BEDA II

I think homework should be assigned differently. There should be options, for English and History at least.

Notes for history should be an option. They work for so many people, but there is a significant part of the students that view it as a waste of time busy work stupid face time waster that's stupid an takes too much time. Alternate assignments could be answering the questions at the end of the section. You know, thinking.

Instead of giving a narrow selection of topics for a research paper for English, let students choose what they want to research, like truly choose. Also give an alternate assignment instead of a research paper/speech. How about reading and analyzing a contemporary work of fiction, eh? Thinking, you know.

As far as I can tell, the purpose of high school English is to get you to think and to coherently write down your thoughts. If that can be done in lieu of researching some dreadfully dull topic, then why shouldn't it be?

And with History, I believe that its aim is to get you to be able to learn about the past, and by extent, be able to manage cause and effect.

None of the assignments in those subjects that I mentioned above currently require the use of thinking. That's my problem. Thinking is way more interesting for me than parroting information found in a textbook. I can easily thing in term of computer science, and math, and science. That's interesting for me. Research and notes, however, require more of a worker bee ethic than anything. And I can't do that.

Also those two things are making my spring break suck a bunch.

PS: in checking my page views because I'm a narcissist, apparently someone from Indonesia's seen thin o_0