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I think the article is referring to middle school. I’m not for massive amounts of homework before that time. I don’t remember elementary school, but I’m sure I had regular homework assignments in both middle school and high school. I finished it very quickly but my siblings and many of my classmates took longer.</p>
<p>We also managed to play, do chores, and participate in various activities. And believe it or not, we did not always spend our time in important, meaningful activites. If we had them, I’m sure we woudl have poent a lot of it on video games, or tried to.</p>
<p>And I distinctly remeber my parents telling me I had much less homework than they did. In fact, my dad who went to Catholic schookl actually saved a lot of his and woukd pull out reams of it in case one of us started to complain.</p>
<p>I will admit my own kid was loaded earlier with a lot more busywork. But that still doesn’t mean meaningful out of class assignments are not beneficial.</p>