Yeah, not a fan of homework. Unfinished work, readers and I guess learning something like spelling by the end of the week or something like that would be ok, as well as the odd research assignment. But I'm certainly not looking forward to hours of homework being brought home!

My brother was pulled up on the quality of his DS's homework (this in in like 1st grade or something!) because my bro had actually encouraged his DS to do most of it himself.. so of course it looked like something a 1st grader would produce. But of course all the other parents had helped their kids and they were handing in all these beautifully presented assignments... obviously done by the parents! and so theirs wasn't up to scratch! Think he had a firm word with the teacher about it. Don't know what the outcome was tho..

There is probably a lot of underlying fear of children falling behind or being disadvantaged if not achieving high grades on these assignments. I dunno.. But I agree it seems the parents have a lot to do with homework expectations!

I was hopeless at doing my homework and hardly studied at highschool, and I managed to get through quite well! I often wonder how well I could actually have done had I applied myself a bit more LOL.

A bit off topic, but I don't like the idea of exams either.. perhaps that could be another thread.. except I don't have oodles of articles to quote on that.. just my opinion LOL.