They really shouldn’t even give it to the younger kids,whom rarely ever do there homework and that job ends up falling on the parents. lolSlaves received activity breaks as well Lion Rocker.

I generally do much better in my classes where I have assigned homework than the ones where I don’t. A private Christian school in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, is under fire after asking fourth-graders to lay out three “good” reasons for slavery as part of a homework assignment. Is homework slavery? At that time the nobles renounced all their feudal rights. The system is broken, there’s not much we can do to fix it because truly understanding academia requires interest in it.

This kind of contract was one means by which people too poor to come to the colonies were able to pay for their transportation. However, calling it slavery is... inaccurate, I think.I want to write him a letter simply stating “Suck it up you goddamn pansy.”…Um. The Quakers had long protested against the trade, and their efforts finally bore fruit. The Portuguese, as they gradually moved down the West African coast in the 16th century, were the first to introduce African slaves into Europe.

High School is completely skippable unless you’re of the right “caliber” to be considered for a full scholarship or something which 99% of students typically are not.Yeah, I didn’t really know what homework was until College, since homework is cake until you end up writing five page papers every week and over 150 pages of reading. I don’t want to write about them! Most lived on plantations, where they did all the work as both house servants and fieldworkers. So it is absolutely wrong to compare homework with slavery. Part of his essay reads: “Homework is assigned to students like me without our permission. I hate homework too, but if this actually starts some anti-homework political movement I’ll facepalm through my head.The kid has no idea what he’s talking about. ), but that’s probably due to what I’d like to call the "Black market calculus ring", where we just blatantly copy the smart kid’s homework from the advancing periods, as well as the upcoming test questions and answers. :VYeah, it’s true but I like to exercise some restraint since you run the japanboard on this site.If you can't slam with the best then jam with the restHomework does suck but tbh I wish I still had homework credit here in law school for itSeriously I can get away with not doing the reading for classes since you’re not called on every day, but in the end my own procrastination and ADHD hurts me. Given the fact that most elementary school students aren’t given “fill in the blank” types of worksheets, I can’t imagine this kid’s assignments being Anyways, I think his argument is pretty misguided but it does encourage some discussion on the validity of homework (if only because he didn’t bring it up at all Think about a fifth-grader’s day: (take a big breath here!) Thus, homework is slavery.

If anything she’s by far the most social and outgoing girl her age among those I know.My purpose in homeschooling actually isn’t to insulate her from other kids, but to give her a real deal education. Sounds like recess to me.Personally, I say make homework recommended but only optional. Indians and poor colonists were forced to work in fields and mines. At least the mandatory homework compliance in grade school enforces better study habits. There is no situation that completely, 100% forces you to do it, but if you don’t, then you fail your course.When you go to school, it is understood that there will be homework.You might be shocked to learn this, but technically, you don’t And hey, even if this was slavery; at least you’re free when you turn 18~!I dunno, can’t you get picked up by police if you’re wandering around outside of school during school hours? Servitude is the general term used to describe all types of forced labor.

)Jatopian says something correct, more at 11. Homework is a form of practice thus the number of times you do it, it will make you master it. Terrible!We had a topic about homework a while ago, if I recall, and my sentiants remain the same.I’ve found that homework isn’t so bad in your senior year (Unless you take AP lit, where you are required to read an entire novel over the weekend, but really, that’s not bad at all, it’s why I’m in the course! It is not slavery.

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This last couple of week has been a very tiring week because there are two college entrance exam that will basically decide my future. They have to do homework on different subjects on a daily basis irrespective of your grade or stream etc. Sometimes teachers and professors give so much work that students feel overburdened and start thinking that homework has become a form of slave. In the end, you get out of the system and pursuit what you want to do, even if it does suck up youth and time, and you don’t gain much from it. By keeping the workers poor, the owners of estates and mines created a permanent system of peonage that was virtually identical to slavery.The corvée, or statute labor, was different from other forced labor arrangements because it was labor performed for the government, involuntarily, on large public works projects. No remorse, no regrets. "You know who that was? (LR, Luna, Spooky Mook, and I are all out of high school, I am reasonably certain. What you failed to notice, Ben, is that when a person’s mind is stretched in a direction through learning, it can’t be stretched back. I believe it was Patrick Henry. The books in the public and private libraries of Rome were copied by hand by groups of slaves. At least, I didn’t do it at home. It’s incredibly foolish not to do it, but you still have that option. A bunch of stuff that other people want done, whether I like it or not.Oh, and for the record, I never did anything I would call homework in my entire school career, until I got into college.