Personally I dont see the point in it. Im 23 now, sitting on a BTEC as a software developer with the potential to go to Cambridge Uni of all places. I slacked off horribly in school and avoided homework like a plague rat and I did ok.
As far as I'm concerned the homework system is somewhat idiotic.
They get from 9-4 to teach the kids, this is effectively the same as a 9-5 job.
Dont know about you but when I finish working at 5 I dont feel the need to go home and spent about 3 hours doing something I just left behind which I consider to be monotonous, a chore and frankly a necessary evil.
In my eyes the people who put the curriculum together are just ineffective at their job or are attempting to cram too much info into not enough time therefore infringing on the free time of kids who could use that time to develop critical social skills OUTSIDE of the uniforms and overly stern teachers.
They should stream line the subjects so as to make them efficient and therefore not a waste of the kids free time. As a kid I remember I would get home from school around 5pm, eat and then get forced to do those bloody assignments. This would eat away 1-2 hours of my precious free time before Bed time at 9, meaning In total I get about 2 hours to myself when Im not at school.
Thats a massive expectation of humans whose main focus is pokémon, avoiding the cooties and Cartoons. Its like the government / schools dont even realise they are dealing with young people, instead they treat them like caged animals who need to be whipped into usefulness for the greater good of society at the expense of the kids happiness.
Dont get me wrong, getting educated is the most critical thing a person can do, I just think that the schools shouldnt penalise the kids for their own poor time management by stacking the teachers responsibilities onto the kids after hours. Those teachers go home and forget about the school because its their 9-5, the kids get lumbered with excessive amounts of crap as a result.
Being 100% honest, I lied, cheated and faked 90% of my homework assignments. I would copy shit wholesale out of books and by the time I handed in the paper I couldnt tell the teacher what the hell was on there. Not as an act of rebellion or being a big deal, it was down to the simple fact that I found the task so boring I did everything I could to scam my way through it so as to get on with what I wanted and Yes as a kid you are that single minded.
I learnt more about the world in 1 year of travelling and developing my own interests and fascinations than I learnt in 5 years of school. I have a deep interest in history but all I got taught in school was "The Tudors, Stewarts and WW2" Like I give a shit about the most boring eras of history and WW2.
I remember aksing in my history classes if we were ever going to study INTERESTING cultures such as the Byzantium, Aztec / Mextec and other such interesting stuff to which i got told to shut up and get back to work because apperently learning about the Stewards was far more important to someone who clearly didnt give 2 shits about the subject.
So As I said, I learnt a lot more about the things I genuinely care about outside of school based on my own curious nature and ability to research subjects via the net or in books.
I have a well rounded understanding of the various sciences, world history, cultures, religions and Written / Spoke English (dont call me on my grammer here its the internet and Im slacking off) so much so that I am even writing my own book.
Short Story:
Homework is the product of an inefficient government who is simply unloading their failures onto a voiceless sect of society.
