Down with homework! (Short Stuff).Stressed over that killer English 1. English - (Obsolete) The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favourite programming language is essay? Bleary-eyed blear·y-eyed also blear-eyed adj. 1. With eyes blurred or reddened, as from exhaustion or lack of sleep. 2. Dull of mind or perception. because you studied for science way past midnight? Well study this: Average hours spent on homework have tripled since 1980! So you aren't aren't Contraction of are not. See Usage Note at ain't. aren't are not aren't be alone--and some parents and teachers complain that kids don't have time for sports, other extra-curriculars, household responsibilities, family stuff or time to just be kids. At least one public school system is making amends AMENDS. A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a wrong committed. 1 Lilly's Reg. 81. 2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and by similar statutes in some of the United States, justices of the peace, upon being notified of an . High-school kids in Arlington, Va., get no more than three hours of work a night, and assignments must be done without adult help. Three hours, though--isn't that still extreme? Guess it's a start. How 'bout giving your teachers and parents a homework assignment of their own. Tell them to read The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning. And that you want a 5-page book report on it by Friday. Just kidding. |
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