School is just as much about learning to do what you don't want to do for reasons you can't comprehend as it is about learning the subjects. Life forces you to a lot of things you don't want to do to achieve a goal. I had a goal of scholarships with a good GPA, so I did what I was told even when I didn't want to and I graduated 10th in my clss of over 500. I don't think I was the 10th smartest in that group, but I was 10th best at playing the game.

There are many things in my job I have to do that I do not want to and I find to be somewhat illogical. But I want to keep my job to feed my family, so I do what I have to.

So learn to balance doing what you don't want to so that you can get what you do.

Or just don't get an ulcer over it. I got plenty of B's and C's and teachers who felt doing homework was more important than whether you knew the stuff. I just didn't care. I knew when I knew the material, the grades didn't matter much to me.

That's true, I just disagree on what is in the "what you have to do" bucket. But part of it is knowing what closes doors and cuts off opportunity. I've proven very good at letting go of the stuff that's irrelevant to what I want to do and recognizing what is necessary (even if I don't like it) to what I want to do.

I did try to negotiate things to fit my methods though so do that too. I successfully negotiated with several of my teachers that 100% of my grade would come from tests, I didn't want the partial credit that is homework.

But mostly I wasn't offering advice seriously, since the advice I'd give simply reflects my personal experience which is irrelevant to anybody else except in a tapestry of anecdotal advice offered by everybody.

In my opinion the best advice I gave above was that a kid isn't worth the fun of sex and that high school love is (almost always) transient so don't get too worked up about it.

If the homework is questions at end of the chapter, you can usually answer them by skimming and skip the whole reading bit.

We were talking the other night about the LoT kids starting High School and I was thinking that, at some point, we would all become LoT Grandparents. Frightening!

I hope Madz and Tori are enjoying school! It's a ride,

You can add Headliner to the list she is a High School freshman as well.

Her History teacher has a banner up: Freshman are friends not food.

Screw what everyone else said; slack off, be pain to the teachers, counselors, etc., start smoking because it is the ONLY way to be cool, ditch class, and get pregnant.

I am currently in Des Moines, IA and will be heading to Minneapolis on Saturday, coming home on Tuesday.

Lol- I read your 'advice' and was going to verbally smack you around, KB. Then I skipped down and read your location. Heh heh.....instant karma.;)

I think Tori is smart enough to never listen to kevy. ;)

Hey Headliner! Remember when we told you not to talk to strangers?

This is the guy we were talking about.

Also, regardless of what anybody in school tells you, there really is no practical value (for 99.9% of the populace) in knowing any math beyond second year algebra. But teenagers find integrals sexy so taking calculus will get you laid.