Work Work Work. Busy Busy Busy. Busy Work.

Most people loved when they had a subsitutue teacher in school. Sometimes it meant a movie. Sometimes it meant easy worksheets. Sometimes it meant getting "Ms. Piggy" the twenty-two year old sub who thought she was cool and hot, but was quite the opposite, who always said "You remind me so much of my on-again/off-again boyfriend". Gross.

However, everytime you had a sub you were guarenteed some sort of busy work. This is why I hated having subs. If I am going to have to spend time doing work at least let it benefit me in some way. Filling out a worksheet for 45 minutes that will get a "check" and then tossed in the trash (unless you are my friend KAB who got "check +" all the time somehow).

Busy work sucks. You know it is a waste of time. Your teacher knows it is a waste of time. Yet ... there you are not learning. If the project doesn't teach anything or takes 5 times as long to teach a point than is necessary you should not have that assignment.

Busy work was created in Kindergarten to keep kids from rampaging in between snack and nap times. It continued all through grade school because teachers aren't always good. In high school it was usually left for subs to hand out or at the end of quarters when there was nothing to do. College even had busy work at times. I thought it was over ... but it isn't. Busy work still exists in my life. I think right now Barack Obama somehow is doing some busy work in order to do his job. Maybe that is why Bush never got to anything important ... couldn't fill out that ditto fast enough.