"I try to be fair: so I only assign a manageable one hour of homework." Well when I have three to four classes saying that I end up having to cut corners (which I don't like doing) to get my home work done in two and a half and get to sleep on time after four hours a week of after school drama practice (not including six (or more, lately) hours on weekends, weekend homework and projects are nightmares)
My school starts at 7:30 and 6:15 for band. Yes. 7:30/6:15 am. In the morning. Sun has not risen yet for band. Not. Fun. But we end at 2:30 so that's nice, except I have dance till 7:30 and most people do sports till pretty late too. (It's a small mountain town and VERY active/envirment friendly lifestyle kinda thing, 70% of people do sports)
WOAH that is very early! But I don't think it is really the same thing because you still finish at 2:30, if someone don't do sport or only on weekend he still has a lot of freetime to work with no stress....
We never have enough time to do everything, and we never will have enough time to do everything. You have to get your prioities straight and decide to not do homework from certain classes. But you're right, they need to cut some homework.
By the way, I also think it's strange that we spend our entire day at school and then still have to schoolwork when we get home. I think homework should either be able to get done within the lesson, or that there should be special homework hours during school when you can finish all of it.
Or they can cut homework all together and just let us make Practical Exercises and let us learn for tests.
You are oversimplifying a ton of your time. You don't get to count the hour before school that you get ready, you don't get to count the hour it takes you to get home on the bus. You don't (although its commonly accepted for some reason) get to count your 40 minute lunch break, or however long it is. You aren't AT SCHOOL LEARNING for those time periods so you don't count them. When you get out of school and get a job, you get paid for the hours you are there working. Not how many hours of the day weren't "free time" because of your job.
You also don't get to count extra curriculars. They are called EXTRA for a reason, because you CHOOSE to do them in your own free time. Even if its a learning extra curricular like science fair or whatever, its your choice to spend your potential free time doing it.
As to the homework portion, learn to manage your time better. On your ride to/from school are you staring out the window, or are you finishing up those math problems?
In that 10 minute break between every class, are you hanging around your locker talking to friends, or are you going straight to your next class and working on the homework you just got from your previous class? For lunch, are you sitting around afterwards, or working?
Do you "have to" spend all that time doing your homework? Course not, and I wouldn't suggest it, but you could easily do it for some of those things and manage to get a LOT of your homework done before you ever get home. Also you don't get to count an hour long dinner either. For one, I doubt you actually spend that long eating, and for two like the above things, its your time to do with as you please, you choose to spend it eating.
Just remember, if you think high school is bad, it only gets worse in college and afterwards
First of all, I'm homeschooled soooo you're asking the wrong person. I asked friends what it was like, and that's what they told me. Second of all, ya I spend an hour eating supper. I don't know if you like to or not, but I like to talk with my family and take my time eating. You can't just say I don't take an hour when you have no fuckin clue what I do. Third of all, if it had more to do more with the topic, I would've put something about how it only gets harder because I knew someone like you would say "Oh, college and real life are much more challenging so get used to it." Lastly, the point wasn't entirely how much time you spend in school, it was also how much free time is being stripped away.
By the way, I also think it's strange that we spend our entire day at school and then still have to schoolwork when we get home. I think homework should either be able to get done within the lesson, or that there should be special homework hours during school when you can finish all of it.
Or they can cut homework all together and just let us make Practical Exercises and let us learn for tests.
You also don't get to count extra curriculars. They are called EXTRA for a reason, because you CHOOSE to do them in your own free time. Even if its a learning extra curricular like science fair or whatever, its your choice to spend your potential free time doing it.
As to the homework portion, learn to manage your time better. On your ride to/from school are you staring out the window, or are you finishing up those math problems?
Do you "have to" spend all that time doing your homework? Course not, and I wouldn't suggest it, but you could easily do it for some of those things and manage to get a LOT of your homework done before you ever get home. Also you don't get to count an hour long dinner either. For one, I doubt you actually spend that long eating, and for two like the above things, its your time to do with as you please, you choose to spend it eating.
Just remember, if you think high school is bad, it only gets worse in college and afterwards