Student sues to end summer homework

The kid's lawsuit should be thrown out of court and the family should be charged for all money spent entertaining this insane waste of the court system to begin with. This is the key part of the article imo:

When I was a senior in high school, I chose to take AP English. The teacher wanted to cover a ton of books in one school year. Because of that, we were required to read all of the books (12 in total) over the summer. Did it suck? Yes. Did I take the school to court? Of course not. If you don't like the workload for an honors or AP class, you have two options: 1- Suck it up and do the work, or 2- Switch to a standard class. I applaud this school for maintaining academic standards. If you want a transcript full of Honors and AP marks, then you'd best be prepared for the extra work.

 

What an ass. Life's full of choices. If you can't have your "dream job" and take an honors course, you've got to choose one. I'd like to have a high paying job with one of the big accounting firms AND enjoy the copious amounts of free time I have now. Guess what? Ain't gonna happen. So I settle for a lower paying job.

 

Are you telling me that you've never taken a summer off and come back to school having forgotten mathematical formulas, etc.?

This isn't extra time necessary to teach a subject. This is work to separate the lazy students from the ones who truly want to be in honors and/or AP classes. This is to keep minds sharp so all is not lost. Where do you even get that needing extra time stuff?

This is a student who needs to be removed from honors and AP classes. I wish him luck getting letters of recommendation when it's time to apply for universities. I hope they all note his name.

Of course, I wonder if this lawsuit was even his idea. It was probably an idiot parent. Who in the world would have listened to this kid say, "I should sue!" and say, "That's a good idea!"

"These students are still children, yet they are subjected to increasing pressure to perform to ever-higher standards in numerous theaters,"

I don't believe this for an instant. If anyone is subjected to "increasing pressure to perform to ever-higher standards" it's teachers.

Incidentally... this whole comment about needing extra time to cover subjects has really made me angry. Do you have any idea what's in the learning standards? Do you realize that many teachers need to align and teach to state, federal, and local standards? You think we can fit all of this into our curricula?

I only hope the article is correct about this being an "honors" class. If it turns out that this is an AP class, then I'll be livid.

Ok... I'm editing this. I'm not done!

How about the fact that the TEACHER is taking time out of HIS summer to teach these kids? This is not atypical... and, no, summer school salaries are NOT worth it.

Do you know what the teachers who are truly trying to make a difference are doing over the summer? Do you think we all take a big, long vacation and then come home and garden all summer?

I spent the summer designing curricula for the upcoming school year.... for British lit, World lit, and creative writing. Check old threads in the Books forum. I even talked about it on BS.

I created lessons. I read up on things with which I was unfamiliar that I am teaching this year.

Hell, teachers should sue for having to do so much work at home!!!! But we do it because we're teachers... and we want to save the world from idiot children like this one.

 

I'm ready to sue to end having to do any lesson planning or literature review over the summer - as if a nine month salary corresponds to nine months of preparation work!

 

At first glance, I thought the title of this post was Student sues to end Summer Vacation.

I was this close to booking some plane tickets to Milwaukee to give this kid the smackdown.

 

Completely agree. I'm a senior in high school who is taking A.P. English. I knew before I even signed up for the class that I would have to read several books over the summer and analyze the novels. If the kid wasn't willing to put forth the effort (or didn't have time to, which is complete bs), he shouldn't have signed up for the class.

 

BINGO!

Seriously, this is the problem with block scheduling. It's a great scheduling system. It's a lot easier on the students. But when you have math in the fall of one year and math in the spring in the following year, that's one whole year that a student will be without math. Unless they have a toolkit to refer to...they're in trouble.

 

Agree. I had Spanish I in the fall of my sophomore and Spanish II in the spring of my junior year. That wasn't fun.

 

Wow.

What moronic parent would encourage his kid to file this lawsuit. What a jackass.

 

My first summer assignment ever was reading The Prince and answering a bunch of questions about it. I thought "Hey 70something pages? I can do that in one day."

I almost died and I wanted to cry the entire time. It was so depressing and tedious.

I've had summer hw in several classes every summer since then. It still sucks but it's not that bad OR time consuming.

 

thats my old English's teachers nephew or cousin or something hahah

 

I can honestly say I never did one single stitch of summer work required of me, for any class, ever. And I had a 4.0. You just gotta know how to ****************.

 

Wow. This is interesting censorship.

If it's one thing, then you need to know how to pull a paper out of nowhere, etc.

If it's another, then there are some teachers involved in inappropriate activities with their students!

Hmmm.... I wonder which one you mean!

 

One thing I don't get is, why do you need pre-calc work over the summer? Books, sure. But pre-calc?
I've always felt math was a subject you can learn from a book. (There is a "right" answer, after all.) So if they're going to teach part of the class later, why not the whole class? I don't get it.

P.S. AP classes aren't necessarily more work. They're just more challenging. There's a key difference.

 

Math is also one of those subjects that you build upon a foundation of knowledge. Perhaps the work assigned was to make sure that come the first weeks of school, the teacher does not have to spend a month reviewing material from the year before.

 

And justice is done.

Well, except for the defendants sticking the plaintiffs with legal fees for a frivolous lawsuit.

 

Stupid kiddo. Just send him to army