From 10th grade onward - even in College, I wrote all of my papers the following lazy way (and got good grades for them): I would copy-paste huge chunks of text off of the internet into Microsoft Word, then, I would choose what I was going to quote or whatever, and for the rest of it: I would go through, word by word, right-clicking each word, scrolling down to synonyms, and then change the word. It worked like a charm.

Oh, BTW, using someone else's ideas from a publishing or essay without credit is plagiarism. Doesn't matter how well you change up the words. Just credit all of your sources and you can write an entire essay with other people's quotes.

Schools like to throw the word plagiarism around, but papers for school are really just for make believe anyway.

I never had the resources like the kids today have. I had to go to the library and research the old fashion way. I use to half ass it through using cliff notes and skim reading to get a C.

In college I put more work into them and got As. In fact my English instructor gave one my papers to another instructor to use as an example for their class. The thesis was debating something to do with education and you guys know how I like to debate.

I feel school is make belief anyway. You do a bunch of crap that has nothing to do with succeeding in the real world. High school and college were huge wastes of time. Sometimes I feel like the whole world is make belief and I wish I could just go back to being a kid when the world actually seemed real and important to me.

Oh wow a necro bump.
The average kid spends just over 1200 hours per year at school. So much of it is wasted doing stuff they will never use in real life.

They keep cramming more and more into the 7 hour/180 day school year. Because of this there isn't enough time to cover everything in class. Kids are forced to do several hours of homework each week on top of their school day. It should be school and then childhood after the bell rings to dismiss. Kids shouldn't have to worry about getting home before bed to get their homework done. It should be covered in class. There would be enough time to cover it in class if they cut out all of the bullshit like diagramming sentences (I hated that too pinwheel).

Imagine how much better the world would be if schools focused more on teaching kids life skills like being respectful, solving disputes, social skills, safety, first aid.....others like cooking, cleaning, hygiene, taking care of kids/pets, home and auto maintenance and self defense. Instead we force kids to sit at a desk and do things they will probably forget.

Looking back school definitely went on far too long in terms of hours and days in the school year. A kid should learn important things and being social should be encouraged rather than having to sit there in a desk for long periods of time. As a kid I had a ton of energy so I would run around a lot before school started, at recess and lunch. Even with all of that activity I didn't want to just sit still in a desk. I wanted to learn important things rather than all the strange things they teach in school that serves no real purpose. I learned way more on my own than I did at school. The most important aspect for a kid is to have fun and be happy.

Yea 90% of the behavioral problems back in elementary were due to talking in class. There definitely should have been more group and interactive learning. The way it was presented was boring and I would just daydream most of the day. This lead to me getting far behind in school. High school wasn't as bad as class was only 55 minutes and you had different surroundings for each class period. In elementary school you were in the same class most of the day with the same teacher. If you had a bad teacher you had a bad school year.