[jstarfish]

I'm no fan of homework, but under the status quo there's no other time for reinforcement learning besides after school.

Using myself as an example-- being terminally-obstinate I simply didn't do the homework and accepted the grade hits. The real damage came from how quickly I got left behind in classes, since the only things covered in class were new topics that built on the old ones...from elementary school all the way through college.

This ties into:

> No wonder kids are stressed.

I think the curriculum is the problem. The above was my own experience decades ago, but I see what my own kids are learning now, and in which grades, and cannot fathom functioning at that level at that age. It's too much, too fast, with no room for failure and for no discernible purpose.