Here's one of the issues and as you can tell I have a big issue with homework, especially for preschoolers. Your valuable free time with your child is being taken up with doing homework. This isn't a subject that you've chosen but the school, the state, the government. Your free time should be yours and your child's, free to play and have fun. This is social conditioning and control and it starts at such a young age now. Obviously home education (or freedom education, a bit like freedom money) is the answer but not everyone is in a position to home educate.