In fact, forget about that too. Just skip the whole school thing altogether. That learning stuff is just so old fashioned and outdated now by the new age, feelgood, "everyone is a winner" stuff anyway.
Just give them all A's... No, better yet, give them all those little grad caps with the tassels and they'll feel really super about themselves.
Ya' know? We could sure save a lot of money instead of wasting it on teachers and classrooms that don't want to teach anything but dopey reading and counting numbers and all that.
They'll figure everything out on their own eventually anyway, right?
Clearly your opinion is the minority opinion. Even in the hallowed conservative halls of the Free Republic.
In early grades I considered most homework a waste of time. Even in my high school years (and I went to a good private high school), a good portion of what was assigned did nothing to help a student actually learn the material that was taught in class.
I have an advanced degree, a professional license, and I think I've been pretty successful in my career. I'll tell you here that what I learned outside of school was far more important than what I learned in the classroom and in my homework assignments.
Incredible...you have just described the NYC schools' philosophy. "Do things that LOOK like we're educating the students so we can't be blamed for their eventual failure." Teachers are constantly actively threatened by the administration for giving honest grades or in many cases, for documenting student absences, misbehaviors, or non-completion of work, so most just fall in and go along with passing students whose averages are in the 40s or even less. The NYC Bored of Ed is simply a criminal organization with City letterhead.