Is Homework Beneficial?

[FlyingJesus]

I used to just do my homework in lessons if at all, it was hardly ever something I'd actually do at home. If anything it was something I said I was doing at home so I could be on the computer playing Habbo...

For me I think the bigger issue isn't whether you should make kids do more work outside of school hours, but whether it's fair and reasonable to expect them all to be able to. When you're in school, those 7 hours or so a day are a leveller where it doesn't matter so much what your background is or what material possessions you have; everyone is in the same building with more-or-less the same stuff doing more-or-less the same thing, adjusted for skill sets etc of course. The massive majority of families do have internet access and such these days but even so once you send the kids back home there's a huge gulf in privileges, whether it's due to literally not having the equipment to make the work easy (or even doable) or because 1 child from a class has to do a load of care work when they get home while another in the same class is forced to study by their parents and yet another is left to their own devices and just plays games. Home life will always have some effect on school life, but if as much of the negatives of that can be eliminated as possible then that can only be a good thing

[Empired]

I think the majority of the time, kids who can do their homework don't need to (because they can already do it) and the kids who can't do their homework don't do it anyway. So what's the point?