I agree, and can we have a discussion in general about homework being included in the grade in general? It's purpose is to help students learn the material, which should be reflected on the test.
If the student can perform well on the test without that, then they shouldn't be forced to do it and penalized when they don't(which you can imagine happens often, as if the student understand the material well enough already the homework is just useless busywork.
If the student can't perform well on the test without that, they will be forced to do the homework. In this case, including homework as part of the grade might be detrimental because they can cheat/copy/us AI to complete homework and boost their grade enough to pass while not understanding the material well enough to pass the tests.
The counter-argument here(that I can think of) is that doing homework, even if - or especially if - it's just easy busywork for the student, prepares them for the future where such tasks will almost always be necessary to succeed. A lot of good learners end up not developing this skill/discipline because they aren't forced to work hard in school, which causes them to fail when faced with tasks/problems that require serious effort, and this would arguably make things more difficult for them. In my opinion this problem would be better addressed by funneling kids into classes that are appropriately challenging for them rather than forcing them to do busywork, but that's a much more difficult thing to do, and also learning to complete easy/"useless" busywork is a related but different skill than learning to focus on and complete challenging tasks
If the student can perform well on the test without that, then they shouldn't be forced to do it and penalized when they don't(which you can imagine happens often, as if the student understand the material well enough already the homework is just useless busywork.
If the student can't perform well on the test without that, they will be forced to do the homework. In this case, including homework as part of the grade might be detrimental because they can cheat/copy/us AI to complete homework and boost their grade enough to pass while not understanding the material well enough to pass the tests.
The counter-argument here(that I can think of) is that doing homework, even if - or especially if - it's just easy busywork for the student, prepares them for the future where such tasks will almost always be necessary to succeed. A lot of good learners end up not developing this skill/discipline because they aren't forced to work hard in school, which causes them to fail when faced with tasks/problems that require serious effort, and this would arguably make things more difficult for them. In my opinion this problem would be better addressed by funneling kids into classes that are appropriately challenging for them rather than forcing them to do busywork, but that's a much more difficult thing to do, and also learning to complete easy/"useless" busywork is a related but different skill than learning to focus on and complete challenging tasks