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Schools Banning Homework?
theodp writes "Alarmed by indicators of student stress like cheating and substance abuse, some SF Bay Area schools are reducing an education staple: homework. Homework is mostly banned at Menlo Park's Oak Knoll School, but some teachers apparently have higher 'expections' [sic]."
boy there are some real gems in there:
8. Special Projects - occasionally there will be projects that the children will work on at home with instructions as to when they need to come back to class.
Teacher, teacher can I have a special project so I don't have to come back to school until it's done?
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How come the ol' "My homework is driving me to smoke pot" trick didn't work when I was in school?
Similes are like metaphors
These helicopter parents whining about homework need to take their kids and shove them up their ass. It looks like they never wanted to release their kids anyway....
This is silly. Homework is an important requirement in learning. The clear solution is 30 mg of Prozac a day. This has the added bonus of promoting abstinence. Win-Win.
Teacher, teacher can I have a special project so I don't have to come back to school until it's done?
Sure brat, just make sure you don't write anything that takes me more than 15 seconds to correct.
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Um. 15 what?
Fifteen words. To go with their fifteen second attention span, and their fifteen minutes of fame for being the dumbest of the dumb on the next generation of reality television shows. It could also refer to the resulting IQ of perfectly intelligent people passing through that particular gem of an educational system, after 12 (maybe 15?) years of concentrated dumbing down.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
Given how some people are when they finish school it's probably more like 15 sentences.
Or 15 minutes, whichever comes first.
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Maybe it isnt "homework" but the straight from school to the factory education model we use to teach children today.
Let's first try criticizing something that doesn't give us as many cheap laborers. I mean, you're threatening someone's bottom line there, you communist.
Note for the humor-impaired: The above post was satire pointed at the legal system being systematically fucked over to increase corporate profits.
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Cheers.
I believe the teacher was trying to spell "expectorations", as it is important to know how to spit properly.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I no did homework four school and me smart today
Will program for karma.
Thems fightin' words! Now, if you had mentioned Digg, I'd have agreed. Digg is populated by the very kids who aren't doing homework, don't want to, and wouldn't recognize a brain cell if it bit them. At least on Slashdot, even the morons can tell a packet from a rectum. Er, I hope. Otherwise, there're going to be some interesting network connections.
The standard unit for that is Libraries of Congress.
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"there isn't really that big a difference between this generation and the last few."
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It's no excuse for bad schools, but it does mean brigth kids are capable of learning a lot *even* with bad schools.
Its hard enought to get a good raid party going in World of Warcraft without eliminating a huge portion of the player base due to homework.