Kids - School Grades
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Worked on homework during other classes. We had 6 periods but my junior year I only took 5 and senior year 4 (the minimum to play sports). So I had some free hours during the normal school day too.
Edit: I guess I lied. The weekend I had the fake baby for parenting class was an exception. Had to haul that thing on a bus to Atlantic for a basketball game. 3 of us were feeding our fake babies 20 minutes before tip until the few quiet hours we got came into play.
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CycloneErik
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Just for fun here, I'll include my favorite story from her. It was kind of a capstone experience for me.
She was also in my other course. She had gone home to be with family, which made a lot of sense. She Zoomed into the class, which wasn't abnormal for 2021. She almost certainly just left her device until the end of class,because she never knew what happened in a class she Zoomed into.
The capper, though: I knew most of what she would say whenever she bothered. I sent her a detailed email to address each objection ahead of time with detailed facts. She confronted me over Zoom at the end of class (which cost me my last chance to chat with some neat students afterwards---still bitter).
I asked her if she'd checked her email. She replied that she didn't have Internet.
I casually spelled out what was in there. That eventually led to her trip up the chain of command or whatever we're calling it.
But over Zoom, she let me know that she didn't have the Internet. She will never be forgotten.
That makes sense but is absolutely wild to me. Outside of playoffs I think the farthest drive was maybe 30mins in traffic. Totally new perspective now and that is brutal if you’re trying to play sports.
Iowa is a very rural state so it makes sense that others don’t have some of the lengthy bus rides. Even in Iowa, the Des Moines Metro League isn’t going to deal with these things much. I think they used to have a few outliers but not anymore.
Playing sports in small town Iowa is definitely an experience. Even in the bigger schools you usually have some 2+ hour trip sprinkled in.
You have seen enough of the result of certain parenting practices, so that must be pretty helpful in raising your daughter. One of my brothers and his wife were both teachers and had a terrible time naming their kids because they had so many horror story students between the two of them that eliminated a lot of names.
Yeah, don’t have that often…but definitely had this type of dream about a month ago. Weird scenario where I was halfway through the semester and was aware I hadn’t made it to an English class. No clue why I would have that dream at this point…
Yep, 1-2 hours each way was the norm for us and has surely gotten worse with consolidation. In many cases this is year-round and 3-4 sport athletes are common (football, basketball, track, and baseball) because they need all hands on deck to fill out a team. A weeknight track meet with 2-4 hours of bus time doesn't leave much time for anything else.
CycloneErik
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This was a different school. ISU doesn't let it get there.
Well, unless it involves athletes. Then things change behind the scenes, just like they do everywhere else.
Not an option at my kids school. They don't allow study halls. You have 15 minutes either before or after lunch of free time and that's it.
It wasn't study halls, just free periods. I would have had enough credits to graduate after my junior year without taking the 1 period off each trimester. I bet their school has it. It wasn't advertised, my parents had to sign something to approve it both years.
Yeah, it sounds like he also did other class homework during classes. Our school you would be in trouble for not paying attention. I don’t quite understand how that works, like you don’t actually listen to the teacher in the class you were in? Or the homework is so easy you don’t have to think about it while listening to the teacher? I don’t think you could play a trumpet and simultaneously compute rate of change problems. Or balance a chemical equation while conversing in Spanish IV.
They have 9 periods and have to have 8 classes (9th is 1/2 lunch and half free time). Their senior year they can have open campus for one period but not the last period. My senior year we could have open campus whenever but had to have 5 classes of the 8. I transferred schools my senior year and had enough credits to graduate but needed 1 more english class and government.
Let's put it this way. 1 class has a quick lecture then gives 30 minutes to work on something. Knock it out in 15 and spend the next 15 on other homework. I'm not the smartest person in the world but have always worked fast. I don't have enough fingers to count how many times I was the 1st done with an exam in college but I also only had a 3.15 at ISU.
Administration said (when my oldest was a junior I believe - he graduated in 19) that students were using the study halls like they should so they got rid of them. I went to a school board meeting and they accidentily let it slip that some teachers didn't have a full load so to justify them they got rid of study halls. My oldest was poor at Spanish so he was happy to be done, but the only class that coincided with his schedule was Spanish 3 so he got his worse grade (C-) that dropped him down a couple class ranks and made him ineligible for a few scholarships due to that, THAT WAS WONDERFUL.
Granted I’m in my mid 30’s now but this is not the situation at all in my school or amounts people I talked to in college. As long as you were getting that A and weren’t causing a distraction most teachers didn’t care. Usually at the beginning of the year I would catch some grief but once I showed that doing outside work didn’t affect my grade or grasp of the knowledge they let it go.
I wasn’t doing this for stuff like AP calf or physics, but for AP bio, history, psyc, etc those were all easy classes to work on other subjects. Also I found that most of my ap classes gave out less homework then others, a couple tried to replicate the college model and only did exams.
That blows. My last trimester of high school I had Calc, English Comp, Lifting and PE. So 2 college courses and 2 PE's. There weren't any other classes avaliable that would have provided any value to me at that point.