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Education is important, reviewing previously learned stuff is important...but homework does absolutely create a situation where kids are spending unbounded time outside of school on schoolwork. Practically, it's way the fuck too much. IMO school time, like work time, should be bounded.

I do want the Wall-E chairs, but I would never actually accept them. It's like how I want a 20-liter bucket of fettuccine Alfredo, but I would never accept and eat one.

Unfortunately, if you work in the US, you are salaried (i.e. paid a fixed wage, not by hours worked) and make more than $684 per week (which would be very hard to survive on), the concept of overtime basically doesn't exist.

My company could order me tomorrow to work 80 hours next week and there's not much I could really do about that.

If you live in a state where employment is "at-will" or "right-to-work" (which is actually the opposite of what it sounds like), they can just get rid of you without cause.

I am lucky to have a boss who functions as a shield from all bullshit coming from above him. I refer to him jokingly as our "shit-shield" haha. He regularly goes to bat for us, but most people are not so lucky.

I'd say that I probably "work" more hours from home. At work if I get so tired I zone out and am fighting to stay conscious, that cycle of trying to stay awake, trying to focus, going for a walk, getting coffee, can all put a 2 or 3 hr whole in my day. At home, I will set a 15min timer on my phone and then go crash on the couch (just comfortable enough for a nap, but not for a long sleep). Even on rare days when I am really wrecked, after 45 min I am ready to focus and get back to work. Additionally, since I don't have a deadline to beat traffic, and I take naps whenever I need, if I am focused and in the flow, I don't just stop working at the end of the day. I ride that focus and flow to its natural fall off. Whereas if I am commuting, when my alarm goes off, I am done and out of the building like a god damn ninja.

Too bad more often than not the kids that actually do homework do it only if their parents sit down with them every night to do it together

This is 100% true. I was fantastic at school. I could read the book and just remember it all when it came time for class and crushed every q&a, quiz, assessment or test offered to us at every stage.

When I got to college I found the hardest part to be committing to the work since so little of it could be done in class. I still did pretty okay in college because most of it seemed to just be an assessment of what you knew and could do in the moment, but I definitely struggled with time management having never built up the skills necessary to study or knuckle down for a couple of days to cram.

Where it hit most was with foreign language and computer science classes. My Japanese is shit, but I was able to fall back on my obsession with electronics to make a career out of computer science.

I got really fucking lucky I think, because I did well in school but I was not very good at it. I know plenty of people that didn't get the GPA I did or have all AP classes that are currently doing extremely well for themselves because they learned one of the more important skills you can learn in school, discipline.

When I was in the equivalent of grade school, I always forgot to do my homework, so it never mattered to me how much homework the teacher set 😅

More importantly, homework teaches responsibility and self-accountability as well as time management. I hated it, I got through school without ever doing it, and I had to learn these things later on to my own detriment. But I had massive problems with authority caused by emotional incest from my mother, so it took a lot of work to re-parent myself into a successful person who could follow rules and realize they were sometimes there to help me.

You are assuming an ideal case where the homework is challenging enough and meets the student where they're at. That is quite a rare educational experience IMO. There also has to be the right amount, so that students are working and getting that practice without getting burnt out. More often homework is "busy-work", or doesn't go hand in hand with lessons, and there's way too much of it. I've even seen it used as punishment or retribution.

Clearly OP didn't do enough homeworks

I mean that's true except most kids (and probably their parents) also don't know the "more optimal way" that suits the kid and will just opt to do less work. Most people are pretty bad at learning and retention as evidenced by, well, talking to people in public.

You could make the argument that that people got that away because teachers don't get "optimal learning" either, which is a position I would support. However, I don't think kids and parents choosing "always do less" is gonna fix it.