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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a high school teacher. Homework is educationally useless. Reading, studying and working on essays and projects is plenty.

Busywork is not education. [/quote]

Math and foreign language homework are not useless at all. Neither are science labs / lab reports as homework. Good luck getting a kid into a STEM field without doing homework.[/quote]

I have a PhD in STEM and very rarely had homework in high school.  I also never took AP classes.  
I did have a lot of work outside of class time at university but I also was only in class for 4-6 hours a day.  My kid is at high school from 8:30-4:45.  
I have 30 peer reviewed publications so excessive homework in high school is not required for a STEM career.  My co-workers probably have very similar stories.

For most STEM careers, where you go to high school and undergrad doesn't really matter.  Where you go to grad school and the skills that you focus on there are FAR more important.  One of my most successful employees went to community college before heading to a state school to finish off her BS and MS.  [/quote]

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