Some schools have parents mad because their child has ‘too much homework’. The school board won’t defend the curriculum, lest a parent be made to feel ignorant. So the teacher is told to ‘adjust the requirements’. Unspoken is the end of the request ‘If you want to keep your job”.
How do they get out of high school, out of middle school, without reading a book for English or history?
When I went to college in the early ‘70’s, I ran into public school kids (shoot me, I went to a prep school) who never had to write a paper. That’s pretty bad, but never having read a book? What kind of classes do they take to even get into college?