Homework

So in media studies we were talking about the amount of homework students receive and how it's really way too much to even learn anything from. The amount of homework we get in high school is ineffective and doesn't do anything. It's stupid, useless busy work most of the time and when it isn't you know it isn't. But 99% of the time it's going to be busy work. For example, in Chinese we practice saying the new words in a new unit for about a week. and then at the end of that week, we have to call someone and practice again, the same thing we do everyday in class for a week. I think schools need to seriously change the way they run the homework system, it needs to be changed into something that's actually effective. I think if classes were just in general more interesting and tried to strike nerves with the students and try to emotionally connect, they would see a huge improvement in grades.