One of the laziest things a teacher can do is assign the students a word search as their work assignment, a lot of students including the extremely lazy ones agree it’s stupid. What will a word find teach you that your teacher can’t? Nothing really, all it’s good for is straining your eyes until you’ve found the word you’ve been searching for the past ten minutes.
It really is a waste of good learning/practice time, it’s not like staring at a single word will teach kids what the definition of it means. Text books are annoying to read but at least someone can learn from reading one while all you get from a word search is practice to see how nicely you can bubble in a letter, which may come in handy for someone one day, maybe.
No one likes paper work, student or teacher, but if we’re given an assignment it might as well be helpful to our education. A crossword puzzle would be better than a word search because at least with crosswords there’s always a description of the word given or a hint that will actually makes the person think. With a cross word all you do is find the word within the jumble of random letters, basically it’s like trying to find Waldo except we’re looking for words.
So word searches as school assignments are pretty pointless but hey, if any teacher wants to assign us easy credit points go right ahead, I really wouldn’t mind that.
This is a very good point. In my younger days I loved word searches just because they wasted time and were a small challenge. I never really realized though that I never really learned anything from them. Lolzors, gg gurl.
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