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I always had lots of homework and every subject was the most important one, in the opiniin of the teacher. No surprise I was copying homework at school from oth

I always had lots of homework and every subject was the most important one, in the opiniin of the teacher. No surprise I was copying homework at school from other children because I forgot or didn’t have energy to do it. Hope my kids will have time to play and discover what is really interesting to them in contrary to me

0xdeadb00f 8y ago
> every subject was the most important one, in the opiniin of the teacher. This is the biggest problem IMO. Teachers give kids an enormous amount of homework not realising (or realising, but not caring) that the kids have the same amount, if not more homework to do in all their other subjects. I recall HS physical education teachers were the worst offenders of thinking their class was the most important. In my HS we had one day a week practical (playing sport) and one day a week theory. In the practical lesson if you forgot your sports uniform (separate to normal, "formal" uniform) they would give you an instant lunchtime detention, making you to write lines, and still make you play sport. In theory class they acted as if your life depended on knowledge of the food groups for example. I'm not saying that what they taught us wasn't important, in fact the classes on STIs were quite important, but their attitude was unwarranted. And this is every single teacher: every single one had this attitude. I realise I'm going on a tangent but to top it all off sex education was an absolute joke. They separated us into gender and had a 30 minute presentation/talk. Completely pointless and it barely consisted of "you have a penis, you get erections" - they told us this at 14 years of age, so of course we knew that much already. No mention of the opposite sex, or actual intercourse. In contrast the girls got to learn about the male and female genitalia, I was told by one of my girl friends (read: friend that is a girl).

0xdeadb00f 8y ago

> every subject was the most important one, in the opiniin of the teacher. This is the biggest problem IMO. Teachers give kids an enormous amount of homework not realising (or realising, but not caring) that the kids have the same amount, if not more homework to do in all their other subjects. I recall HS physical education teachers were the worst offenders of thinking their class was the most important. In my HS we had one day a week practical (playing sport) and one day a week theory. In the practical lesson if you forgot your sports uniform (separate to normal, "formal" uniform) they would give you an instant lunchtime detention, making you to write lines, and still make you play sport. In theory class they acted as if your life depended on knowledge of the food groups for example. I'm not saying that what they taught us wasn't important, in fact the classes on STIs were quite important, but their attitude was unwarranted. And this is every single teacher: every single one had this attitude. I realise I'm going on a tangent but to top it all off sex education was an absolute joke. They separated us into gender and had a 30 minute presentation/talk. Completely pointless and it barely consisted of "you have a penis, you get erections" - they told us this at 14 years of age, so of course we knew that much already. No mention of the opposite sex, or actual intercourse. In contrast the girls got to learn about the male and female genitalia, I was told by one of my girl friends (read: friend that is a girl).