homework given, and not only in just a few classes, it is in every class.  In addition the huge bump up of writing assignments given from English to electives which I find absolutely ridiculous, that writing assignments must be given in electives, but that is a whole other story.  Last year hardly any homework was given and homework on the weekends was a rare occasion, but instead more work was done in the classroom which I find much more beneficial.  Lastly is what, is the purpose of homework?  Yes homework reinforces the things taught but what I seem to find is happening this year is the homework given is not taught in the classroom at all especially in subjects like math and the next day the entire class period is spent going over the homework, defeating the purpose of why homework is assigned.  I tend to wait to the last minute to do larger projects, but not to the point where it affects the quality of the finished product, and they are usually always on time.