Thursday, 27 March 2008

The Dreaded Word: Homework

No matter how great you are at keeping calm, getting things done and not worrying, I can almost guarantee that you will at some point in your life become stressed by homework. Whether you are a student, a teacher, a parent - anyone who has to deal with homework, basically, is going to feel anxious about it at least once.

I personally am very good at organising my homework so that it does not build up and is complete and handed in on time, and I cope with stress extremely well most of the time. However, I think you cannot blame me for feeling a little bit stressed when I am sitting at a computer on a Tuesday night, using the hour I have between coming home from photography club and going out again to my knitting group to try to work out how to do the questions in my maths homework that has been set that day to be given in the day after. And somehow, please tell me if this is a false impression, but I regularly feel that I might be missing out on something when I get up at 7.00, spend the day at school then come home, do homework for the rest of the afternoon and evening, eat dinner, and go to bed. My weekends of course are often much the same, with extra homework to make up for the lack of school.

Homework of course is extremely important - six hours a day of work are obviously not enough, and I have nothing else to do in the evenings. I mean, why would anyone want to spend their time playing the piano, or even such a thing as the ukulele? And no-one does anything like knitting or crocheting or rag-rugging or beadwork, or any kind of sewing. I personally would much rather sit behind a desk for another couple of hours, or even in front of the computer making sure I improve my I.C.T. level for food technology.

I honestly think there are better things we could be doing.

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