How much homework did you have when you was/are a freshman

[BNSF5767]

I'm just asking to compare my school Savannah High School in Savannah, MO to your guys/gals' schools. Me personally, it depends most of the stuff considered homework is done during class time (our hours are 50 mins long) so i don't have that much usually :p But i do have daily math assigments which thanks to technology i don't have to bring home a heavy book, all i have to do is put in a dvd into my computer and do hw! Sweet! I do hate math though science being my strongest subject :o Please reply

[xgsft]

I really don't know...considering I never did it anyway. :D

If I'm guestimating correctly, it was around 1-2 hours worth depending on the day.

[kilchisriver]

Several hours per day. And no computers, not even hand-held calculators. A good slide rule was what saved the day. That applies to both high school and college. Also no back packs - we used brief cases. Mike :D And no - we did not take horse and buggies!!!

[jhilden2]

As freshmeat in highschool, I did 0 and did not get much better as I progressed through the latter classes.

If I had a dime for evertime a teacher or counseler told me "You're smart but need to apply youself" I would be a billionare.

This is why I joined the Marines out of school. I needed to grow up and get a healthy dose of disciplin. I knew that my freshman year at college would be worse then my zero effort highschool experience- with the being away from home, beer,and fast women, I did not have chance.

After 9 years in the Marines, I went to college and my freshmen year was very busy, I went for civil engineering so all five years were intense. Spent many late nights and weekends performing Laplace transforms, matrix operations, analyzing indeterminate structures, soil mechanics, hydraulics, and if I had time, english and other liberal studies. For one of my free electives, I took the history of Rock N roll

[muskokaandtahoe]

When I was in High School, many years ago, I just didn't bother much, relying more on tests and quizes. Grades showed it too. OTOH, my daughter, a Junior, has ~4 hours of homework / night, on top of whatever she's been able to do in school. She's taking AP Bio, AP US History, Japanese III, Literature of Mythology, and something called Math Analysis, which is a whole lot of graphing. She has a 3.5 GPA and as best as I can tell, that GPA puts her in the lower half of her class (it's a very competative school).

[rdamurphy]

Math Analysis = what we used to call "Statistics." Which is a whole lot of graphing!

Impressive set of classes, what are her plans?

Robert

[PatPut99]

When I was in High School, many years ago, I just didn't bother much, relying more on tests and quizes. Grades showed it too. OTOH, my daughter, a Junior, has ~4 hours of homework / night, on top of whatever she's been able to do in school. She's taking AP Bio, AP US History, Japanese III, Literature of Mythology, and something called Math Analysis, which is a whole lot of graphing. She has a 3.5 GPA and as best as I can tell, that GPA puts her in the lower half of her class (it's a very competative school).
Very competitive is an understatement.

Anyway, I'm a freshmen too. All advanced classes plus varsity soccer. Today is my first day of school. I'll let you know how it goes.

[rdamurphy]

I would have never guessed, from reading your posts, that you weren't an adult. Your language skills, combined with your clear sentences and proper spelling, present a very good image, very impressive.

Some of your peers should take note, misspellings, poor grammar, and slang only make you appear uneducated.

Good job, Patrick.

Robert

[jtr1962]

I think I had 4 to 7 hours most nights in high school and still had to catch up on weekends doing things like term papers. Then again, it was Bronx High School of Science. I managed to get perhaps an hour of that work done on the train to/from school. Needless to say, sleep deprivation was a regular thing.

[pmcn]

1 to 2 hours a day if I hurried which I usually did. As mentioned before, no computers etc., just pencil and paper. Like most people your age, I was not interested in details (which I should have been) and the hasty job with home work was reflected in my test scores. Now I get to go through it with my son (a junior) who does the same thing. As my father says, "pays backs are a b****."

If feel I should also mention that as I look back on my life, those four years of High School were some of the best years (probably because they were the most care free) of my life. Enjoy.

Paul

[plainsman]

As a freshman, maybe about 1.5-2 hours a night except for those 20 page papers you had to write occasionally. I didn't have to study a lot, I was lucky, it was usually pretty easy for me. I actually taught the physics class my senior year while the "teacher" "audited" in the back. Surprisingly, that worked pretty well, in that you really had to learn a topic in depth to be able to teach and discuss it in class. I got my slide rule between my junior and senior year. I still had to do chemistry with pencil and paper.:( If I had a school like Joe attended, I would have had to work much, much harder.

[bnsf1959]

BNSF5767,

You think you got it so bad? Try going back 20-30 years back when we didn't even have cable TV, Video games, computers or internet. We all learned the hard way. We went to "school of hard knocks." I had homework where I had to spent 1 to 2 hours each night and sometimes more when we had end of semester exams.

[muskokaandtahoe]

Very competitive is an understatement.

Yeah, well the GPA isn't half of it... across the the 4 years of high school, roughly 1/3 of all classes taken by students in this public high school are AP classes. That works out to between 6 and 8 AP classes per student. Depending on what's taken and where you go, that can knock off 1 year of college.

[Andy J]

Times has changed dramaticaly...

When I was in high school (heck my whole school experience) was that I viewed daily homework as total BS. I did all the projects, I passed all the tests, I did all the "School assignments" but the "extra practice at home" was never turned in. If I could not get it done in study hall, or during class study time, it just did NOT get done. And my grades suffered.

I learned how to pass classes with C's and D's, just enough to get by.. I remember distinctly, my Junior year in high school, in American History, I was able to ace, all the tests, and quizzes, and NEVER handed in the first scrap on homework. My teacher, told me, at the end of the year, that he had intended to fail me over the homework issue, but could not bring himself to do it because, taking the homework issue aside, I had one of the best test and quiz grade averages in the class. So he gave me a "C" .

My grand plan to coast thru school did backfire, I found myself in summer school, two summers. chewing up my beloved free time.

When I was a senior, my home life had changed dramatically, I had found myself orphaned, and with no one to "prod me" anymore, I "buckled myself" down and worked very hard at my school work, but I had additional problems now, and was working a full time job at night. (5PM to 3AM Mon thru Thursday, had to keep the power, and food on the table now)

I actually did my homework on my dinner break at work, determined to graduate with my class, But the loss of sleep eventually did me in, I dropped out in December of my Senior year.

Yea, I know the long term...But, the problem I had was, that the long term did not matter, if I starved and froze to death in the short term.

The amounts of homework, for the most part where not that bad, usually a half hour at night, with the exception of the occasionally term paper or something. The key is not to fall behind, that doubles your work. This was the early 1990's

Now, MY kids....THEY, have homework, and lots of it.. :eek:

Even when they was in Kindergarten, they had assignments, handed out on Monday, that where due in on Friday. My son, that is in the 3rd grade, has NIGHTLY homework, sometimes it is math, sometimes it is reading, sometimes it is both.

My daughter, who is in the 6th grade, seems to be having it easier, than when she was in 4th or 5th, so far. It used to take her (an A and B student, taking advanced classes, with NO study hall) an hour, nightly to do her homework :eek:

It sort of set me off, (the old kid in me) that they have so much homework, I have hard enogh time getting them to go outside and run and play "like KIDS" as it is. And we parents, must sign every night, a log book, that has notes from the teacher, and assignments on it.

The even gave homework to be done over the SUMMER BREAK..

[pmcn]

To all the old timer in here and the young ones to, I've had this one for awhile now and though this would be a good time to share it:

"TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outsid e and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to th em!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagi ne that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!"

While I'm not saying things were utopic, they were different back then. And please I in no way indorse the eating of worms or lead pait. :D

Paul

[bnsf1959]

WOW! You said a mouthful and it's the truth! :D
One other thing you might have forgotten about, common sense. We had them back then and it is lost these days. :(

[bktrains]

Before switching to homeschooling, back in Junior high, if we had homework I only had like anywhere from 30 minutes to an hours worth. And I had several AP classes every semester too! Homework depends on how fast you also work in class, I always tried to get as much as I could get done in class as I could so I wouldn't get any homework, and I passed all my tests and everything, I made A's & B's all my life, still making them. And all through school, I'd always listen to the teacher complain to around half the classroom who didn't turn in homework, or turned it in late. Those kids always made C's, D's, and sadly a lot of the time F's. They were smart, but they were just lazy and never wanted to do any of the work. Which even in the AP classes wasn't hard, depending on how far behind you wanted to get. I remember several kids that got held back every other year because of this.

Also just within the last 4 years they did away with our study hall, they did away with summer school. So if you failed this school year, you had the second semester to go after school 4 hours a day to catch up your grades and if you couldn't do that, you didn't pass and they held you back. And you used to be able to miss about 15 days of school in a whole 9 months of school, they cut that back to like 8 without you failing. If you missed like 10 or 12 days you would fail the grade and not be able to remake anything up, it was no excuses you just fail. You would have to redo the whole year over again.

[kilchisriver]

Paul - AND.....We Had Fun, actually enjoyed life! - Mike:)

[BurritoFarmer]

To all the old timer in here and the young ones to, I've had this one for awhile now and though this would be a good time to share it:

"TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outsid e and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to th em!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagi ne that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!"

While I'm not saying things were utopic, they were different back then. And please I in no way indorse the eating of worms or lead pait. :D

Paul

Sounds like 'A Different World' by Bucky Covington!

[Jim Prower]

So, this is another thread dedicated to old people making young people feel inferior, eh?

I'll tell you what...I don't remember my homework in my freshman year...because I'm doing so much now, approaching my senior year in college!!! I honestly think the curriculum could use an upgrade, though, make a bit of a steeper slope, and this coming from someone with a learning disability. Granted, the subjects are still harder in high school than they were back then, especially in mathematics, (considering that new theorems have been produced since then) but I've learned more about creative writing from participating in Internet Roleplays and writing my own fanfiction (stories about an existing canon) than in school.

[jac_murphy]

Today was my second day as a freshman, I'll have to wait a bit to let you know how it goes as well...

EDIT: whoops, I thought the threadstarter was talking about university, not high school. My bad. :)

-Jacques

[PatPut99]

I would have never guessed, from reading your posts, that you weren't an adult. Your language skills, combined with your clear sentences and proper spelling, present a very good image, very impressive.

Some of your peers should take note, misspellings, poor grammar, and slang only make you appear uneducated.

Good job, Patrick.

Robert
Thank you Robert. I get that quite a bit. I also get told I look 17-18 quite a bit as well. I am an only child, and have been with mostly adults all of my growing up, so it helps a bit.

Anyway, I survived, wasn't to bad. Would be nice to have a study hall or two, but what are you going to do. We have a new math teacher who seems a bit grumpy. Other than that it should be a good year. Getting my first college credit this year, too. My global class is a college course. Seems like it will be pretty interesting.

[therock]

Last year it was about 40 minutes... then there was Pre-AP world geography, that chewed up a good hour on its own. :eek:

[rpicardi1]

No Internet back in the 60s to Google an answer or for the teacher to check that you cheated by copying the Google answer.

[saintjimmy14]

I've been a freshman for about 3 weeks now (School started here in Visalia, CA on August 14, ends June 3rd) and my high school is GREAT!!!! I would have to say that I get about 45 mins. to 2 hours worth a night, depending on how much I want to do...:rolleyes: It's not really THAT bad. I didn't want the honors english, which I had in middle school both years, so I just "got lazy" and aimed for B's and C's, and guess what? No honors!!! :D

But the cool thing is that in middle school, if you didn't do homework, the teachers would yell at you or give you a lecture on how important it was. In high school, if you don't do homework, the teachers don't even give a sheet:eek:!!!! If it's done, it's done. If it's not, who cares?!?!?! My Algebra teacher just gives us practice from bell to bell (a whole 56 minutes!!!!) then gives us a page of 10-25 problems on our way out the door, and we can bring it back the next day, done or not!!!! (or don't even bring it back at all!!!!!:D)

So my high school's name is Redwood High School, the first and best in town in sports AND academics by a margin of over 15%, with 4 total high schools in town!!!!!!!! It ROCKS!!!!!!!! ;):D:p:cool:

[rdamurphy]

Having graduated from High School in 1980, in the middle of the OBE era, there was very little homework. Most of it could be finished while you were sitting in your next class not paying attention.

Having graduated from the University in 2007, I can tell you that I had 6 to 8 hours of homework a WEEK just to keep up, more if I wanted to get a better grade. (Graduated with a 3.61 GPA...). I did homework on my laptop (something we didn't have in 1980!) while my wife was in labor with our second child.

Robert

[PatPut99]

I've been a freshman for about 3 weeks now (School started here in Visalia, CA on August 14, ends June 3rd) and my high school is GREAT!!!! I would have to say that I get about 45 mins. to 2 hours worth a night, depending on how much I want to do...:rolleyes: It's not really THAT bad. I didn't want the honors english, which I had in middle school both years, so I just "got lazy" and aimed for B's and C's, and guess what? No honors!!! :D

But the cool thing is that in middle school, if you didn't do homework, the teachers would yell at you or give you a lecture on how important it was. In high school, if you don't do homework, the teachers don't even give a sheet:eek:!!!! If it's done, it's done. If it's not, who cares?!?!?! My Algebra teacher just gives us practice from bell to bell (a whole 56 minutes!!!!) then gives us a page of 10-25 problems on our way out the door, and we can bring it back the next day, done or not!!!! (or don't even bring it back at all!!!!!:D)

So my high school's name is Redwood High School, the first and best in town in sports AND academics by a margin of over 15%, with 4 total high schools in town!!!!!!!! It ROCKS!!!!!!!! ;):D:p:cool:
Just because your teachers aren't saying anything doesn't mean they aren't taking note of you not doing homework. Might not have any issues now, but come report card time have fun. And you can kiss those sports good bye if you continue not to do any homework.

[pmcn]

Sounds like 'A Different World' by Bucky Covington!

Don't know who wrote it, but like I said, I had it for a while and it just seemed like a good place and time to post it.

To Jim and all you "young ones" in here, I am not trying to bash you, I'm just pointing out how times have changed. Like I said, it was not a utopia, it was just a different world. I still shudder to think of the results of an accident while I was standing up in the front seat of the car and leaning on the dash so I could see the world go by. How many of you remember your father reaching over to "keep you from flying out of your seat" when slamming on the brakes. Unfortunatly, it does not work in a collision.

Then again, reading the threads about homework, the times have not changed very much at all it that regaurd.

Don't forget, we did not have the advantage of today's medical science and technology back then. To me, that is as big a reason not to want to live in similar times again. So, enjoy your youth. In 20-30 years, you'll look back on these days and marvel about how things have changed since you were "young".

Paul

[pmcn]

I've been a freshman for about 3 weeks now (School started here in Visalia, CA on August 14, ends June 3rd) and my high school is GREAT!!!! I would have to say that I get about 45 mins. to 2 hours worth a night, depending on how much I want to do...:rolleyes: It's not really THAT bad. I didn't want the honors english, which I had in middle school both years, so I just "got lazy" and aimed for B's and C's, and guess what? No honors!!! :D

But the cool thing is that in middle school, if you didn't do homework, the teachers would yell at you or give you a lecture on how important it was. In high school, if you don't do homework, the teachers don't even give a sheet:eek:!!!! If it's done, it's done. If it's not, who cares?!?!?! My Algebra teacher just gives us practice from bell to bell (a whole 56 minutes!!!!) then gives us a page of 10-25 problems on our way out the door, and we can bring it back the next day, done or not!!!! (or don't even bring it back at all!!!!!:D)

So my high school's name is Redwood High School, the first and best in town in sports AND academics by a margin of over 15%, with 4 total high schools in town!!!!!!!! It ROCKS!!!!!!!! ;):D:p:cool:

I get regular updates from my son's (he is a Junior) teachers e-mailed to me (yet another thing us older folks did not have to worry about, we just had to make it through the parent-teacher conference). Homework does count toward his grades. You'll find that the older you get, the more responsable you are expected to be. They may not say anything about uncompleted work, but it is being recorded.

Paul

[saintjimmy14]

Don't worry, guys...I do my homework!:cool: I have only FORGOT (I did do it, though!) twice, and that was because I was in a hurry. But I do my homework--an hours worth last night!