Top 10 Worst Websites Schools Use
This is a list of the absolute worst educational websites that schools make students use. Feel free to add any school websites you hate.
I-Ready is the worst of them all. Even worse is the fact that my 8th grade math teacher made the class do I-Ready for 2 hours per week in addition to MobyMax for an additional 1 hour, plus assigning us physical homework on paper all 5 days of the week. This was the 2019-2020 school year for those wondering.
As if going to school wasn't already physically and mentally draining enough. Also, I hate how it makes you repeat lessons even if you learn nothing from repeating them.
This program sucks. It makes me stay up very late only to get no progress done and my teacher to yell at me for being tired. This should be discontinued.
I had to do XtraMath back in 4th grade (2015-2016 school year), and I always hated the "race the teacher" thing that would always stress me out as I was terrible at math.
It put me under so much pressure! The photos of the teacher were also very distracting. This website made me and probably other people pretty mad.
I get upset because I only got about 2 seconds to solve the problems. Also, that guy on it is pretty creepy.
I had to do MobyMax for an hour per week from August 2019 to June 2020 when I was only 13 and in the 8th grade. Boy, did I hate it. The website is lame and is only slightly better than stupid I-Ready.
I will never forget when my 7th grade history teacher assigned the class homework on Achieve 3000 for Thanksgiving Break 2018, Christmas Break 2018-19, and Spring Break 2019.
I hope I don't get her again next year because she now teaches at my current high school for 11th grade history, and I'm already in the 10th grade. She's that one teacher who assigns homework over the break.
I freaking hate this thing. The teachers literally control what we do, and it feels like they are spying on us. They should never use this website.
It's not really a website, but I added this anyway because it's spyware that some schools (like mine) install on the computers. It basically blocks most websites (including ones that actually are appropriate for school) and it spies on you even when you're in your own home.
Whoever created this extension deserves to be held accountable someday.
The blocking is annoying, and like the spying, some teachers forgot to turn off the site checking.
I had to do this again during my senior year of high school to improve my grade for US History, Semester 1. It was even worse than the first time around because I had to complete every assignment. Previously, I could do just some of the assignments, and the teacher would grade based on the percentage completed. This time, it took me until early May to finally finish, and that was only for a one-semester course.
I had to use this website last year in 9th grade, and it sucked. At least my teacher didn't actually make sure we did the assignments and based our grades on the scores we got. This meant that I didn't have to do any work for months on end after I did chapter 2 and got an 80% score overall.
IXL is rigged against you. If you spend three hours with blood, sweat, and tears just to get to an 85%, then get the next question right, great - that's one point added to your "smartscore." But if you get the next question wrong, it sets you back by around 20 "smartscore" points.
Also, the number of questions actually required to finish an IXL assignment is unreasonable.
I'm supposed to be doing it now, but it's so depressing. My mom is wondering why I don't want to study. It is because of how stressful and annoying it is.
Oh, and I have to use it 1 hour a day every day. I use this because I have a tutor that put me up to it (by the way, my mom is forcing me to do IXL). Lucky you if your parents don't know about this website. If they do, say goodbye to your fun life.
My geometry teacher makes the class use this, and it sucks.
Worst thing ever. The smart score is rigged, and lots of kids have had breakdowns because of this (including me). Plus, it costs a lot of money, which is pointless.
The worst educational extension known to mankind.
My elementary school made us do boring tests on this website.
The Newcomers
If you don't know what this is, it's basically the state testing website for California students.
The website won't let you log in, and it has online textbooks that your teachers don't even make you use once, so it's pretty pointless.
The games are so poorly coded, and teachers don't even use the other 50% of this so-called app. It's more like rotten trash.
The videos don't make much sense, and the quizzes are very off-topic. You really need to listen to pass these assignments.
The books weren't exciting, and the quizzes were very annoying. Didn't teach me anything.
Terrible. The quests were boring.
It's trash. There are spelling errors everywhere, the math can be wrong, and worst of all, it came from a book, so a lot of the text from the book gets cut off. I remember one time the instructions on the website said, "In exercises 13-1." It got cut off! It was ridiculously dumb.
It is not fast-paced, but it is easy if you understand math class too.
The staff members of my school use this stupid website to block basically anything video-game-related. The only exceptions I've found are most Wikia Fandom pages and a website called Yandex Games. Everything on YouTube relating to video games is blocked.
You had to read at a certain pace, and you couldn't put it higher or lower sometimes. Also, the stories don't help you, and the vocabulary is very difficult as most of the time all of the options are wrong. Even my teacher struggled with some.
Reflex Math puts me under so much pressure! Don't even get me started on Coach Penny. She wastes time and puts pressure on kids. The games are fun, but they don't give enough time.
Some schools use this to torture students during class.
I've used this in 6th grade, and it is not great.