Saturday, August 1, 2020

Do My Homework App

Do My Homework App These lamentations are a ritual whenever we are gathered around kitchen islands talking about our kids’ schools. I don’t remember how much homework was assigned to me in eighth grade. I do know that I didn’t do very much of it and that what little I did, I did badly. In Southern California in the late ’70s, it was totally plausible that an eighth grader would have no homework at all. One of my biggest problems when it comes to doing homework is procrastination and getting distracted. I constantly check my social media accounts, my favorite blogs, or just browse without getting anything done. At one point, I realized that all I do is just wasting time, so I wanted to change it somehow. One time, while trying to write a 500 word essay, I was struggling for 5 hours and finished it only by 2am â€" 6 hours before I had to submit it. Her correct answers were there, at the end of each neatly written-out equation, yet they weren’t segregated into a separate column on the right side of each page. I’m amazed that the pettiness of this doesn’t seem to bother her. School is training her well for the inanities of adult life. She explained that this sort of cross-disciplinary learningâ€"state capitals in a math classâ€"was now popular. During the school week, she averages three to four hours of homework a night and six and a half hours of sleep. Before contacting a Nerd, I used to do 3â€"4 homeworks at a time and, needless to say, the quality wasn’t the best. The Personal Nerd advised to do one work at a time to ensure that I fully focus on it, then do a short break, and proceed to the next one. This strategy helped me reduce stress of having everything to do, and the fear of not getting some homework done by the due date. If you’re also a multitasker, I’d highly recommend this strategy and avoid piling up information trying to do everything at once. Seventy-nine pages while scanning for usable materialâ€"for a magazine essay or for homeworkâ€"seems like at least two hours of reading. Some evenings, when we force her to go to bed, she will pretend to go to sleep and then get back up and continue to do homework for another hour. The following mornings are awful, my daughter teary-eyed and exhausted but still trudging to school. Esmee is in the eighth grade at the NYC Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies, a selective public school in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. My wife and I have noticed since she started there in February of last year that she has a lot of homework. We moved from Pacific Palisades, California, where Esmee also had a great deal of homework at Paul Revere Charter Middle School in Brentwood. I have found, at both schools, that whenever I bring up the homework issue with teachers or administrators, their response is that they are required by the state to cover a certain amount of material. There are standardized tests, and everyoneâ€"students, teachers, schoolsâ€"is being evaluated on those tests. I’m not interested in the debates over teaching to the test or No Child Left Behind. What I am interested in is what my daughter is doing during those nightly hours between 8 o’clock and midnight, when she finally gets to bed. She added that by now, Esmee should know all her state capitals. She went on to say that in class, when the students had been asked to name the capital of Texas, Esmee answered Texas City. Every parent I know in New York City comments on how much homework their children have. Reading and writing is what I do for a living, but in my middle age, I’ve slowed down. So a good day of reading for me, assuming I like the book and I’m not looking for quotable passages, is between 50 and 100 pages. As a classroom teacher, I used to hear excuses from a few students every morning about why they did not have their homework. She has told me she feels that the many hours of homework in middle school have prepared her well. “There is no way they can give me more homework,” she reasons. Our math homework this evening is practicing multiplying a polynomial by a monomial, and we breeze through it in about half an hour. When I get home, Esmee tells me she got a C on her math homework from the night before because she hadn’t made an answer column.

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