[DesertRhino]

Exactly. If a child was locked in a closet every moment they weren’t at school, but a teacher has them 8 hours a day. They should be able to well educate that child.
Most homework today is the teachers showing they are “doing something”.
Its also the government controlling your home life all evening.

[Alberta's Child]

When I think back over my middle-school and high school years, I remember homework as something that bored me to tears and didn't do anything to prepare me for a professional career. There are three things from that period in my life that were far more important, and which wouldn't have been possible if I had to do 3-4 hours of homework every day:

1. Casual reading (anything, really -- except what was assigned to me at school)
2. Working an after-school job
3. Watching contractors at work on construction sites near where I lived, and during the summers when the family was on vacation

[elpadre]

In my younger days I taught math in high school. There is no way for a student to learn, to master the concepts without doing homework to practice and internalize the material that will help them in their life ahead - not just knowing the math but using the discipline learned in other phases of life as well. Ditto - history, English composition and literature, civics, etc..

And you don’t have the kid 8 hours a day. Most teachers have them for an hour a day, some for three. If you want educated people you must work at it - demand it.

[manc]

Many teachers just give out useless homework to show parents that their kids did nothing , only to find that those teachers during the day did nothing and passed their job into parents.