No Homework Policy Have you ever wanted to just shred up your homework or throw it out of the window and have no consequences? Kids are assigned daily homework from the time they start kindergarten at the ripe young age of five. Is it really necessary? Does it help better learning or even higher test scores? The amount of homework we do wastes time, money, paper and trees because it's practically the exact same thing we did in class that day. Type of factual text: Why?​