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SRskierSFS
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Wis. Student Sues to End Summer Homework

By RYAN NAKASHIMA

MILWAUKEE (AP) - A student whose vacation plans were spoiled has sued to end summer homework in Wisconsin, claiming it creates an unfair workload and unnecessary stress.

Peer Larson, 17, had lined up a dream camp counselor job last June, but honors pre-calculus homework turned his summer into a headache.

``It didn't completely ruin my summer, but it did give me a lot of undue stress both at home and at work,'' the high school junior said Thursday. ``I just didn't have the energy or the time for it.''

Larson and his father sued in Milwaukee County Circuit Court seeking the end of summer homework across the state. They argue that homework shouldn't be required after the required 180-day school year is over.


``These students are still children, yet they are subjected to increasing pressure to perform to ever-higher standards in numerous theaters,'' the suit said.


School administrators have told the family that honors courses require some summer work.


Whitnall School Superintendent Karen Petric told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the district did its best to address the Larsons' concerns.


``I strongly believe the district acted appropriately and didn't do anything wrong,'' she said. ``Court is not the place to solve it.''


While students will probably root for the Larsons, lawyers contacted Thursday questioned the suit's legal grounds. Larson and his son had acted as their own legal counsel.


``This is the sort of thing that has been traditionally handled by school boards,'' said attorney Thomas R. Schrimpf. Another attorney, Timothy Baldwin, predicted the case would be dismissed.


The Jan. 10 lawsuit names a math teacher, three school administrators and the state's superintendent of public instruction. Wisconsin's attorney general's office will assign a lawyer to respond to the suit, said spokesman Brian Rieselman.
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Jan 23 2005 11:32AM
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He is in honors pre-calculus... here's an easy solution, DROP DOWN TO LOWER CLASS! If you can't handle it, then move to another class, easy as that. God I hate people...





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Jan 23 2005 11:49AM
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Anathema
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yeah what a dumbass. People just need to find excuses because they are weak and can't deal with themselves. That's pretty fuckin' stupid. Reminds me of the time that dude sued Fear Factor because as he was flipping through a channels, he saw something nasty and it made him feel dizzy and he got up and walked into a door and hurt himself.



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Jan 23 2005 11:51AM
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pre calculus isn't even hard.

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Jan 23 2005 12:05PM
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Jan 23 2005 12:08PM
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id be pissed if a teacher assigned homework over the summer...

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Jan 23 2005 12:30PM
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danbrown
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i haaaaate pre calc. i'm doing better in my college history class than standard pre-calculus


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Jan 23 2005 12:43PM
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reezyfbaby
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i dunno, in canada we dont have pre-calc, just calc. but it seems like the guy probly cant handle it neways.

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Jan 23 2005 12:50PM
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if it was a nomral class id side with the kid, but it isnt so fuck the little bitch
Jan 23 2005 2:28PM
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*BeckyK*
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he signed up for it... get over it
Jan 23 2005 2:33PM
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why would homework be assigned over the summer? i agree, it's unnecessary...

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Jan 23 2005 3:02PM
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Work in summer helps a lot keeping ur brain in tune-
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Jan 23 2005 3:10PM
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*BeckyK*
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for AP and honors classes it is important so that when school starts they don't have to waste time reviewing stuff from previous classes... i don't really mind it and i usually wait until the last two/three weeks of summer to do it, and even then i only spend an hour a day reviewing... i remember this year we had a hundred point test the first day back in AP bio...
Jan 23 2005 3:13PM
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you crazy americans. that is so stupid. seriously.

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Jan 23 2005 3:17PM
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Sinister
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The stupid thing, i believe, is their school system. They should put a bit more emphasis on some stuff. At least that's what I thought in Maine. And, by the way, american schools are the exact same thing as they picture in hollywood movies!
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Jan 23 2005 3:19PM
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I don't think people bring their desks with them on vacation...

Summer is summer, school is school.

And yes you weiners I'm in AP and honors classes.
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Jan 23 2005 3:24PM
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Anathema
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Heh, so many of you hate pre-calc? Jesus Christ I'm in engineering. All of my courses are math/physics based. What do you all plan on doing in the future of you can't handle very basic math?



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Jan 23 2005 4:34PM
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that kid is a fag



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Jan 23 2005 5:15PM
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anathema, I've met many of millionaires and various extremely successful people who only know basic math. And by basic math I mean addition, subtraction, dividing, and multiplication. That's it.

Personally, that's all I care about. Any physics/calculus does not concern me.

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Jan 23 2005 5:25PM
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wow. You want a higher level class, college credit for 82 dollars (cost of AP test) then you gotta work for it. What a fuck.
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Jan 23 2005 5:31PM
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hucker22
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so isnt like summer 2 months? how could he not do hw in 2 months? what an idiot. and this shit aobut unfair workload i dont think people with jos get the summer off. what an idiot
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Jan 23 2005 9:03PM
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Fuckin people are sue happy.





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Jan 23 2005 9:45PM
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'Heh, so many of you hate pre-calc? Jesus Christ I'm in engineering. All of my courses are math/physics based.' -anathema

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Jan 23 2005 9:50PM
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that kids a weiner. unfair workload? send that whiney bitch to china so he can go to school for 8 hours a day year round. what a fag he doesnt know how easy he has it.


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Jan 23 2005 10:40PM
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how incredibly lame! sorry, but NO CLASS IN US highschools is even challenging, let alone stressful...I amintained a 99 average taking a mix of senior and junior classes after only 2 years of pretty poor English education in an astern European country









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Jan 23 2005 11:18PM
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yep, he's a weiner

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Jan 23 2005 11:56PM
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ahem...i mean winner.........i mean, yeah weiner, he's a friggin tool.
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man u guys live in a very fucked up country
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Jan 24 2005 12:25AM
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i remember a girl I know had to do a bit of work in summer for one of her year 12 subjects (our last year of school here). can't remember what it was though. the lawyers aren't supporting the kid (questioning the legal grounds) because he decided to represent himself and not give the work to a real lawyer, haha

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Jan 24 2005 7:01AM
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t-man152
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out of 50 countries tested the United States School system was ranked 48 out of 50. already not very good at educating their kids and people are trying to take away an advantage that the smarter kids have.

50th place here we come
Jan 24 2005 7:36AM
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Yeeeeep, this is ridiculous. He has ALL SUMMER to do this work. If he can't handle the summer homework, then he has no reason to be enrolled in the class in the first place. The work he gets during the school year will be much harder.

Personally, I liked having the summer homework for my Honors and AP classes. It enabled me to learn more throughout the rest of the school year and kept the teachers from having to reteach the students things from previous years to understand the REAL material for the course.


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Jan 24 2005 7:47AM
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1) his hw prob took him as long as it did b/c he procrastinated over it so da,mn much
2) he's obviously stupid; precal is easy, and you didnt like...DROP DOWN TO A LOWER LEVEL!
i seriously doubt that it took him all summer to do his precal hw. What a loser.
Jan 24 2005 3:55PM
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Jan 24 2005 3:57PM
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wow whatd he expect if he signed up for a harder class, if he didnt wanna do the work he should have dropped the class, they dont hand out good grades in classes like that you gotta work for em
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Jan 24 2005 4:07PM
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even calculus isnt hard




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Jan 24 2005 9:14PM
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'his father sued in Milwaukee County'

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Jan 24 2005 9:42PM
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i still think homework should be banned forever. bite my head off, but homework is a bitch and school sucks. period.



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Jan 24 2005 9:42PM
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hah im in honors pre-calc and its... well interesting because i dont really pay attention in class and have to learn all the shit from the book. because i took honors algebra II last year i got in fine, but a bunch of kids who took normal algebra II had to take summer courses to get in. they got pissed about that
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Jan 24 2005 10:24PM
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t-man152
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Just wondering did the kid just start the lawsuit or is this old news because suing over summer homework in January is kinda stupid.
Jan 24 2005 11:56PM
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summer homework is not cool. god i hate it
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i hope he wins its bullshit, let kids be kids and relax, they say we get weekends off,no we get saturday off, sunday you have to do fukin homework all day
Jul 28 2006 2:24AM
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Dan.
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i think summer work is good, excessive homework during the school year is pure bullshit though.
Jul 28 2006 2:39AM
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slice_of_mustard
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yessss thats so awsome!!!!!!! school work over the summer? thats total bullshit
Jul 28 2006 3:03AM
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norbastradamus
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yah thats kinda shit that you would get school work during the summer, to take 2 3 days for review isnt goign to kill the teacher.
Jul 28 2006 8:18AM
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Badfish2
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Is that for real??
Jul 28 2006 10:32AM
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Tulley.
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never thought id see someone sue a teacher cuz of homework. why doesnt he just deal with the fact that he is smart and do it. or he could just drop to a lower class
Jul 28 2006 10:40AM
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skiflake
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i should be doing homework right now
Jul 28 2006 11:12AM
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RockandRollTroll
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let me be the first to have a firsthand view on this situation. My school district here could buy the entire Milwaukee Public School District. Thats how broke they are. Its not worth suing them.
Jul 28 2006 11:26AM
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haa
Jul 28 2006 5:43PM
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