I absolutely refused to do homework as a child. For me it was wildly unfair that I was forced to sit still for a full day in class and then be expected to spend my free time doing homework as well. It drove my teachers crazy because I would get some of the highest scores in the class on my exams but get 0s for homework grades, so I was a B student. Then I got to college, where I was only expected to sit still for 1-3 hours a day, so homework seemed fair to me. I ended up with a 3.9 GPA and managed to transfer to a really great school.

I tutor high school kids now and it absolutely horrifies me how certain schools overwhelm their students with homework. One school here in particular gives kids so much homework that they have to study until 10 pm every night, and that doesn't take extracurriculars into consideration. If they're expected to get their homework done I have to "help" them much more than I'd usually be comfortable with because we don't have the time to dwell on and work out problems, and if we were to really untangle things, they'd be too intellectually exhausted to finish the assignment.