I hate useless homework 
I usually found myself not doing any when the teacher didn't check it (or if the homework didn't affect my grades directly), because I found no purpose redoing stuff I already understand quite well. The only homework I really did that didn't count in grades was in french class because I had trouble in that class and wanted to practice some stuff more. Besides that usually I finished my homework inside classes since I started before the teacher finishes explaining what work/homework we'll have to do (since I wrote notes in advances). However this is not possible in every class because some are really demanding 
Glad to see the project isn't dead. I was just a bit worried since it seemed to show no more sign of life
This.
E.g. math. I haven't learned
anything in the last 2 months... Yet I got a 66.7% (originally 6/9) on my math test today, so I ran across it: all my answers were correct. I just lost 33+1/3% because I didn't
explain what I was doing, or I made some stupid notational mistakes. I agree if the teacher subtracts points because of the latter, but about all the rest: when I think something is evident/trivial/whatever I don't care about the underlying stuff, since I can prove it easily. Why do such things matter if I have the insight and I can apply it correctly? Honestly, I can't just have
guessed all the answers, can I?
The problem with the teaching system (at least in Flanders), is the fact that everyone should get to the same level as the 'average pupil'. This has two consequences:
- slower-than-average people can't keep up and have to redo their term. (I don't know how that works in the US.)
- faster-than-average people get bored, and the only thing they do is sit on a chair, look at the blackboard and numb their brains.
Well, I don't want to brag, but I'm well into that second category. I am hardly challenged at school, so I get bored. The teachers still
dare do ask why I don't bother studying=>bad marks for all the 'parrot subjects' (=classes where you, in practice, only write stuff on a test that comes literally from the textbook)... And they wonder why I ask all those annoying questions. (some teachers, i.e. the guys who know their stuff, can answer those. Other teachers can't. They are distributed approx. fifty-fifty)
If our brain is not constantly driven to its extremes, how do we expect to get cleverer? School kinda
makes us dumb.
F r u s t r a t i o n
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EDIT: No tl;dr's, please. Read everything before responding, I know some things are ambiguous when out of context. (but feel free to ask me to clarify)
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