Stupid schools. Stupid Dinobots. Stupid stupid stupid.

[nightwind69]

Is it me, or do kids in school get more stupid projects to do now than they used to? I mean, this kid's in high school, and it seems like every week he has some stupid project to do for some class or another. I remember doing stuff like that when I was in like 6th grade, but high school? Nah. Weird

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[mommimus_prime]

My daughter has had her share of silly projects which have required trips to the art supply store or office supply store. Best use of a weird item: she turned a old fashioned TV refrigerator magnet into a fireplace to represent a hearth.

Most of her projects have required powerpoint presentations though.

Fortunately, she has to juggle her time so carefully that she gets all her projects done without waiting till the last minute. That would be disastrous for her.

Son's middle school project has been his science experiment. That didn't require too much effort on my part.

[nightwind69]

Yes, well this kid has nothing to clog up his schedule other than a half-hour guitar lesson a week, so...for him it's just a case of not wanting to do the work. At least he's not as bad as he was last year, when he'd just not do the projects at all and then wonder why he was failing his classes. *rolls eyes* Still, he totally procrastinates because he'd rather, say, play/write music than do stupid projects. Not that I don't sympathize; I always hated stupid school projects, too. Still, I get frustrated that it becomes work for Frosty or for me. That's just not fair.

I wish he just had to do Powerpoint stuff. His school seems to be more into artsy-craftsy types of projects. It's...really not his thing. Nor mine nor Frosty's, either. :p

[mommimus_prime]

Sometimes these projects just feel like busy work. I'd rather see them do writing projects.

I'm thankful that my son doesn't procrastinate yet. He gets down to his homework and does what he has to do without any fighting. Our biggest problem with him has been making up missed assignments. He can't seem to get it through his head that it's his responsibility to speak to the teacher and get the missed assignment and then to turn it in. When he cut his hand, he missed one day of school, missed a math assignment and a social studies assignment and lost his folder and neglected to mention any of this. It affected his grades in those two classes and he's been struggling to make it up ever since. Unfortunately, I don't think he learned a thing from it.

[nightwind69]

Yeah, Frosty's kids had trouble with that, too, the whole making up missed assignments and taking responsibility for finding out what the assignments were and such. I attribute it to them being "out of the loop." Frosty homeschooled them for a few years, taking them out of school when they were still in elementary, so it took them a bit to get in the swing. Well, actually the younger boy still isn't in the swing, mostly because he doesn't care, but at least older boy is getting with the program. Slowly. I expect he'll be fully with the program about a month before he graduates. :)

And yes, I believe the projects are stupid. Like, he had to put together a travel brochure about a foreign country, with pictures and such. In my day, back in the Dark Ages, we just wrote research papers. ;)

[mommimus_prime]

I wish I could use that excuse with Quinn but nope, he has issues about approaching people afraid he'll get into trouble. Sigh.

He did that travel brochure thing last year in the 6th grade. Emma had to do a poster about a Greek God or Goddess and then do an oral presentation about it. Granted she had to research it but I don't think she learned anything different about the one she chose because she did an artsy thing with it.