Too Much Homework?

I'm all for finding ways to encourage kids to do their homework, but I think we need to question some assumptions here. Are teachers asking kids to do an unreasonable amount of homework? When I was in grade school, I had the same teacher all day. Therefore, that teacher knew exactly how much homework his or her students had each night. With several teachers assigining homework throughout the day, my son often comes home with three to four hours of homework in a night. Is this reasonable?

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