Seriously, think a bit more about what you wrote. My wife is Asian, and culturally she feels that education is a child's key to a good life. So, on top of their school homework, my children got an additional two hours a night of homework from private "extra" education.

Did it work? One is in medical school, and one is college studying computer science. Bottom-line, public-school teachers which don't assign homework are holding their students back, but their actions are not going to impact those students of parents who understand the value of education.

Ben Carson's mother was illiterate, but she made her children read books and write book reports on them and it was years before Ben Carson realized his mother couldn't read their reports. He ended up becoming a world renown Pediatric cardiologist.

My brother operates a charter school in Jersey City whose students are largely children of color from poor families who match the performance of upper-class suburban families by emphasizing more time in school and more homework.

If your point is, it is hard to be a single parent or a two-parent family where both parents work, you are correct. But unless you want your children growing up unable to compete for the best jobs, the answer is not "no homework". As an aside, my African American grandchildren began taking online college courses in 8th grade during the summer with the goal of finishing high school with one year of college complete. But taking those classes, also makes regular high school classes a breeze.

Bottom line, they are not competing against your children, they are competing against their counterparts all over the world. And so, while it would be nice to let children be children, the world simply is not geared that way and so the next best option is to give your children the best chance to succeed in life.