less homework the better?

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I was referring to the idea that homework shouldn't start as early and often as 1st grade. Yeah, by the time you're taking social studies and reading whole books, homework can gradually be introduced. But not hours of it in the primary grades.
My son gets the same dittoes handed to him to do over at home and it's a factor in his disruptive behavior at school, "this is boooring!"

I was transferred to a large enough highschool to choose some of my classes. So, there was an interest factor in English and social studies. It really helped. Later in college, I always took an elective along with my general ed, then my major.

Yes, we homeschool after several miserable years with public school. Homework, IMO, is just the inability of the public school system to actually teach our children. As parents, we many times need to interpret what the teacher wants our child to do. Then, we need to find a way to help our child succeed. In most cases it is just useless repetition or catch-up work that should have been done in class when you are talking about the lower elementary grades. By high school and college, yes, homework is an actual extension of in-class learning. I've watched two children grow up through the public school system and pulled a third before they could continue abusing him and nothing has changed in the last 20 or more years. Elementary school "homework" is either a teacher's inability to teach or monkey work to reinforce concepts that many children should have learned while at school.