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17 Homework Memes That Tell It Like It Is

Because the only one that really likes homework is the dog.

Homework—love it or hate it, it’s a universal experience for most teachers (and students). And while both sides of the homework debate have merit, why not just accept it and have a good laugh? Here, 17 of our favorite homework memes.

1. Dang, they’re on to us.

2. Pulling. Hair. Out.

3. Life is hard.

4. Listen to Yoda.

5. The REAL reason teachers give homework.

6. Can I get a witness?

7. Homework as dirty word?

8. Making a clean getaway.

9. Teacher reality.

10. Oh yeah, we know that look.

11. Help me understand.

12. If they ask me one more time…

13. Another teacher reality.

14. Umm, umm, umm.

15. Parenting reality.

16. Say what?!?

17. It’s not my fault, really.

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37 Funny Homework Memes

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Do you ever feel like doing your homework is a waste of time? Well, you’re not alone. Plenty of people feel that way, including me. I used to dread homework and would even go to the library after school to try to get them done before heading home but I just hated it! Now, that I think about it, homework memes could have been just what I needed to improve my mood.

If you’re looking for a good laugh (or just some validation that you’re not the only one who hates homework), then check out these 37 hilarious homework memes. Take a break from studying and get a much-needed laugh, you’ll be glad you did. Enjoy!

Let the homework memes begin!

1) “A degree is called a degree because at the end, your total grade is made up of 360 credits. I’m baffled. I should be at university.”

2) “Ay you people, why don’t you do your homework?”

3) “Brace yourself, homework is coming.”

4) “A day may come when I start my assignments but it is not this day.”

5) “Did you just swear? I could’ve sworn I heard the word homework.”

6) “Do your homework now.”

7) “Doing homework at 4:00 am.”

8) “Even if homework for a class only counts for ten percent of your overall grade, do it. If you make a mistake on a test your grade can still be pretty good.”

9) “Expects you to have all your homework in on time. Takes weeks to grade it.”

10) “Finds all answers to homework on Google.”

11) “Finish homework over the weekend? I’ll just relax on Saturday and do the rest on Sunday .”

12) “Getting back an essay after being marked: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.”

13) “Me handing in my essays: Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite.”

14) “Homework? Ain’t nobody got time for that.”

15) “How to start an essay: Buckle your seat belts, [censored], because in eight short pages I am going to learn u a thing that I only learned myself about two hours ago, so sit down, shut up, and enjoy the experience of my 4-am-RedBull-induced-self-hatred-fuelled-writing-extravaganza.

16) “I leave homework to the last day because I’ll be older and therefore wiser.”

17) “Imagine a world with no homework.”

Funny and clean memes when you just want to sleep!

18) “Just me when I finally finish my homework at 3 am.”

19) “Keep calm and do your homework.”

20) “When you know you did a bad job but you’re just proud you finished your assignment.”

21) “Me writing an essay like…The. Break time!”

22) “My anxieties have anxieties.”

23) “Oh ‘You didn’t have time to do your homework?’ Tell me again about the 3 hours you spent on your phone.”

24) “Okay, I absolutely have to do this assignment.”

25) “Please tell me more about why you did not have time to finish your two-minute homework during your 48-hour weekend.”

26) “‘I’m so glad my holiday is over so I can work long hours and stay up late to check homework.’ Said no teacher ever.”

27) “Study. Sleep.”

28) “Teacher: Finish homework. Me: Must get it done.”

29) “That face you make when you realize you have homework.”

30) “You want to be wise? Do your homework!”

31) “Homework: The teachers’ way of knowing how smart the parent is.”

32) “What if I told you it doesn’t matter how many points this is worth.”

33) “When the bell rings and the teacher forgot to mention the homework.”

34) “Why is this me: Me thinking about my dream job. Me studying for my dream job.”

35) “Writing an essay the night before it’s due: I’m going to type every word I know! Rectangle. America. Megaphone. Monday. Butthole.”

36) “You have to do homework? Your life must be so hard.”

37) “If it’s called ‘homework’ what would it be called if you live in an apartment?”

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Homework Struggles May Not Be a Behavior Problem

Exploring some options to understand and help..

Posted August 2, 2022 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan

• Mental health challenges and neurodevelopmental differences directly affect children's ability to do homework.
• Understanding what difficulties are getting in the way—beyond the usual explanation of a behavior problem—is key.
• Sleep and mental health needs can take priority over homework completion.

Chelsea was in 10th grade the first time I told her directly to stop doing her homework and get some sleep. I had been working with her since she was in middle school, treating her anxiety disorder. She deeply feared disappointing anyone—especially her teachers—and spent hours trying to finish homework perfectly. The more tired and anxious she got, the harder it got for her to finish the assignments.

One night Chelsea called me in despair, feeling hopeless. She was exhausted and couldn’t think straight. She felt like a failure and that she was a burden to everyone because she couldn’t finish her homework.

She was shocked when I told her that my prescription for her was to go to sleep now—not to figure out how to finish her work. I told her to leave her homework incomplete and go to sleep. We briefly discussed how we would figure it out the next day, with her mom and her teachers. At that moment, it clicked for her that it was futile to keep working—because nothing was getting done.

This was an inflection point for her awareness of when she was emotionally over-cooked and when she needed to stop and take a break or get some sleep. We repeated versions of this phone call several times over the course of her high school and college years, but she got much better at being able to do this for herself most of the time.

When Mental Health Symptoms Interfere with Homework

Kids with mental health or neurodevelopmental challenges often struggle mightily with homework. Challenges can come up in every step of the homework process, including, but not limited to:

• Remembering and tracking assignments and materials
• Getting the mental energy/organization to start homework
• Filtering distractions enough to persist with assignments
• Understanding unspoken or implied parts of the homework
• Remembering to bring finished homework to class
• Being in class long enough to know the material
• Tolerating the fear of not knowing or failing
• Not giving up the assignment because of a panic attack
• Tolerating frustration—such as not understanding—without emotional dysregulation
• Being able to ask for help—from a peer or a teacher and not being afraid to reach out

This list is hardly comprehensive. ADHD , autism spectrum disorder, social anxiety , generalized anxiety, panic disorder, depression , dysregulation, and a range of other neurodevelopmental and mental health challenges cause numerous learning differences and symptoms that can specifically and frequently interfere with getting homework done.

The Usual Diagnosis for Homework Problems is "Not Trying Hard Enough"

Unfortunately, when kids frequently struggle to meet homework demands, teachers and parents typically default to one explanation of the problem: The child is making a choice not to do their homework. That is the default “diagnosis” in classrooms and living rooms. And once this framework is drawn, the student is often seen as not trying hard enough, disrespectful, manipulative, or just plain lazy.

The fundamental disconnect here is that the diagnosis of homework struggles as a behavioral choice is, in fact, only one explanation, while there are so many other diagnoses and differences that impair children's ability to consistently do their homework. If we are trying to create solutions based on only one understanding of the problem, the solutions will not work. More devastatingly, the wrong solutions can worsen the child’s mental health and their long-term engagement with school and learning.

To be clear, we aren’t talking about children who sometimes struggle with or skip homework—kids who can change and adapt their behaviors and patterns in response to the outcomes of that struggle. For this discussion, we are talking about children with mental health and/or neurodevelopmental symptoms and challenges that create chronic difficulties with meeting homework demands.

How Can You Help a Child Who Struggles with Homework?

How can you help your child who is struggling to meet homework demands because of their ADHD, depression, anxiety, OCD , school avoidance, or any other neurodevelopmental or mental health differences? Let’s break this down into two broad areas—things you can do at home, and things you can do in communication with the school.

Helping at Home

The following suggestions for managing school demands at home can feel counterintuitive to parents—because we usually focus on helping our kids to complete their tasks. But mental health needs jump the line ahead of task completion. And starting at home will be key to developing an idea of what needs to change at school.

• Set an end time in the evening after which no more homework will be attempted. Kids need time to decompress and they need sleep—and pushing homework too close to or past bedtime doesn’t serve their educational needs. Even if your child hasn’t been able to approach the homework at all, even if they have avoided and argued the whole evening, it is still important for everyone to have a predictable time to shut down the whole process.
• If there are arguments almost every night about homework, if your child isn’t starting homework or finishing it, reframe it from failure into information. It’s data to put into problem-solving. We need to consider other possible explanations besides “behavioral choice” when trying to understand the problem and create effective solutions. What problems are getting in the way of our child’s meeting homework demands that their peers are meeting most of the time?
• Try not to argue about homework. If you can check your own anxiety and frustration, it can be more productive to ally with your child and be curious with them. Kids usually can’t tell you a clear “why” but maybe they can tell you how they are feeling and what they are thinking. And if your child can’t talk about it or just keeps saying “I don't know,” try not to push. Come back another time. Rushing, forcing, yelling, and threatening will predictably not help kids do homework.

Helping at School

The second area to explore when your neurodiverse child struggles frequently with homework is building communication and connections with school and teachers. Some places to focus on include the following.

• Label your child’s diagnoses and break down specific symptoms for the teachers and school team. Nonjudgmental, but specific language is essential for teachers to understand your child’s struggles. Breaking their challenges down into the problems specific to homework can help with building solutions. As your child gets older, help them identify their difficulties and communicate them to teachers.
• Let teachers and the school team know that your child’s mental health needs—including sleep—take priority over finishing homework. If your child is always struggling to complete homework and get enough sleep, or if completing homework is leading to emotional meltdowns every night, adjusting their homework demands will be more successful than continuing to push them into sleep deprivation or meltdowns.
• Request a child study team evaluation to determine if your child qualifies for services under special education law such as an IEP, or accommodations through section 504—and be sure that homework adjustments are included in any plan. Or if such a plan is already in place, be clear that modification of homework expectations needs to be part of it.

The Long-Term Story

I still work with Chelsea and she recently mentioned how those conversations so many years ago are still part of how she approaches work tasks or other demands that are spiking her anxiety when she finds herself in a vortex of distress. She stops what she is doing and prioritizes reducing her anxiety—whether it’s a break during her day or an ending to the task for the evening. She sees that this is crucial to managing her anxiety in her life and still succeeding at what she is doing.

Task completion at all costs is not a solution for kids with emotional needs. Her story (and the story of many of my patients) make this crystal clear.

Candida Fink, M.D. , is board certified in child/adolescent and general psychiatry. She practices in New York and has co-authored two books— The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child and Bipolar Disorder for Dummies.

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