To think there should be no homework at the moment

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Live lessons all day every day is hard work, gor teachers and students. Often it proves impossible to get through the work in the time allocated, so my ds ends up finishing stuff in the afternoon anyway.
I think it's delusional to try and keep school going completely as if everything was normal - it's too much.

Yes that's nuts. All work is home work. But you can't please all the people all the time and I guess some people might want it? Should be clearly marked optional.

I am at work all day and the only way my son is getting an education from school is by him doing the homework in the evening after I finish work. If there was no homework he will have nothing from school.

I think it depends on the age of the child. My DC is year 10 so GCSEs being taken (hopefully!) next year. They should certainly be having to keep up with everything which means homework too.

Primary and year 7 and 8 should probably be cut some slack!

Yep, I am a mean mummy.....

I’m a secondary school teacher and I agree that homework should be kept to an absolute minimum at the moment. There are a few Y11 classes who sometimes get an extra task (but I try to avoid it) and I’ve been setting enrichment tasks for my sixth formers (reading around the subject, for example - stuff they should want to do if they’re interested, but which isn’t compulsory). Things are tough enough without us chasing homework.

I agree with the teacher above - homework for exam classes only and then only if needed.

Secondary teacher here. My expectation is that they finish off anything unfinished for homework. No specific homework set - I am setting an assignment each lesson to give a focus whereas in normal school there would be a lot more discussion. So no need for a homework assignment on top of that. It also gives an incentive - work hard and get this done during school hours or slack off during the lesson and have to do it in your own time. We are trying to keep kids motivated, self disciplined and stimulated - not overwhelmed with tasks.

Bit different for sixth form as they have online supervised study to do in free lessons so actually NEED direction of what to do while not in class.

I've just filled in a feedback form for DD's school (Yr10) and included her comment that any homework set shouldn't be online as she already spends 5+hours a day staring at her computer screen.

I only teach y10 upwards and I am setting homework. They need the consolidation in order to secure their knowledge. It's not just extra.

Our daughter in year 7 is getting homework as normal and seems to be fine with it. She doing 4 live lessons each day following her normal school timetable. She finishes at the same time she would have finished if in school but has more time as there’s no travelling so she’s fitting homework in easily. Class work always ends when the lesson finishes though so that’s not having to be done in her own time.
Our primary aged child isn’t getting much homework at all.
Our 17 year old is swamped with A level work, he’s having live lessons but he says there’re expected to do more than if they were in college and then they’re given homework on top.