![]() ![]() ![]() Whether or not homework helps, or even hurts, depends on who you ask. However the drama unfolds night after night, year after year, most parents hold on to the hope that homework (after soccer games, dinner, flute practice, and, oh yes, that childhood pastime of yore known as playing) advances their children academically.īut what does homework really do for kids? Is the forest’s worth of book reports and math and spelling sheets the average American student completes in her 12 years of primary schooling making a difference? Or is it just busywork? Homework haterz Then come the tears and tantrums - while we parents wonder, Does the gain merit all this pain? Is this just too much homework? The paper on the Battle of Waterloo seems to have frozen in time with Napoleon lingering eternally over his breakfast at Le Caillou. ![]() The pages of polynomials have been abandoned. It’s 10:15 p.m., and the cardboard-and-toothpick Golden Gate Bridge is collapsing. ![]()
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