I'm sorry, I didn't mean at school. I meant for school, meaning home work as well. I don't enjoy when my children get busy work, but in every day life, they will both be faced with work that isn't stimulating or worth their time. They may be in a job that it is required to do such. I don't believe in teaching them that they only have to do that which I, as their parent, see as beneficial.
We may have to agree to disagree. I don't believe in seeing school work, in or out of school, as something the child is doing for the teacher. Setting the work is something the teacher is doing for the child. Its being done is of no benefit to the teacher. If it isn't of benefit to the child, it shouldn't be being done.
I strongly dislike the "they'll be bored in everyday life" argument, because I see it as fundamentally off the point. In adult life, they will probably never do anything that is of no benefit to
anybody. Possibly there are some jobs where there's no point in an employee thinking about whether what they're doing is of benefit to anybody, where it's best just to do what one's told, mindlessly. However, I think those jobs are rare (in fact I can't think of one, off hand) and even if they exist, I doubt that any of our children are going to those jobs.
As a university teacher, I wish more students did arrive from school with the attitude that it's their job to make sure they only spend their learning time on things that help them learn - students who want staff to take responsibility for what they spend their time on are problem students who have to be trained out of this bad habit.
