After reading the article I'm still torn on where to stand. School systems are under siege from parents and bureaucrats and the teachers are caught in the middle. What is the optimal amount of homework? Who benefits from rote work? If your a professor or college educated, chances are your children are in a better position, intellectually, than someone that never graduated highschool. Rote work probably won't for your kids, but might be necessary to someone else's kid. Most schools don't make a delineation between the have/have nots. So giving someone more work, and others less would create a different scandal.

I applaud Dr. Cockshutt's involvement with her kids work but there are a lot more parents that are only concerned about the reports that come at the end of the semester. Paying no attention to what's going on, currently. These are the majority of parents. But really, it's about the teachers covering their ass. That way when some parent pleads ignorance about their kid failing teacher can point to every paper that was signed by said parent.