Our school district has a policy that homework should be 10 minutes per grade--so a first grader should have 10 minutes, and a 3rd grader should have 30 minutes, and so on. Or no more than that, at least. By that logic, a senior in high school should have two hours of homework. This seems reasonable to me, insofar as homework is necessary at all. They seem to give homework every night except Fridays--at least some little thing to do, no matter what it is. No homework on weekends, at least so far.
We ignored a lot of the homework in first grade, with the teacher's blessing--I'm not going to have him sitting around coloring or working on two-letter spelling words. This year I'll probably just give him extra things to do if there's nothing worthwhile.
