tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post5193118186241652850..comments2024-03-19T18:36:41.875-04:00Comments on Yes, That Too: My Problem With HomeworkAlyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413844178426365789noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post-85252550463808272032013-10-06T16:50:21.778-04:002013-10-06T16:50:21.778-04:00Yes, us too! My son was running into this over the...Yes, us too! My son was running into this over the years and it was getting to be a issue. Luckily for us, the differentiated instruction accommodations in his newly acquired 504 have helped alleviate the stress tremendously by exempting him from certain/excess homework assignments. At first, I felt like we were "getting away with something", but now I see the positive impact the 504 has. My son seems to be a little more comfortable with school now (and he's still doing very well academically.) http://waitwhatmom.blogspot.com/2013/05/yeah-were-just-not-gonna-be-doing-that.html<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059888032938259694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post-83549532507453915792013-09-20T06:55:26.731-04:002013-09-20T06:55:26.731-04:00They didn't teach me any English beyond spelli...They didn't teach me any English beyond spelling until 9th grade because they were so damned up their own behinds about it, they didn't realize that my handwriting issues were not behavioral. <br /><br />It should've been obvious. Buuut nope. Nope, nope, nope. My frustration? Just not having the self-discipline to apply myself to something boring. So, yeah, because I didn't see the point to being made to repeat hours and hours of handwriting sheets endlessly when it gave me no benefit to my handwriting and was painful and also <i>obviously not working</i>, I lacked self-discipline. <br /><br />My handwriting being messy even on assignments I cared about? Carelessness. I spent hours recopying those assignments to try to avoid losing marks, but somehow I didn't care about them. Right. <br /><br />One time, my teacher held me down in a desk at noon and told me I wasn't going home until I finished a handwriting sheet neatly enough. It was six PM when my parents called the school wondering where the fuck I was. And I still hadn't finished it to her satisfaction, but I <i>was</i> in hysterical tears because my arm hurt that bad. <br /><br />Motor dysgraphia. It's a thing. I have it. <br /><br />But according to the school, I was just being a brat. Lazy. Willful. Dishonest. Apathetic.<br /><br />In grade nine, my English teacher saw that I wasn't as apathetic as everyone said I was and rescued me from handwriting hell by ordering me to type everything. That year was the year I got to learn what a question mark was. And an exclamation point. And a semicolon. And other grammar rules that you're supposed to get by fourth grade (like "A proper sentence has a subject and a verb.") but I never got because they decided to hold my English education hostage to my handwriting. <br /><br />So, yeah - I feel your feels here. People wonder why I'm so bitter about school. Um, who <i>wouldn't</i> be?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post-12670535531036856112013-09-19T11:17:47.510-04:002013-09-19T11:17:47.510-04:00THANK YOU for this article! I've been having m...THANK YOU for this article! I've been having middle-school flashbacks because they'd constantly berate me for not being organized, and other things beyond my control telling me i could control them but was too lazy to try, when i actually was trying so hard I was at my breaking point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com