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 does the opposite of preparing you for a job in that it utterly breaks your body and mind forever. we would all be better at jobs (not that it matters, but we'd be better at life too) if we hadn't spent like 15 years completely grinding down our health. Look at an adult around you, any adult, "functional" or not, look at yourself, and think about how unrealized their potentials are because of the school system. Nearly every adult participant of society is functioning at lesser capacity because... what? Why are we even pushing kids so hard that they break? What the fuck does this achieve??
Anyway sorry to be a downer I'm just very adamant about that subject. This is why when we address trauma we need to address it globally
