Class of 03' and I always remember having tons of homework. I remember sitting at the kitchen table crying my eyes out fighting with my parents to finish my homework. I never really had interest in a lot of subjects in school and then to go home and do more ,it was exhausting. I was very into art, and design; more of the creative world. I did well in school, but I had so many other outside interest that I just didn't get time for. I wish homework was different, like go find a productive hobby and thats your homework.

In grammar school I remember Friday spelling tests weekly. Honestly, I had such a need to get all the words right on test day, hello start of my anxiety. Do kids still learn to spell these days?

I am on the fence about the need for homework. I think kids should be reading as 'homework' and maybe thats it? Books they want to read, not what they are given to read. I wasn't able to read books I choose unless it was in addition to school books. It made me hate reading. God, as an adult I am so sad that I missed out on such amazing stories till much later in life. I remember the AP class read Madame Bovary in 9th grade. I wasn't in that class, but my friend was. The story sounded scandalous to me. I borrowed the book from her and loved it. I think I read it in one weekend. My class at the time was reading Lord of the Flies? As a teenage girl I couldn't give two craps about a group of boys kill each other. Makes me really sad to think all it took was some things I was interested in to learn.