See I always thought homework was full of way too much busy-work myself. Sure, in some classes larger projects made sense, to teach/show you how to assemble skills together over a period of time. In others it was just do this because this class is stupidly easy and we have to at least pretend you did some work for the grade.

The article seems to talk specifically about math homework though, since that was my "favorite" subject and I ended up with a math minor in college as well I did my share of that. Well, sort of. The thing about math homework is it's supposed to help you learn and understand concepts. You know, we talked about this in class today, go home and try it, and tomorrow we will go over your questions. My thought is math homework should always be assigned but not be required or graded in any way. I got to the point by 9th grade or so that I just turned in whatever I had, didn't care if it was only 15% complete. I'd just make it up on the test. Teachers hated that but back then they weren't so entitled feeling that they'd call up parents over that stuff.

Though at times it felt like a crutch to people that didn't understand things. At the beginning of the year they'd give spiel about how if you do all the homework it won't even be graded for correctness and it's enough to keep you from failing. That's a really bad idea with math since everything builds on previous years, but most of those teachers were lazy and no good at actually teaching anyway.