I know this sounds like a joke, but homework is lowkey child torture, especially in households where parents aren’t great at teaching.
And if “homework isn’t that much work, idiot” then they should just do that in school, like all the other learning. Slap another hour onto school, and everyone would be happier.
@Riedler Throwing in my two cents: for a brief period, I was in a school that had no homework, as long as you got your work done during school hours (which was trivial). No lectures, just a list of stuff to do, a pile of books, and a teacher who would explain anything you got stuck on, one-on-one.
Virtually nobody ever had any homework (in fact people usually had time left!), the hours were not any different from other schools, and even the test scores were extremely high.
In short, you don't even need the extra hour. You just need a sensible schedule for the day.
@Riedler (This was a special education school, which was the only reason they were even legally allowed to do this under NL law; it also meant that just about every learning disability under the sun was present among the students, and *still* everyone did great.)
