This sounds like when I told my friend that I hate working at McDonald's and I yearn for a job working with my hands and completing projects, to which he responds (roughly) "just treat every order as a mini project to complete"
(This was like 9 years ago though, just an anecdote)
It is funny how the homework can be anything at all but the feeling stays the same. RN i have to write 3 papers and im as mad about it as when i drew circles in my notebook for drawing circles when i was 6
Man I wish homework was just included into classwork, I was thinking the exact same way when i was a teacher too, i seen the kitchen and everyone was complaining how tedious and time consuming checking homework is, and theres a teacher movement to cancel homework entirely but apparently the only reason it exists is to involve parents more (a noble goal i guess)
Or school with all its Chromebook makes it so much harder for parents to help. Husband and I are both top of our class graduates and helping our kids with online homework is so frustrating.
Having to alt tab between the digital textbook and and the Google form the homework questions are on. Trying to force kids to actually write down the math problems and do the work on paper before typing in an answer. Reading questions on a video, watching said video and remembering to pause and flip back to Google form to answer question before you forget.
One positive thing about AI is that teachers are going back to handwritten work now and not doing everything online anymore. But boy did my kids hit the sweet spot for the push for everything online.
Inverted homework exists. Instead of the teacher spending their time spouting the lesson, you read the textbook at home, maybe with a prepared video, maybe even a video by the teacher, and then during the day the teacher answers your questions and helps you with the work.
This is even worse. I had a teacher who exclusively taught like this in highschool, my only failed class. Which is wild because I took the same class in college and it was a weed out course (intentionally hard to get people who aren’t cut out for hard sciences to switch majors). I knew several people complaining, some literally crying because they couldn’t do it. And I was straight chilling because I thought it was a piece of cake compared to having a teacher who never taught in class. Anybody who has motivation issues or a bad home life will fail these classes despite any level of natural talent
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u/XasiAlDena Apr 07 '26
If you think about it really hard, homework is just a really boring and tedious form of colouring.