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Remember getting hours of “homework” in MS and HS?
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Date: May 21st, 2025 11:22 PM Author: Flickering address Why were teachers assigning so much homework in the 90s? I used to get at least 1 hour of homework per class per day on top of sports and clubs. My kids barely get any homework from their school now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952549) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 3:39 PM Author: magical razzle-dazzle famous landscape painting are your kids in MS/HS?
if elementary, your kids hardly get any because there's loads of research at this point that HW in elementary school is fucking stupid and achieves nothing except stunt social maturity |
Date: May 21st, 2025 11:25 PM Author: trip principal's office pocket flask i complained about this nonstop as a kid and i was always told in response that homework was necessary to "help reinforce what you learn in class"
i think at some point everyone realized this was flame because the dumb kids never learn anything regardless and the smart kids learn everything by osmosis anyway |
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Date: May 21st, 2025 11:30 PM Author: Flickering address It was twisted when you think about it. Kids were doing 4 hours of homework a night. We had to cheat from time to time just to complete all the assignments (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952567) |
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Date: May 21st, 2025 11:34 PM Author: trip principal's office pocket flask it really pissed me off. total waste of time. i was a really oppositional kid in general and i got into a bunch of fights with teachers about homework being a waste of time
in junior high i organized a ring of students who would divide up the homework every night and then copy each other's work once complete. saved soooooo much cumulative time overall |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 3:40 PM Author: magical razzle-dazzle famous landscape painting some rich kid group paid me like $400 to do each homework (six or so kids split the cost) and I'd shit out some calc in an hour, best money I ever made, better than most lolyers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48954288) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:35 PM Author: Swashbuckling Aquamarine Shrine The smart kids need to learn early that they'll need to put forth effort to excel.
the dumb kids could still use some discipline so they'll be used to working a job after hs. |
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Date: May 21st, 2025 11:36 PM Author: thriller shimmering doctorate rigpig Cr it’s a mark of how school fails in its basic function of teaching stuff. They couldn’t teach you in 7 hours a day bc school is a joke so they made you learn the actual shit at home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952574) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 3:13 AM Author: Well-lubricated codepig I hated how the different teachers of the same subject would assign vastly different amounts of homework. You could be taking the same classes as someone else and wind up with far more homework than them if you got assigned the wrong teacher (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952784) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 3:17 AM Author: gold location Imo
Homework is a hallmark of a lazy, dumb and bad teacher |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:29 AM Author: honey-headed soggy hominid "inverted classrooms" actually (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952979) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 3:48 AM Author: appetizing range it was gay but it wasn't really the volume wrt time that was the problem. language homework for example could be done thoughtlessly in front of the tv and math was usually easy. and it could be pleasant to be assigned a good novel or history reading and if i didn't like it i'd just blow that kind of thing off. for an intelligent kid the biggest issue is the absolutely retarded geriatric tyrant women who would force you to do tedious tasks and "projects" with zero pedagogical value, because their own mental constraints prevented them from ever understanding what it means to learn. they just equated education with busy work. these would be time consuming but the real punishment was that they were the mental equivalent of being forced to go to times square on new years eve with a full bladder. you would spend the whole exercise in boredom and mental discomfort, just waiting for it to end. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952795) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:59 AM Author: disrespectful electric business firm clown All CR.
What was the value in homework you could or would complete in front of the TV? That's part of why it was terrible. You didn't get much out of it. You just had to take the time and energy of going through the motion of doing it. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:29 AM Author: appetizing range it's all a product of bureaucracy and stupid women.
the kind of work that you could do in front of a tv (eg math) is assigned just to prove that tasks are being assigned and completed, for stupid parents who need to be shown that their kids are "doing something" and bureaucrats who rely on test scores etc to win funding and elections. it has nothing to do with real education, and parents and bureaucrats are happy to enforce it because they do not understand what education means (and most people in the public school system are hopeless anyways, so they might as well learn to be productive). but at least it serves a practical purpose in serving as a kind of IQ test and sorting mechanism to identify intellectually gifted children. and from there you can separate out the intelligent kids and hopefully give them something a little better, if you're a wise enough parent.
the time-consuming busy work "projects" are the worst though because they do not even accomplish this, they are simply the product of tyrannical women indulging their desire for power and influence over the youth, and affirming their frivolity and vanity as having social and moral value. thus dei macaroni art projects about billy collins become "the foundation of democracy" or some gay shit. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 11:12 AM Author: Supple pozpig school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953406) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 11:13 AM Author: trip principal's office pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953408) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:26 PM Author: scarlet tanning salon mad cow disease (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953855) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Buck-toothed piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48955035) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 4:13 AM Author: Anal 180 Potus I refused to do it and my grades were so bad on my 18th bday I tried to drop out so they put me on an unadvertised minimum plan to get my out the door. I then went on to fail my first semester of community college (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952800) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 4:23 AM Author: Diverse Dog Poop yeah i refused to do it too and barely graduated. at middle school “graduation” i even got some different paper than everyone else that said i didn’t complete it but they allowed me through.
i did fine in ug but going to a shitty one wasn’t ideal. fuck homework |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:20 AM Author: Maize selfie parlour Hey me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952968) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:45 AM Author: soul-stirring depressive so how did your life turn out? did you go back to college? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953014) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:18 AM Author: concupiscible jet-lagged roast beef area whoa cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953128) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:18 AM Author: Effete Regret patriot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953131) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 4:20 AM Author: Cerise dead lettuce rigor I can't remember ever really having homework besides math which imo you need the repetition to learn. If we were assigned a research paper or whatever I just downloaded one online. But I was surprised in college there was almost no homework and I found it a lot easier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952804) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:39 PM Author: Swashbuckling Aquamarine Shrine What did you major in? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953644) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:14 AM Author: histrionic ungodly field i for the life of me dont understand when the fuck you were supposed to do homework if you played sports. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952877) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:22 AM Author: Comical Immigrant Digit Ratio I remember being shocked at college. Math grades were like 60% final exam, 30% midterm, 10% weekly assignments consisting of like 8 problems each. All the dumbs who grinded their way to a 4.0 in HS were fucked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952885) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:43 AM Author: Frozen Big Theater Stage every xo poas: I'm a simple white man of prole scots Irish stock
also every xo poas: we had 9 hours of homework every night |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:47 AM Author: Vermilion garrison the two are not exclusive. common core wreaked havoc on educational standards nationwide iirc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952921) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:54 AM Author: Frozen Big Theater Stage Median age here is 42 not 24 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952933) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:02 AM Author: Vermilion garrison true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952951) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:20 AM Author: balding stain XO is filled with 6’4 midwestern HS football players who have been going to kumon since they were 4, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952969) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:21 AM Author: Aromatic temple degenerate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953136) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:46 AM Author: Vermilion garrison goyims you're getting it all twisted, like one of bubbe's home-made pretzels the industrialized us school system is not about EDUCATION it's about preparing you for a life of COMPLIANCE and top-down mandated DISCIPLINE. exercises like these are not to EDIFY or ENRICH you but to BREAK your SPIRIT and leave you as fertile soil for prospective employers to shape into either an economic cog or weapon of commerce |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:52 AM Author: obsidian idiotic goyim brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953038) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:59 AM Author: Effete Regret this is a word for word excerpt from a Leo Strauss lecture (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953063) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:23 AM Author: Vermilion garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953141) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:29 AM Author: appetizing range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953163) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 7:57 AM Author: disrespectful electric business firm clown Think of how many thousands (literally thousands) of prime boyhood hours were wasted on senseless homework, times millions and millions of American boys.
Huge amounts of homework from 2nd through 12th grade was a big part of the reason that I, and many, many other boys disliked school. (My wife, and many girls who liked getting gold star stickers from teachers, of course, loved it and ate it up.)
For most of the day, you had to sit still, copy things off the board, pay attention, and not joke around with your friends. There would be a few fun moments--recess, PE, a science project, learning something new in math or history. But most of the day was rote and boring. Almost excruciatingly so, at timess. Then, mercifully, you'd be released at 3:00. Except you weren't really released. The school's tentacles invaded your home.
You needed to read some textbooks, fill out worksheets, do math problems, read some generally unexceting book for English (sometimes we read interesting books), and work on a take-home essay. Thirty minutes per class per night times six classes was three hours of homework each and every night. And thirty minutes per class was not much by the standards of the day. And there were "projects" on top of that and quizes and tests to study for.
So much of the homework was boring busy work. You didn't learn anything from filling in blanks on a worksheet, but that was the assignment. You had to do 30 minutes of math problems. If you "got" it after the first 10 minutes, you were good to go and the last 20 minutes were a waste. And if you didn't get it after the first 10 minutes, you weren't going to after the next 20.
The one thing you can say for all that homework is that it sure prepared you for a career in biglaw. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:02 AM Author: magenta flatulent den Childhood education is deeply adrift.
The most fundamental problem - and its nothing but problems - is that no one can say what it is for.
Its de facto purpose is to warehouse kids in a meaningless way, so both of their parents can do meaningless work.
AI will most certainly eliminate the parents' jobs. This will not reunite the family, though, because AI will likely be put in charge of the kids. What will it train them for, if not to take over the parents' former jobs? Who the fuck knows....
We are facing a philosophical dilemma that we have not faced for millennia. I don't see any answers around
Most dystopian possibility is that our new "role" is to screen-stare, so the purpose of childhood education is to train us to do so, beating out of our personalities anything that rebels against screens. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:12 AM Author: Carnelian boiling water Homework was bs but I had Study Halls iirc. It wasn’t so much “hours of homework” as it was keeping track of which shrew assigned it and when it was due. There was sometimes seemingly secret homework that no boy with any testosterone could keep track of. The volume of BS fake work also discourages lazy geniuses from challenging themselves imo, while inflating Female GPAs while greatly reducing Scum GPAs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952965) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:15 AM Author: Offensive marvelous elastic band I just copied my girlfriend's homework in home room and/or lunch, I thought that's what everybody did (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952967) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:59 AM Author: umber tank Yes, everyone had a turn with your girlfriend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953242) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:07 AM Author: Offensive marvelous elastic band D'oh! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953262) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:23 AM Author: doobsian chapel probably 80% of my teachers growing up were like that. in HS id torrent the textbook's solutions manual and be done with homework in minutes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952971) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:23 AM Author: transparent puppy Remember the "show your work" prealgebra spinsters who wouldn't give you credit unless you rotely dissected 2x + 13 = 17?
That was really the beginning of hating homework |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:33 AM Author: balding stain You need to show your work in an upper division college engineering class. Nothing wrong with making sure kids have good fundamentals.
Having an hour of homework doing that same equation over an over again is another issue. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:35 AM Author: appetizing range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48952998) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:53 AM Author: vibrant crimson ticket booth Fuck off nigger. I could show my work on the first problem so u can see what I'm doing in my head. It makes sense to show your work doing diffy exns so that you can keep track of what you're doing or balancing a chemical formula or someshit in ochem, but doing it for a simple add and divide that I learned 6yrs ago in 3rd grade was infuriating. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953042) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:58 AM Author: balding stain We’re saying the same thing. If someone shows their work on the first problem and gets it, they don’t need 50 more of the same equation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953059) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:00 AM Author: transparent puppy for calculus classes i would naturally show my work because i had to solve the problem in detail and the process was necessary to reach the solution. not so for a simple equation. and to treat the smart kids as same as the retards was incredibly infuriating (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953244) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:06 AM Author: balding stain non-retards need to develop good habits and good fundamentals so they do well in calc, let alone upper level college stuff. you don't want a smart kid looking at 2x + 13 = 17 and figuring it out intuitively just by looking at it, but if he can quickly prove that he can write out the steps and solve it the "right away," you can then move on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953261) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:10 AM Author: transparent puppy you suck farts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953269) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:35 AM Author: appetizing range real math guys love to show their work. that's why they're in the game.
the "beginning of hating homework" is being told to make a pretty poster about a wrinkle in time. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:46 AM Author: magenta flatulent den hahah holy shit a wrinkle in time
180 post |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:09 AM Author: Offensive marvelous elastic band This hits home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953106) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:02 AM Author: transparent puppy yes, group projects on posters. oddly enough has the opposite effective and made me despite working in teams for the rest of my life. odd pedagogical choice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953248) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:05 PM Author: gold location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48955072) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:36 AM Author: gay sinister stead And then we were the last generation of lawyers to be juniors without ai. Millennials got fucked in the ass. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953001) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:42 AM Author: fishy racy corner chad kids' ability to put their thoughts to writing has dropped off a cliff and i think the decrease in hw must be a part of it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953009) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:45 AM Author: balding stain Society doesn’t value intelligently putting your thoughts in writing. It’s all media 10 second sound bytes and 150 character tweets and outrage videos.
Being able to express yourself in writing is a lost art. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:49 AM Author: Effete Regret yeah it's almost like they're niggers
how's being a kike faggot going? |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:51 AM Author: fishy racy corner chad https://ibb.co/0pp5zzL3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953036) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:53 AM Author: Effete Regret kike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953041) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:56 AM Author: fishy racy corner chad https://ibb.co/0pp5zzL3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953049) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:29 PM Author: disrespectful electric business firm clown You're right, and it's one thing I don't really "get." You could, e.g., ask a ten year old of average intelligence what his favorite movie is and three things he likes about it, and he could tell you the answer in a series of reasonably coherent sentences. If you handed him a pen and paper and told him to write down, using complete sentences, the name of his favorite movie and three things he likes about it, he would be confounded.
Why? It's just putting on paper the same sentences he would have no problem speaking out loud. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:50 PM Author: fishy racy corner chad i think the gap between spoken and written english (expository, not texts or tweets) is probably wider than we normally think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953692) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:47 AM Author: umber tank Counterpoint: homework makes it quicker to identify & quarantine lazy niggers and also gives lazy nigger teachers something to do besides complaining about Drumpf on tiktok (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953020) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:49 AM Author: Effete Regret ^this guy is onto something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953026) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:56 AM Author: appetizing range this is true but it just reveals what modern schooling has become. it is not about "educating" the youth, it is about acclimating the youth into a life of busy work and "productivity," to prepare otherwise dangerous spics for a life of flinging burgers at mcdonalds and "high achievers" for a life of preparing MPAs. given the country's current biological stock this is a practical catch-all approach to education in a society of hundreds of millions. but it is far from ideal and it will come at the expense of the wastage of many good souls. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953047) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:09 PM Author: Vermilion garrison twist: lots of cons are also niggers themselves, just niggers of the "camp capo" variety (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48954033) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:51 AM Author: Onyx theater I was in a middling school region but in a state highly rated overall for education. There were always these girls, these little Nancy Sues who were prim and mousey and did all their homework and excelled at everything, never made any trouble or did anything “wrong”. And where do they end up - some weird LAC in Vermont or something. You look at their social media now and they are just frumpy housewives with a paunchy prole goy Mr Fix-It husband. What was the point? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953034) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:53 AM Author: umber tank Sounds like they did pretty well at life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953040) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:55 AM Author: Frozen Big Theater Stage "in a middling school region"..."where do they end up - some weird LAC in Vermont"
Motherfucker you probably lived in a top 5% income ZIP code at worst. No normies are going to "LAC"s |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:57 AM Author: Onyx theater It was definitely not top 5% dude. This was a blue collar “middle class” town in central CT. The schools are just better overall than most of the country. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953052) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:59 AM Author: Frozen Big Theater Stage "Yeah Billy and I went muddin in his Z71, he told me he got into Goucher. So fuckin proud of him man." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953066) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:01 AM Author: Effete Regret OYT is a nerdfaggot pissy that he can't pull jew puss and has to stalk his 13 year old asian neighbor because he is a bald IT dork that plays gameboy all day
/curated |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:06 AM Author: Onyx theater I don't have to listen to this fucking bullcrap. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953094) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:16 AM Author: Frozen Big Theater Stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953125) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:28 AM Author: Carnelian boiling water OYT is right. The northeast has tons of LACs. For every one you’ve heard of there are a bunch others. Stonehill College is a liberal arts college. Many such cases. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953328) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:55 PM Author: laughsome seedy center jewess What about Grinnell or Sewanee (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953998) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:31 PM Author: disrespectful electric business firm clown My college gf called them "Ms. Perfects." They were like the Reese Witherspoon character in Election. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953603) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:48 PM Author: Swashbuckling Aquamarine Shrine They learn how to obey and not do anything wrong if they obediently do all their homework. Also luckily if they go to school in Vermont they'll at worst become college lesbians because no straight guys go to school there. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:54 AM Author: Crystalline institution There was definitely way too much homework then, in large part because there was zero consideration for how much other teachers might be assigning. If I'm taking 6 classes and each one gives me 30 minutes of homework, that's 3 hours of already limited after-school time. There was eventually more of an awareness that it should just be 10-15 minutes of work per class to reinforce the learning and help keep it moving efficiently.
But now it's going too far the other way where there's NO homework. Learning is much slower overall when they don't get the extra practice in because that all ends up being done in class, and they don't develop a good work ethic. It's part of the gentle/permissive parenting trend. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:57 AM Author: Frozen Big Theater Stage It's truly baffling that we've ended up trending towards parenting which is both more permissive *and* involves exponentially more direct parent involvement in child's lives. My parents were never constantly chauffeuring me between activities, sometimes they'd take me and most of the time I'd get a ride with someone else. Rode the bus. Etc. Somehow everybody loses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953051) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:58 AM Author: Violet razzmatazz lay Lol at all the ADD riddled freaks itt. Yes of course teachers are all retards and school is a warehouse for 99% of kids. That was obvious by elementary school. Instead of getting over stimulated and spazzing out like ur doing itt, you should have recognized that ur playing a longer game and that while the teachers' opinions don't matter at all, getting the checkmark matters so you can get the fuck out of there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953058) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 8:58 AM Author: thriller shimmering doctorate rigpig This is part of the reason we May end up homeschooling. Home school kids finish everything they need to do in a few hours and then have the rest of the day to do sports or whatever else. Schools fail at their basic function of teaching kids what they should know in a 7 hour day. It’s pathetic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953061) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:07 AM Author: vibrant crimson ticket booth My Big State U math dept rolled out some new homework program my freshman year where we would get weekly online assignments for engineering calculus that took 15+ hrs. Often the questions were to take the derivative of some MASSIVE equation that was far more complicated and messy than something they'd put on a test, and you needed to type your 75 character answer into a tiny box that you could only highlight scroll through, and if a single fraction was misspaced (the questions had their numbers randomized so we couldn't copy each other and thus wouldn't simplify themselves as you solved them like human-made problems often do) the portal gave you a fat WRONG response and you could spend the next 30min figuring out what you fucked up. Oftentimes some part of a fraction wasn't wrapped within the quadruple nested parentheses square root abomination. Meanwhile the rest of my dorm majoring in english or business was nonstop fucking & sucking and I'd often just give up and join them.
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:23 PM Author: twisted ruby trust fund athletic conference "Sucking and fucking." (Kike v. Kike, 666 F.6th 666 (6th Circuit 2016) ("Nonstop." (quoting Nigger v. State, 616, F. Supp. 6th 616 (6th Circuit 2006))). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48954066) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:10 AM Author: Lemon fortuitous meteor I never did any of my homework (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953109) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:28 AM Author: concupiscible jet-lagged roast beef area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953154) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:29 AM Author: appetizing range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953161) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:57 AM Author: talented hyperactive weed whacker I didn't finish high school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953236) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:47 AM Author: galvanic avocado azn It wasn’t the homework that was a waste of time (reading textbooks, solving math problems etc); it was sitting around all day while some dumb cunt flapped her gums and then sent you to the principal’s office if you didn’t sit still and stfu. I would never send my kids to a “school”, although it’s not clear what the point of education is going to be in the near future (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953351) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 11:39 AM Author: provocative chestnut pit indirect expression I never did it. From 5th grade onwards they put me in some accelerated class where I corrected my own homework. Terrible outcome for me. I basically stopped learning math at that point. However, I'd read everything in the library. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953460) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:02 PM Author: Diverse Dog Poop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48955067) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:31 PM Author: Dashing tantric useless brakes trump supporter Reading, writing, and 'rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953604) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:33 PM Author: Swashbuckling Aquamarine Shrine I'd spend at least a couple hours every night on homework in junior high, and more in high school. Was even studying all day on Saturdays and half of Sundays sometimes depending on the time of year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953620) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:57 PM Author: Aromatic temple degenerate I'm in the thick of this shit. math and grammar exercises are fine and lead to improved retention of the material ime.
by contrast 90% of the "fun" "creative" long-term projects are a pointless and vapid slog, utterly demoralizing. these are assigned because the *teachers* get bored, not the students, who almost all hate them and get little if anything out of them. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:22 PM Author: bat shit crazy antidepressant drug hall I did it with a shiteating grin and got straight As! Then I graduated from skool and got a corporate job where I do the same thing to this day! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953834) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:27 PM Author: scarlet tanning salon mad cow disease man i don't know what to think about this but i went to a middling southern public school and i really don't remember having very much homework at all. even in my middling state college time i only recall ever working at home the night before an exam.
i got my ass kicked 1l. i had no idea what "studying" was. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:52 PM Author: Carnelian boiling water How, then, did you ace OCI? 1L grades are crucial for OCI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48953987) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:56 PM Author: scarlet tanning salon mad cow disease you must have me mixed up, i didn't have a job when i graduated. i scratched and clawed my way to my current position. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48954002) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:08 PM Author: Carnelian boiling water I thought we all aced OCI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48954028) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:09 PM Author: scarlet tanning salon mad cow disease my wife and my mistress are both 9s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48954035) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:18 PM Author: Frozen Big Theater Stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48954050) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM Author: Cerise dead lettuce rigor In 8th grade math we were assigned a huge end of year project for some reason that had to use math principles, kids spent weeks building elaborate contraptions and poster boards etc. You could tell most of them had their parents help
The day it was due I took 2 paper food trays from the lunch room and taped them together with a fork for the mast (One was the boat & one was the sail) and when I brought it up to the teacher he threw it in the trash all pissed off. What do i care i still "graduated". What a farce |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:05 PM Author: White multi-colored coffee pot native The purpose of this is to break down the barrier to working hard. You need to break the rebellious spirit of boys and have them just accept that you need to work to get ahead. I’m one of the few people who thinks there is value in that, and ceremony, and ritual, and so I don’t really have a problem with it. Yes, some geniuses will be unfairly penalized, but they actually need to learn how to work hard, complete tasks, and close the loop if they want to function in the world. Especially a world that now has 80% busybody shrews project managing everything. It’s not like these kids would be pursuing passion projects in computer programming or doing introspective writing projects/journaling these days—they would just be playing fortnight or spanking it to hard core porn. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48955194) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 4:54 AM Author: Fantasy-prone Walnut Mother Coldplay Fan def lots of hw, but how else would you learn? class time is basically babysitting, or if they actually teach, they have to go slow for the dumb kids. you have to go home and learn the stuff yourself.
take math for instance, someone can show you how to do something, but until you've done it by yourself, you haven't really understood/learned it. |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 4:57 AM Author: wonderful blue ceo I remember having to read a ton of gay shit in law school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728687&forum_id=2#48955646) |