What an interestingly brain dead take
Not everything can be taught in a classroom. Teachers are overworked enough as it is.
Assigning work to be done outside of school not only allows for self-guided revision, but also reinforcing what was learnt that day/week hours/days later.
I beg to differ. While there certainly are skills that can be honed by training, homework beyond elementary school in general is useless. Either you understood the subject or you didn't. If you understood, repetition will make you what? Understand it again? And if you didn't understand the subject at school with an "expert" at hand, chances are high, you will not understand it at home on your own.
It’s not repetition, it’s reinforcing. Learning a language is the best example. You need to refresh the information in your mind to retain it.
The point of homework is not to learn new things, but to revise on your own. Once again, teachers do not have enough hours in the day/semester to effectively teach.
I will say that American curriculums suck ass tho. And that’s not the teachers’ fault
Not just America and I don't blame teachers. I'm just saying you'd be right in an ideal world. But that's not how homework is used in the real world and dismissing this joke as brain dead is just as simplistic. At least where I live, homework is used to cover everything that has to be taught according to the curriculum but couldn't be taught due to staff shortages and an ever growing curriculum.
Not everything can be taught in a classroom. Teachers are overworked enough as it is.
Assigning work to be done outside of school not only allows for self-guided revision, but also reinforcing what was learnt that day/week hours/days later.
The point of homework is not to learn new things, but to revise on your own. Once again, teachers do not have enough hours in the day/semester to effectively teach.
I will say that American curriculums suck ass tho. And that’s not the teachers’ fault