IKR! August was ruined for me because of those damn AP Lang, Psych and US/VA projects.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually, we have summer break because this was harvesting season back in the days. We needed some extra labor support in the form of students, hence why no school around this time. Nowadays, the summer gap in schooling is totally useless (besides for having fun or whatever) and is detrimental to student's academic performance. Maybe by giving you assignments, Mrs. Teacher's Name is doing you a favor.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Back in the days, that's true. Now however it's not. The summer break may be academically useless in that we aren't learning anything new, but personally without having a 3 month break I'd probably stop trying in school. I for one need to take a break from having 3-4 hours of work after a 7 hour school day. And not having to balance that with 2 and a half hours of athletic practice and an hour of practicing both instruments, is a relief. Teachers don't seem to understand that the homework that they assigned is not the only responsibility that kids have, so without this Summer gap, i'd probably be doing a lot worse in school, and therefore later in life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A longer school year means less homework, you know. They give out homework to cover stuff they can't cover in class. With an extra 3 months, homework handouts will greatly diminish, if not disappear altogether.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

With an extra 3 months to spread out 9 months of homework i'd have 3/4 the amt of homework each night... even if i only had an hour of homework each night i'd still have 45minutes, but I get around 3 hours... i'd still have 2 and a quarter hours of homework each night...if teachers realized and actually spread it out like that. Instead they'd probably go more in depth with everything we did, so more than likely we'd have the same amount of work....for 3 months longer.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Following your logic, you'd actually have 2/3rds as much homework as usual, not 3/4ths. But even so, that's not quite how it works. You're assuming that teachers would continue to give out the same amount of homework each day even though we have an extra 3 months of schooling. This is not true. Here is a more accurate way to look at it: (Assume the curriculum doesn't change due to the new school schedule) Let's assume you have 2 hours of homework, since that's usually the average. The reason you have 2 hours worth of homework is because that is the total amount of work/time that teachers did not have to assign that work during the school day, which we'll assume is 6 hours long. Each day added is an extra 6 hours for the teachers and students to do work in class. Assuming a 5 day school week, 4 weeks in a month (20 days), and a 3 month summer break (60 days), that gives us 360 hours of time in class doing work that would otherwise be done at home (6 hours x 60 days). Let's assume a 5 day school week, 4 weeks in a month, and a 9 month school year. That gives us 180 days. Given 2 hours a day of homework, that equals 360 hours of homework during the whole year. That ...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Sorry for long post) That number is completely canceled out by the extra hours the summer schooling session gives us. Any small deviations form the averaged numbers I used still results in a drastically reduced workload for the year.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Every girl's head just exploded from the complex mathematics and logic used in that post.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except most teachers don't look at homework as a way to do stuff they didn't have time to do in class, 1. Everything we do in class has to be thouroughly explained until everybody gets it, turning 2 hours into 3 or 4 Secondly In the average school day I don't have every class that i have homework for, Most of my homework comes from one of 4 classes, the science, the math, the social studies and english. Having 9 classes every day, The teachers that gave out homework only get 4/9 of the day, still leaving 5/9 of the homework, which if it were 2 hours would be 66 minutes of homework per day, but honestly I get around 3-3.5 hours per day which would leave 100 minutes of homework per day, which is counting that teachers strictly used the extra time for homework. 3rd, Having a "summer break" with 6 hour schooldays and 100 minutes minimum of homework to look forward to, would definitely dampen my spirits, part of studying as hard as i can for the end of year tests is knowing i'll have a 3 month break afterwords (which is really only 2 months and a week or so) That being said I'm not really caring about this argument for argument sake I'm more just having fun haha

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Argumentation is always fun, bro. It's only the noobs that get worked up over it so don't worry, lol. And I don't know your specific situation. I was just giving a generalized view using averaged numbers and what homework is usually given out for - to cover what wasn't covered in class (this is more true in high school). Btw, 3 hours of homework a day?! Jeez, I never had more than 20 minutes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I have to read two books...not two chapters...and two projects...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't just have to read them, I have to answer 10 question each of which are around a page long, i have to define 83 words in the chapters and i have to memorize all the countries and their capitals in Europe, and then answer a good 40 or 50 more questions about the reading... =/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Mine is a 12 page comparison if the two novels

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ouch : P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Beautifal thing is I.havent touched the books nor have I put pencil to paper

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I started this morning, school starts tomorrow -.-

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Two chapters? I had to do a 50 page AP Environmental science report, along with reading 4 of the most boring books of my life for AP English and take lots of notes for my reading focuses.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm just talking one class here, i had other assignments, besides you're probably not going into 10th grade : P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You can't complain about summer work if it's for an AP class. You knew it was going to be hard work.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wouldn't complain if it was during the year, it's not that its hard work its just time consuming

by Anonymous 12 years ago

it's easier over summer because you don't have as much going on.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Last year I did 10 chapters of AP bio and two books for AP US history. Luckily there was nothing for AP Spanish.. Nothing for AP Calculus either

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I dont understand how people can have homework over the break.... you get a new teacher and class when school starts again. Your old teacher isn't technically your teacher anymore...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

unfortunately it's the new teacher assigning the homework :(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

how? at our school you don't even know who your teacher is until the summer is over

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Our school's different =/ halfway through the summer we got our schedules then i got a call from this teacher a day or two afterwords

by Anonymous 12 years ago

whoa. weird.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, my summer has already ended, so no complaining about summer assignments for me. SCHOOL on the other hand....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you think AP is bad, try doing the IB, we had 12 books to read over summer, two world literature essays, the extended essay and a bunch of packets and other shorter essays (by shorter I mean 2000 words.) I had no summer whatsoever.

by Anonymous 12 years ago