Uh, how does hours of homework help, exactly????

This article was the Times Daily. It shocks me that they can find someone who is a parent who says that their kids have homework every night, sometimes That is all they have time for, and still say that it is a good thing. There is a principle in this article that I very much respect in this aspect. He says that kids need to be allowed to have time to be kids. Wow, if they all felt that maybe our school systems would not be in such sorry shape.