Monday, August 17, 2020
Let Us Do Your Homework Tonight
Let Us Do Your Homework Tonight At least make some doodles in the textbook and abundantly cross off everything explaining you did it under another uncertainty attack. âThe thieves have grabbed my briefcase in the morning while I was walking in school. We fought and fought, the briefcase opened, everything fell from it. I reached out to them the first week of school to politely tell them my daughter would only be doing as much homework as would feasibly fit into our lives. I asked them to contact me if she was struggling in any areas so that I could shift our focus onto those subjects and I asked them if they had any questions for me. Hi there sweet Joy, I am encouraged by your words even though I am far beyond high school senioritis and not presently in college. I do hope to go back some day when the time is right . And truly whatever we put into it we will get out of it. I am praying for you as the Lord guides your steps through your senior year and beyond. That being said, itâd be unrealistic to assume a âpartial-homeworkâ policy will be the norm forever. Someday, when my views on homework collide with the mainstream school systemâs views on it, tough decisions will need to be made. You spend a lot of time each day waitingâ¦waiting for teachers to take attendance, for classmates to settle down, for your bus to come, or for appointments. Maybe you can get three math problems done while your teacher takes attendance. Perhaps you can do your science homework on the bus ride home. Did you know that 775 million adults are illiterate? On Wednesday, I was speaking with an old spiritual director of mine and she was telling me about some work she had been doing in Kenya. She said that in Kenya most students are not able to progress in school past 8th grade. I graduated high school when I was 16; I hardly had time to have senioritis. No sooner did I have my driverâs license than I was walking across the stage in Gryffindor colors humming Pomp and Circumstance. As a classroom teacher, I used to hear excuses from a few students every morning about why they did not have their homework. As Cal says, to avoid slumps, you should be doing some amount of work every day â" even if itâs writing just one sentence for your English essay. Among the textbooks they took was a math notebook with my written assignmentâ. If it is not fair to punish someone for something they didnât do then why students get penalized for not doing homework? This fair question apparently haunts the heads of those students who are figuring out how to get out of doing homework these days. So far, weâve been lucky to have teachers willing to work with me. If they ever had headaches, theyâll understand. âI just sat down to do my homework when out of the blue a giant hurricane appeared and bang! I sure might have done it with candles but my parents do not allow me to do it. Maybe soften up the teacher with a bunch of hard to pronounce words from the subjectâs unit? A few minutes here-and-there can quickly add up to 1 or 1.5 hours of free time later in the evening. Many teachers would agree that the number one reason students fail classes is due to missing homework. Creating excuses for homework lowers your grades and encourages a very bad habit for your future. To do this, firstly, you need to take your assignments and projects, including required readings, and break them down into manageable chunks. Before contacting a Nerd, I used to do 3â"4 homeworks at a time and, needless to say, the quality wasnât the best.
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