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Exactly. I especially hate it when you haven’t had a big assignment in a while and a break is just about to come and the teacher assigns a massive project over the break. They’ll be able to hang out and enjoy their time off while you’re working your butt off to get that huge project in before the due date the day you get back. Its infuriating about the amount of teachers who plan so poorly and respect your time so little
I agree, if a high-school class requires hours and hours of homework a night, they need an overhaul of their curriculum or systems of teaching. Work smarter, not harder. >

Exactly. I especially hate it when you haven’t had a big assignment in a while and a break is just about to come and the teacher assigns a massive project over the break. They’ll be able to hang out and enjoy their time off while you’re working your butt off to get that huge project in before the due date the day you get back. Its infuriating about the amount of teachers who plan so poorly and respect your time so little >

Don’t blame teachers too much for it, they don’t choose the curriculum, they often don’t have much choice in things like assignments and work load. >

Sure but they can definitely allocate time to have less homework. They do have some flexibility in their schedule as well, but I think the worst is some teacher’s laziness in grading assignments or updating grades. 
I’ve had assignments that we’d submit at the beginning of the semester and weren’t graded until the end. It’s difficult to know what grade you need to get on the final or how you should plan your final days of school when you have absolutely no idea what your grade is. 
It’s part of their job to grade, and hearing them complain about them having to do so is downright annoying. >

What do you think the purpose of homework is? >

To expand on previous knowledge or study for upcoming exams. If a teacher teaches something and wants you to understand that material a bit better, then assign homework (30 min max). It should never be used to teach itself, only as a way to help teach. >

Are they assigning 4+ hours of homework? Or does it just take you 4+ hours to complete whatever they assign? >

No, they really are assigning that much work. I’m taking as many Honors classes that are available and have consistently been able to keep all As but the amount of time that it takes no only me, but all my friends to complete the work being assigned, especially in English, is insane. >

The only homework that should legally exist are projects and studies you just can't do in school.
In one class we had the project of building model concentration camps.   Oh, it was controversial, but the result is that if someone asked me to help build a real one he would receive an immediate and painful answer to the effect of "no".  I have thought about it and know my answer, so unlike others, I won't be caught off guard if given an evil order from above.
Anyway, we could not really do that at school using our own ideas for materials and such.
I did all my written and reading homework at lunch and on the bus rides to and from school.   I just refused to do it at home.  I missed a few deadlines, but school is the place to study unless there is a hard, provable reason to do it at home...such as absences.
I think I can just barely admit this as unpopular....since homework is still common place.  But many people do disagree with homework. >

I agree, if a high-school class requires hours and hours of homework a night, they need an overhaul of their curriculum or systems of teaching. Work smarter, not harder.