homework doesn't "prepare you for a job" it doesn't make you smarter, it just piles on like 20 assignments and teaches you that to be successful you have to be working ALL THE TIME without stopping. when I was a kid I cried because I couldn't do homework. I was made to feel like it was my fault for being lazy. in actual fact, I was being pushed too hard.
in a job, if you have 20 assignments all due the next week, something FUCKED UP big time in the production process and you should form a union immediately. if it happens in school, that's supposed to be "normal"
Homework is such absolute horseshit. I've made it very clear to my kids that I'm not remotely interested in making them do that shit. Obviously I want them to do well in life! But I'm not going to force them to play that game. The American education system is a misery factory, I don't want them to feel pressured to perform for it.
