Don't know what is with public schools these days, but they seem to give off less and less homework. Granted, I am in eighth grade, but I have less assignments than when I was in sixth grade. This is odd, as the amount of work that is assigned to a student is supposed to increase as they get older, not decrease. When I went into school I expected much more homework, as if the teachers are going to crush us with homework. Turns out they did, but not in a good way. Even though they did give off a lot of homework, most of it seemed to be busywork.
The bulk of my homework now is Language arts. This is not what I expected of it. According to the previous students, this year the students were not going to slack off; rather, they were supposed to be crushed with load upon load of work. Moreover, they were saying that the bulk of it is in projects, rather than with regular work.
According to the teacher, she does not want to grade multiple assignments. This could not exactly be considered, but she at least could think about what is happening, instead of boring us with weekly assignments that are mostly monotonous. Although many teachers do not exactly think of their assigned work to be monotonous, it IS. Sure, this is not what we expect from such a hardworking teacher, but just because you are not going to rate our work does not mean that we have to be deprived of projects.
Turns out it did not end up to be that way. I got a worksheet every so often, with a review or something like that the comes in every two weeks. This is not what I want. I want some real work. If the instructors can permit it, I want extra projects and extra reports. Those are the two things that homework is supposed to be about. Why this lazy busywork? Why just credit? Can we have more work that is worthwhile to do?
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