And did you succeed in completing it?
I was inspired by the ‘horrible teachers’ thread to think of a number of WTAF homework tasks:
Being asked as a 12 year old (pre internet with nothing but a Children’s Britannica, a titchy branch library and some newspapers which may or may not have reached the bin), What are all the national airlines of the EEC? With livery. Less unreasonably I suppose, the same teacher also wanted us to list all the members of the 1979 (then current) Cabinet, with jobs. I still remember how difficult and stressful it was even trying to get that information. I was used to everything being in books!
For my DCs the worst one was arranging a visit to the sights of a local town and doing a project on it. It was a miserable wet day, they hated the whole thing and I did all the work on it. A total performance parenting project which smacked of ‘we can’t afford this school outing so we’ll make the parents do it.’
And a maths question for then 9 year old DD, which was presumably to test her thinking methods, but appeared to involve some form of algebra which they would not have gone anywhere near, and served only to puzzle and embarrass her. Class teacher objected so strongly to being questioned by DH about this that she refused to work with DH for the rest of the year.