Friday, 17 September 2010

What actually is the point of Homework? (Rant)

I'm in School for eight hours a Day: 8.16am til' 4.50pm (although I do get a 1 Hour lunch break). I normally get up around 7.30-ish, so I've got about 45mins to get dressed, brush my Teeth, eat my much needed Brekkie and perhaps do some Internet surfing for five small minutes but normally I take my time with my Breakfast. I spend the next painfully long eight Hours reminiscing mostly about what is the first thing I'll do when I get back Home (for me, it would have to be jumping into Bed and playing on my treasured Xbox console for an Hour before finally succumbing to my aching tiredness and just plain Crash-out!). But alas, now that isn't normally the thing I'll do. You see, they may keep you in School for eight Hours but they forget to mention the THREE HOURS OF BLOODY HOMEWORK they add onto the end of the each Day! What the hell has happened? Homework has gone up by nearly 30% compared to last Year! I never did understand why Homework was so important anyway. Why not just keep me in School for another three Hours? Surely I've got a life outside School?! All this Homework means that on average I only get about three to four Hours all to myself! That may seem like alot to some people but for me three Hours just passes by SO quickly (Ironically: three Hours in School lasts almost twice as long! But hey, I suppose thats life for you!). Why send me back Home in the first place? (Sometimes they let me off a bit though the Homework-o-meter has increased alot lately.) My point being: WHAT IS THE POINT OF HOMEWORK! Is it just there to annoy us even more and make Life PAINFULLY slower? Yes I'm sure there is an explanation on why they torture us like this but its still an annoyance/pain/bullet-to-the-foot! Sure you have your own option of choosing not to do it, but they sucker you into it with the PROMISE of good Test results (and a harsh penalty of punishment if you fail to do it, so really you have no choice)! Sometimes I think they give us Homework only for sake of giving us Homework! Example: For French on Monday I have to look up TEN Definitions of weird unprouncable words that nobody has ever even heard of! Why? Its not like I'll ever use them! Homework is just quite simply a unfair-affaire, it exists to Stress people over the fact that they have to learn 13 pages by Heart or get a bad Test Result (Not 13 Pages per Subject, but with all of them put together, you do have learn all that every few Days). God I hate Homework. 


P.S Yes I am aware that Homework is a neccessary part of Education and does help you to Progress in Life, my answer being: LIFE IS UNFAIR! Which is actually ironically funny for me.       

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