Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Done My Homework
'Done My Homework' We moved from Pacific Palisades, California, where Esmee also had a great deal of homework at Paul Revere Charter Middle School in Brentwood. There are standardized tests, and everyoneâ"students, teachers, schoolsâ"is being evaluated on those tests. I donât remember how much homework was assigned to me in eighth grade. I do know that I didnât do very much of it and that what little I did, I did badly. She explained that this sort of cross-disciplinary learningâ"state capitals in a math classâ"was now popular. 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. These lamentations are a ritual whenever we are gathered around kitchen islands talking about our kidsâ schools. 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 hadnât made an answer column. Her correct answers were there, at the end of each neatly written-out equation, yet they werenât segregated into a separate column on the right side of each page. Iâm amazed that the pettiness of this doesnât seem to bother her. School is training her well for the inanities of adult life. 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 wasnât 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. 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. A story of success and happiness shared by Chris â" a student using Nerdify services. As Cal says, to avoid slumps, you should be doing some amount of work every day â" even if itâs writing just one sentence for your English essay. To do this, firstly, you need to take your assignments and projects, including required readings, and break them down into manageable chunks. Your child needs guidance from you, but understand that guidance does not mean doing his spelling homework for him. When you cross the line into over-functioning, you are taking on your childâs work and putting his responsibilities on your shoulders. Iâm 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 oâclock and midnight, when she finally gets to bed. Yep, the leader who canât even string together a successful week of quiet time with God. She has told me she feels that the many hours of homework in middle school have prepared her well. âThere is no way they can give me more homework,â she reasons. In Southern California in the late â70s, it was totally plausible that an eighth grader would have no homework at all. 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. If youâre also a multitasker, Iâd highly recommend this strategy and avoid piling up information trying to do everything at once. Being able to know how much time a homework will require is the key to effective planning and doing it faster and better. Hi, I am an AI-powered Personal Nerd at NerdifyHereâs how I do my homework faster and better with a Personal Nerd.
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