Aspies For Freedom

*Living in Norway*

Being commented by my laziness have often been quite painfull. I do feel that I should do more homework, but there is nothing that motivates me. Something that really exterminate my work-morale is that fellow classmates share their work, write from each other's homework and call it their own. It really pisses me off as I don't have that possiblity, I have no friends.

I continue to get low grades because I don't hand-in homework. Even if I know more of the subject than my fellow classmates, and will remember it long after they have forgotten it. The tests is ofcourse my domain, but people do cheat at the tests, using sel-phones phoning eachother at the tests and write keywords at their hand. I think this is really unfair.

I never let having no friends stop me from copying somebodys work if I had to. If you just ask them anyway most people are nice enough to let you copy from them.

Homework is crap anyway. You go to school to do work you shouldn't have to do it at home aswell.

Sounds to me that there wouldn't be any point of some homework at all then. I really just don't want to ask about copying people's homework, I have the impression of that it is rude if you don't know the one you are asking. I get bad "order grade?" for not copying other's work, which I think isn't educational at all and doesn't learn people to work.

No, it doesn't. Some kids get their parents to do their homework for them. I think cell phones should be banned in exams - most schools in Australia ban having them turned on during class and certainly during exams.

I also agree with Bob that there shouldn't be any real need for homework as the work should have been done at school.

I AGREE!!!!

Homework is what causes failing grades here at Hals. There's too much of it, so it's too much to all complete. Most students have noticed a huge jump in the amount of homework between this year and last year. I haven't because I haven't been here before.

When I was in middle school kids used to borrow my notebooks, and it got to the point where all the class had the same answers as me. I thought it was completely unfair, but I didn't know how to say "no", because I thought that everyone would hate me... and when I tried to say "no", they usually insisted until I gived up. Now I just say "do it yourself", or something like that. I don't understand how they can handle that, I cheated once and it doesn't feel good.

Plus, people in my class usually talk to me and realize I exist when they want my homeowrk.

I agree! However, it's just a downside of school and it's not likely to be got rid of, so I suppose we just have to put up with it.

It's really unfair people can get away with using phones in tests, in the UK the rules about phones in exams are so uber strict that you can be automatically disqualified from an exam if your phone goes of, even if it's in your bag on the other side of the room.

Anyway, maybe you should tell the teacher about the cheating, unless it would be really obvious it was you who told. If you know the material, you deserve the better grades.

When I was doing my exams, you weren't even allowed to take in bottled water if it had a label on it, just incase you had written something on it. The rules are very strict in the UK.

The homework situation got better in college because nobody did it, so the teachers stopped giving it apart from just finishing off classwork (which, I usually did anyway).

On my school at least we get users for the computers, once somone gained by password for my user and I got files were there were questions and answers to school tests. I wanted to show it my teacher but she always ignored me.

It seems to me that the school "system" is actually handled quite incorrectly by many connected people, including teachers. My older sister suggested that maybe the teacher had put the answers in my user. She had gone to the same school before and it would explain why my teacher had ignored me. In art lesson I heard a conversation with a fellow classmate and the very same teacher saying:

-You know, it isnt necessary that you get a such a bad grade just because you can't make good sculptures.

This was classmate that had american parents (which means he has a rich familiy) and was always getting good grades, speculated to be connected with his parents also by other classmates.

You are able to complaint about you notes, those who especially do this is those who scream alot (there are some in my age yes), and is always telling nasty things about the teacher if they get bad grades

You might call them brat girls who always get what they want. I've noticed that they never really remember anything from the things we learn at school, or at least too little to answer questions and have opinions about it.

At primary school we got maybe 15 minutes of homework once a week. Usually just finishing projects or doing math/spelling lessons. When I got to High School in year 8 they expect u to do 1 hour every day, year 9 its 2 hours, year 10 its 3. Nobody really worried to much about years 8-10 homework though, u could get satisfactory result without doing much homework & the teachers didnt care if u got higher or not as long as u passed & it looked like they were doin their job. In year 11 they expected u to do 4 hours a day & in year 12 they expected u to do 6. Thats outragous if u ask me. They had talks about getting rid of homework at our school, but they said if they did stop giving it school would have to start an hour earlier & finish 3 hours later to make up for it so everybody was against that idea, even the teachers they didnt wanna have to spend another 4 hours of their live with these bratty kids... never happen which was probably a good thing in the long run...

This is interesting as my younger daughter is now in Grade 11. I asked her what she thought about the idea of having to do 4 hours homework this year. She said it was ludicrous! She has quite a few assignments to do and I suppose when you average out all the work she is doing on them, it would work out to at least 2 hours per day.

However, she tends to have fits of enthusiasm where she does a lot and other spells when she doesn't feel up to doing much. I was very much the same when I was her age and was also astounded in grade 8 when a grade 11 girl I knew said she did 4 hours homework a night. I thought she must have been a teacher's pet or something similar.

There is one thing I feel sad about. Back when I was in high school, there was much concern about how lugging around heavy school cases would damage our backs. 25 years or so later, the same problem is still around. I don't know how you can get around the need for carrying books around as lockers are too easily broken into and they don't have any other place to store the books when they aren't needed.

BTW, that is my daughter in the photo but she was only about 5 at the time.

Yeah the book issue is still around.. I finished High School 2 years ago but I took a few years off after year 11. Which in the end turned out to be a massivly good thing for me at least. All the people that had been tormenting me for 3 years (some for 4) were long gone by that point & I seemed to get a much better understanding about the way things work socially in the NT world so it was like a fresh start. But man the amount of books they expect u to have. All the girls have those shoulder bags now that only go over 1 shoulder I'll hate to see them in 25 years they'll be walking with 1 of their shoulders 20cm lower then the other. It must have been awefully heavy. I was lucky in year 12 I only had to do 2 subjects cos I went to TAFE for a year & it seems if u do that u dont need to do as much stuff to get ur certificate. But in year 11 my back always ached like hell after school cos there was nothin in my bag but books.

We also had to carry around all these heavy folders. It was a right pain sometimes. I found the worst year for having to cart things around was in Grade 8 as we had the most subjects in that year.