Well, let’s continue this school-based blog series with a page of me complaining about homework. Now, this may come as a shock to you, or it may not. Either way, you should know, there are many different types of homework. There’s good; there’s bad; there’s confusing. Lucky for you, you get a detailed list of all of them right here.
Let’s start off with PIE Homework, as in Easy-As-Pie. Now, in my experience, this homework is English homework. This is different for everyone, but generally, for me, English is the easiest. PIE Homework is time-consuming, yet you can do it while watching Netflix, or listening to music. PIE Homework is the homework that you do first. You know that you can get it done, and you don’t have to stress about it. PIE Homework gives you the best feeling in the world, understanding. It’s a good day in student-life when you understand an assignment and can avoid that mental breakdown that has been building for a week.
The next type of homework is Not Well-Explained Homework, the NWE homework. Now, I was going to try to find a fun little name for this type of homework, but per the fact that this type of homework makes me overwhelmingly angry, I can’t think about it for too long. NWE homework is homework that often gets assigned in many classes. Students often respond to this type of homework in three ways. The first, and my own personal response, is to spend hours on it. They do all of their research, find all they can about the topic, anything to help them get an ounce of understanding about what they have to turn in the next day. After an hour and a half, the situation can get pretty ugly. The second is to do the assignment out of spite. The general thought process is “If he thinks he can just get away with giving us homework and not explaining it, he deserves to get crappy, half-done answers.” At this point in time, you may be wondering, just go ask that teacher a question about it. Now the only answer I can give to that is when? There is so much that is expected of students that it’s hard to find time to do anything. The final way students respond is to flat out not do it. I am proud to say that I have never done this. However, I can’t even explain the temptation that this provides every student. For every NWE assignment, there is a student that considers taking a zero for mental health reasons.
As you’ve probably guessed, I have quite a bit more to say about the different types of homework. Maybe I will make a part two. Who knows? But for now, I will leave it at the fact that all students, or at least all students middle school age and older, know that there are different types of homework assignments. Stay tuned for next time when you get the second half of the exclusive Types of Homework list.
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