Yes, true. Though I confess that I'm not really in love with the idea that a person should just do whatever dumb thing they're told by whatever authority figure tells them. I'm not a big fan of sheeple, even for young kids. There's a difference between respecting authority and allowing one's self to be disrespected by it.
Too, I suppose I'm really coming at it from a different perspective, since one of the reasons we're homeschooling was that *I* couldn't stand how much useless homework DS7 was bringing home. Hours of it! At age 6! And not one bit of it useful or necessary!
We spend about as much time on school now as we used to spend just on homework--after 7 hours of school!--and he's actually LEARNING stuff! The whole homework enterprise just seemed like a humongous waste of time to me.
<shrug>
I know I'm in the minority on this particular opinion of mine. I'm okay with that.
