“Sir, please can you give me less homework? I’ve started school and I have got so much this year!”
As a tutor, this is something you tend to hear nearly every lesson at the start of the academic year as students try to dodge their way out of more work. Often, they may have a point and so I would reduce their workload but usually they are simply seeking more Play Station time. It still makes me laugh when a seven-year old complains of homework. They do have it slightly harder though as I only began receiving homework when I was 12. I’m mot sure whether that is just how it was back then (a measly seven years ago) or whether my primary school was actually as cool as I always thought it was.
There is one kid I know who definitely isn’t taking the new academic year well. My little brother has just starter his secondary school academy and has been struggling to stay afloat amongst the pile of rules, regulations and textbooks. Poor kid, parenting skills shall be required to deliver much needed pep talks over the coming weeks.
Until Next Time
A Worried Student
A WORRIED STUDENT 
AWW ❤ these kids. I can relate to them (which isn't all that great considering I've got GCSEs on the horizon XD )
There's one of my classes at school where we have a little grumble/plead over homework – but seriously ah there's just so much it's unreal. And tests too!
….homework when you were TWELVE?!
12!!!! That's so cool!
Oh my …. I got it ages before that XD
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Haha yes I think you have more of a case than them. We would do that in maths!
Poor you! I was just enjoying Primary School you see 😛
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….I must say, I grumble at maths sometimes too. IT’S OKAY! Our most recent homework was positively evil….
From my extra maths (and I did English too), I received homework when I was 5 XD
School…now I can’t remember that. AH IM SO OLD
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Imaginative excuses are the best; dead badgers on the line at Cockfosters; an outbreak of ebola in the cupboard where you keep your school bag; dropped books while being chased by zombies, all are perfectly acceptable…try and see 🙂
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Haha! Those certainly are good ones!
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Ooh, homework! I actually got homework since primary school. (Mostly essays and math exercises. I do wish they could have waited until I was 12, though.)
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The kids today can and WILL come up with a TON of excuses, and, you need to Dog Ate My Disk” by Caroline Foster Segal, she has an ASSORTMENT, a classification of endless excuses that the students come up with, for NOT turning in their work on time.
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Sorry, the words seemed to have gotten lost when i typed my last message, the name of the essay was “The Dog Ate my Disk”…
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Haha yup they will! I’ll check it out 🙂
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Hi 🙂 I would like to nominate you for the Liebster Award. I enjoy reading your blog. Here’s the link: http://dreamsbrightascitylights.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/liebster-award/
Thanks and best wishes!
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Thank you! 😀 I really need to get started on these award posts!
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Your welcome 🙂
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I had a writing tutor for about a year when I was a kid. She was pretty cool. She gave me an awesome journal thing with little writing/creativity activities for me to do (though I can’t remember whether or not she assigned me to do them for homework or not) and she read “Sounder” with me and taught me how to use note cards (a skill I have long since forgotten at this point). She also taught me a fun little game called Shut the Box. I can’t remember the rules to save my life, but I do recall that it had nothing to do with writing whatsoever. It was a lot of fun, and I probably would have kept seeing her if we hadn’t moved back to Canada.
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Wow that sounds beautiful 😀 But aah Canada sounds more so 😉
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Yeah, it’s pretty great here. I love the mountains and the big parks. The only downside, at least here on the West coast, is all the rain. Still, it makes everything green.
I really enjoyed England when I was over there as well. I always loved seeing old architecture, for some reason.
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I love the sound of that 😀
Ahah you would love the area around my university then, I shall post pictures of the library soon!
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Awesome! I look forward to seeing them 😀
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