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I saw, posted in poltiics chat
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
you should talk to deaddog about it
Last time I talked to deaddog he did not even know about guts and his 4 brothers
Friday, September 19, 2025
Am I crazy, when did homework become optional
What would be the point of that for K-6
I had assignments I had to hand in always, but homework was seperate
homework was a list of questions you were told to do, and I never did them
math wise anyways
I don't think I had homeowork in any other subject
Even in university I did not do practice problems beyond things that were actually assigned for grades, so I realize I just don't like the concept of homework
its good for people who need to learn that way, I don't
We'd have problem sets in math (out of the textbook) that were optional
But homework was 100% mandatory
Maybe occasionally it would be ungraded, but if you didn't do it they'd find a way to fuck you
Needless to say
I almost never did my homework
Elementary school is the only one I actually remember having homework for
they'd give out work sheets
I guess my problem is I do not consider assignments to be the same thing as homework, homework kind of implies optional to me
or not graded at least
I use the terms differently
I understand what it is called and why it is called that
I just have never used the term homework when reffering to a graded thing I am assigned
homework feels more like busy work
see, polu gets it
I agree that language wise, they literally are
but the use case of how I use them is different
If something was optional or just recommended, it wouldn't be called homework
Was never*
Kindergarten through college for me
Yeah, same leg
Some classes would post optional homework "do these problems from the textbook"
Which I would of course never do
Yeah thats fair. I do not learn that way so I don't
We had lots of optional stuff, just interesting it was never called homework
My philosophy is "If I cannot do this by reviewing the theory, I do not understand it enough anyways" So I never do practice problems (or really review particular problems)
I haven't since I did quantum theory like 4ish years ago
but I have done stuff with them
Yeah, that makes sense
I didn't do any group theory stuff, but usually that is the stuff swept under the rug that you take for granted learning it for the first time