Would somebody make the peoplemen in my family stop being craxy? KTHNXBYE!

This. I had enough knock-down-drag-outs about how Dad should just ignore all those Unsatisfactory effort marks -- if I was getting 100s on the tests, why should I expend any more energy than I had to?

Yes, exactly. I barely did my homework when it WAS graded; if it wasn't, there would have been no hope of me doing it.

*POOF* You're problem is taken care of, brenda.

ION, I am weird. I will check b.org and e-mail while my search pages are loading, but I won't go to the bathroom. I don't want to appear as a slacker, so I have to pee SO BADLY right now.

I know. I'm weird.

vw! Go for winky-tinks!

If there had been no grading at all, fugeddaboutit.

I'm a fan of pass/fail myself. I hate having to enforce rules I don't always agree with.

IO(parentingsucks)N, Bobby threw up all over the bus, the car pool mom's car, and then his bed. He's asleep now and I am back at work. He had chocolate milk and a juice at lunch. Too much sugar for him. Looks like no baseball practice tonight. He'll sleep until about 10 or so, then wake up starving.

I'm a fan of pass/fail myself.

I would've worked for a pass. No accounting at all, though? Hell, I still don't do boring stuff just because it's the right thing to do. I do it because it'll go on my Permanent Record.

hairpats, laura. sounds like a really rough day in the parenthood.

I can't think of anything boreing, repetative, or hateful ( which was my view of things like spelling and math homework) that I do now , that no one cares about. I can think of household chores that fall in that category, but I do them because if I don't I'm not happy with the state of things. and work - well they pay me to be bored somedays. ( It is so weird to have to ask for more work )

to do homework... I would have needed something more than detention as a negative- because I didn't do a hell of a lot afterschool but read - guess what I would have done in detention. So there would have had to have been some sort of dire consequences at home ( gass money comming out of my allowance for the extra car trips? ) plus some sort of real reward for doing ALL of my homework. Kinda like vw's ipod reward. some large dollar amount to spend at book store - or being allowed to stayup as late as I wanted every friday or saturday for the next quarter...those would have worked for me

I'm such a conformist. I did my homework because they told me to, and because I didn't want any grief about it. At least in school. At university, it was more precisely calculated.

In HS, however, we weren't maintaining a GPA. The homework counted to our grade at the end of the year, but universities only cared about our O and A level results.

I'm such a conformist. I did my homework because they told me to, and because I didn't want any grief about it. At least in school. At university, it was more precisely calculated.

Same here. Plus, it's not like it was terribly onerous.

When I was teaching high school, I counted homework towards the grade, because I thought it was good training for responsibility and meeting deadlines, and because some students can have comprehension of the subject but freeze on the tests. I assigned homework because I thought that a continuum of working on the subject was more beneficial to long-term retention than cramming for a test.