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>Of course, you're only screwing yourself because you'll negatively impact your learning, but that's not something you can easily convince kids of.

This assumes that homework helps kids learn, or that the knowledge required to succeed in school will help kids once they graduate.






Depends on the homework, of course. In my head I guess I was talking about maths problems. Maths understanding, in my experience, greatly benefits from practice, and homework exercises might be useful there. Memorising the names of rivers ... maybe not so much.



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