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Nothing wrong with homework if it involves a big project or a concept the child doesn't properly understand and the teacher is assigning extra 'practice' to help.

But the teachers that lecture for the whole 90 min block period, and then assign multiple assignments in the last 5 min that need to be completed the next day are ridiculous. Interestingly enough, the classes I did the best in were the ones that didn't require much homework outside of big stuff, and allowed for the students to work together during class hours on the work. Weekly tests for marks were done on the topics, and then essays after the subject matter was over. All the work during class hours as a rule wasn't for marks. Some kids took advantage of that obviously, but most kids would work together in their small groups on the classroom work, and because of that they were able to balance the work out between the collection of students. Some kids are better at this, some are better than that. The result was you picked up a concept much better than you would working on it at home and having to rely on your parents for help. Our grade 11/12 physics class were run like that, and every single student did pretty good in a really tough course. By a long shot the most rewarding class I've ever been in, and I actually finished with decent marks despite not being a good math student. I credit that 100% on the fact that I was able to get help from the smart 'math' students I was able to work on the questions with, and didn't have to just rely on the teachers for every concept I didn't understand. When you have a class of 25 students, and 10 of them struggle with certain stuff the teacher simply doesn't have enough for 1 on 1 work with all 10 kids. But if you assign smart kids to work together with not so smart kids, the results are great. Obviously the kids need to be able to work together, but after 10 years of going to school together our group got along just fine. Just an absolutely great class. Enjoyed every single minute of it.