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Post by General Veers on Feb 15, 2009 19:22:42 GMT -5
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RANT 1: HOMEWORK
You know what really just makes me want to kill the world in many very bad ways? HOMEWORK. I understand that we need to learn, but why spend seven hours AT SCHOOL and then get home just to do more WORK?! I don't know either. As I sit at my computer listening to "Let it Rock", I know that I still have a few hours of homework ahead of me. I need a break. I have a life. Except that life is normally smashed in the freaking face by HOMEWORK. Hours and hours. Here is a little thing I found called "The Ten Commandments of Homework"...
1. We live in a democracy, where we have freedom, right? We're entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So how can I pursue happiness if I have to spend every night doing homework? Homework is a cruel punishment created by adults to take away the freedoms of poor, defensless children.
2. Nobody ever saved a life, won a war, stopped a crime, or cured a disease while they were doing homework. Think of all the good things we would be accomplishing if we didn't have to spend every single night of our young lives doing our homework.
3. Doing homework cause eyestrain, fatigue, insomnia, and other physical ailments.
4. Thomas Edison went to school for four months, and he never did ANY homework. Guess how he turned out?
5. There's a name for working without getting paid. It's called slavery, and it was banned durin the Civil War, about 150 years ago. If kids are forced to do homework, they should get paid for it.
6. Homework is proof of teacher incompetence. If the teacher was any good, kids would learn the stuff at school and wouldn't have to learn it again at home.
7. Doing homework wastes valuable naturale resources. We have to use lots of energy to keep all those lightbulbs burning. We have to cut down trees to make paper and pencils. We'd save of lot of energy if we just decided on banning homework altogether. (Although I do CARE, I'm NOT an environmentalist.)
8. I keep hearing about American kids being way too fat, and that's because they don't get enough excersize. For every minute kids are doing homework, we are getting fatter. Kids should be outside, running around and getting excersize, instead of sitting inside, doing homework, wasting their lives, and getting fat.
9. Virtually every known murderer, bank robber, and all-out criminal did homework when they were kids. How can we be sure that homework didn't cause the criminal behavior?
10. Homework sucks. There sould be a constitutional ammendment banning it.
Did you know that you wouldn't have known about your constitutional rights without homework to reinforce what you learned in school?
Did you know that true long term memory can only be acheived once something that needs memorized is written, typed, or otherwise reproduced?
Did you know that homework was assigned in order to reinforce what we learned at school?
Did you know that Thomas Alva Edison said, "A genius is someone who does his or her homework."
Did you know that most people who don't do homework are less likely to accomplish their goals than those who do complete their homework?
Did you know that virtually every physician, mechanic, and teacher also did their homework? How can you be sure that homework didn't cause the improvement of their skills?
Did you know that most people will change their life goals after completing several years of homework?
Did you know that those who do well in school are more likely to realize the benefits of homework than those who do poorly in school?
Did you know that more and more paper is being recycled and that more and more light sources are becoming energy-preserving LEDs?
Did you know that doing homework without pay ensures that students will receive more pay when they get jobs while doing homework with pay ensures that money will reduce laborers' wages and cause an economic crisis?
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