Homework

I don't think all homework is useless, I really don't. The difficult part is that there are two types of students--those who try and those who don't--but teachers are limited to giving just one type of assignment to both types of students. For a student who tries, most homework assignments will probably help them learn. For a student who doesn't try, no amount of homework is going to help them succeed. Do you see the problem?

The other issue, I believe, is that some teachers don't understand the point of homework, they just know that it needs to be assigned, which brings me to my personal definition of homework: work that either a) has little value, because the teacher can't see the distinction what is helpful and what honestly isn't, or b) has quite a bit of value, but could have easily been assigned and finished during class, thus allowing students to--I don't know--have actual lives.