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No homework is “fun” unless kid’s can do it during t.v. (which most kids do anyway…) or jam out to their iPod. This includes packets. I think most people hate packets is because instead of five worksheets in five days, it’s five pages in one day. It just makes it seem like a hevier workload.
Plus, if you don’t compltetely understand the work- but then take it home you could completely flunk the packet rather then one worksheet since you could ask about it the next day…
I dont think it’s the packets we hate… just the homework.
Haley

Mr. Madden,

Packets are no help to my learning, yet handouts are.

There is something about getting a packet for homework that makes everyone despise packets (including me). Even though I usually get A’s on them, it doesn’t mean I’ve learned something. All I do is read the question, find the answer from a book or my brain, and write it down. I won’t remember what I wrote within three minutes, but I still got it right. What’s the use of a packet when no one is learning anything? Like Haley said, you could completely flunk the packet rather then one handout by not understanding something. Plus, it takes so much longer to do a packet than a handout, yet we learn less (in my opinion).

Handouts are my kind of homework. They’re quick so we can take our time. Usually they go right down to the main idea of what we’re learning. That way they stay on the one topic and don’t go up and over the edge with every detail and information, like a packet. Instead of having to “learn” everything in a packet in one night, we can take it slow with one handout a day, like Haley said. By doing this, it’s much easier to put information in our heads, and have it stay there.

This is why I feel the packets aren’t a help to my learning, yet handouts are.

Kaitlyn S.

HEY MR.M !!! i think packets stink! because like katlyn said instead of getting one thing in your head at a time, you have to get everything i your head and it is alot harder to remember that way. It just takes so much more time but we are actually learning lees because it is hard to get everything in your head,but with one handout you learn alot more because itis only one page. so that is why i hate packets. and i am very glad that you have never givin us any packets

BYE-BYE

LYDIA

Mr.Madden,

I disagree. Packets are longer and harder than hand-outs, but how else are we supposed to challenge ourselves. And think of all those children out there. No homes, no education, and no hope left. In other words we are pretty dang lucky!!! We all aren’t giant lazy blobs, not haveing the ability to get off our rears and put a little elbow grease in our every day tasks. Maybe if we didn’t look at homework as a chore and more as a favor teachers are doing for (not them) us we would be more greatful!! All I have to say more is, thank you all you teachers out there because without you where would we be now, huh?

GO PACKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr. Madden

I disagre with every comment so far. I personally hate packets and handouts. I always loose them. Or at least think I’ve lost them. Or they get crumpled up or ripped and it looks like you threw it away and your mom made you dig through old banna peels and those moldy sloopy joes you were supposed to eat just to get your homework out, do it, and turn it in. I love having homework from the textbook exept for the problems where you have to explain why 6and 4/5 plus 2and 3/8 is 9and 7/40. But that’s just me.
- Caitlin Z
P.S Mr. Madden, I know you were trying to be funny but you shouldn’t use the word “upside” as it’s not in the English, French or Spanish lanuage.

I don’t mind the ocasional hand-out but when a teacher constantly hands out, hand-outs (sorry) really get annoyed with the teacher, and get bored with the class. Packets at the end of a unit help to re-enforce important details that might be forgotten if the didn’t do a packet. Some teachers, I’m not going to name names, substitute packets for class discussions, or whatever you call it, but a sheet of paper can only teach you so much. When the teacher explains the concept to the whole class instead of doing a worksheet, I personally think that the students benifit much, much more.

Tess

Hey Mr.Madden,

I personally like packets rather than a worksheets because all the papers are stapled together so it makes it harder to lose (and harder to come up with an excuse that you lost it!!). I know when I clean out my folders, I am more likely to see a big fat packet saying ORGANIZATION then random papers.
Also, if I had to do a packet for homework I would rather to that because I can just keep going page after page and not have to mess with oodles of papers.
Most of the time we don’t even have to do EVERYTHING in the packet.

Delanie O.