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Maybe university has changed. When I went, I had weekly physics and math assignments that were done at home and were graded. I had pre and post lab work that had to be done and were graded. I had papers that had to be done at home and were graded. I had readings that had to be done and I was tested on whether or not they were completed.
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Those are assignments, which are different from homework. Homework would be like "make sure you do the problems in chapter 5 of your book" and if you didn't , you were probably screwed for the next lecture because the prof would move on and you didn't even understand step 1.
Some students could pick everything up they needed to from the lecture with no need to do those problems. Others needed to spend hours working on it. But that's a decision for the student to make. In this case, the parents are helping their kids make that decision too.