I'm glad I popped into this thread. It's given me some great ideas for helping my eldest DSS (almost 13) with homework compliance.

Last year he was in year 7. We had a great relationship with his home room teacher, and we would ask him every single night if he had homework. His reply more often than not, was "no". He would tell us he either finished it in class, or that he wasn't given any. Then we got his end of year report and almost every single class report mentioned his failure to hand in homework, grrrrr! When we confronted him he basically admitted to lying all semester about homework. We basically told him to enjoy his school holidays, because next year (this year now) we were going to be very strict with homework. We've already hold him that if he tells us he has no homework then he only gets 1 hour of electronic entertainment for the night (playstation/computer etc). If he has homework, then once he completes it he can go nuts on the electronics as long as he can prove to us that he's finished the homework and that it's an appropriate standard.

I love the idea about asking his teachers if they can email us his homework though! We haven't found out his home room teacher yet, or what teachers he has for classes, but we'll have to make an appointment with his home room teacher as soon as we find out.

Sorry to hijack your thread! I hope things improve for you a little this year