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I find it pitiful that the answers generally fell into two categories:

1. Homeschool

or

2. Stop whining and put up with it.

Neither one is very democratic, and begs a question:

This is only of a few who has chosen to speak up, and state that homework is unreasonable for man (most?) public school students. Homework is not the panacea, and it is not the solution to sagging scores, UNLESS the student is not achieving much in school. THOSE students (the under-achievers) probably are not going to learn more at home, because their parents probably cannot (or will not) help them much at home. So, a person speaks up and is given two NON choices.

Why isn't a choice or a suggestion proposed such as below?

Across our nation, district(s) or teacher(s) need to consider altering the amount or type of homework.

It is an absolutely serious matter, because the masses are suffering under the public education 'rule'. Without reasonable answers for the many (many will never homeschool for a multitude of reasons), the masses will suffer. If the masses suffer, so will the nation. We, as a nation, will pay for the poor education which is built upon burdensome unreasonable homework.

"Across our nation, district(s) or teacher(s) need to consider altering the amount or type of homework."

With all due respect, how about teaching the children when IN school instead of sending it home? When my girls were in school, they had learned everything about Kwanzaa, learned songs about Hanukkah, celebrated Earth day, collected aluminum can tabs for recycling, and learned a little Spanish.

But Math, English, and Reading were sent home as homework.

When you tire of fighting the PTA and the NEA, you take it into your own hands. Democratic doesn't work here, I do not have enough years of educating my children to fight the system. Therefore, I and many others will continue to pull out until the public education system wakes itself up.

I understand what you are saying, but to be honest I haven't given it much thought re: amoutn/type of homework. I have not encountered such a problem. My daughter is doing both 1st and 2nd grade work and the level of homework has never been a problem.

Maybe my district/teachers have done something along the lines of your suggestions - my daughter comes home with her spelling and reading assignments for the week on Monday with deadlines for each thing (ABC order, sentences, study for spelling test) and 3 times a week she gets a math homework sheet. Aso on Monday the curricula for the week comes home fromt he 1st grade teacher which has suggestions for family projects to go along with some thing they are going to be working on in class.