I've been a high school physics teacher for nine years, and I still go back and forth on whether homework actually helps students learn or just burns everyone out. Last semester, I tried cutting homework to only practice problems done in class, and test scores barely moved, but my students seemed less stressed. Now I'm wondering if the real value of homework is just building discipline rather than deepening understanding of the material. Do you think traditional homework is still necessary for learning, or is it mostly a relic from a time when students had fewer distractions at home?