In American culture education-related jobs are to be aspired to and vocational-related jobs are looked down upon. Just observing, not propagandizing. Therefor

In American culture education-related jobs are to be aspired to and vocational-related jobs are looked down upon. Just observing, not propagandizing. Therefore school vocational activity is socially inferior to school educational activity. The best (only?) way to teach vocational skills is to practice them. Carpenters do not learn the dovetail joint by reading books but by making a hundred or so by hand. It works pretty well for vocational skills such as carpentry, arithmetic, and coding. But, vocational work is what social inferiors do at school. Kids on an education path should not be tainted by experiencing prole life such as homework therefore Americans generally don't like homework for social class reasons. Adding to the fire, higher math is educational, lower arithmetic is vocational grinding. Kids are going to spend most of their school time in "math" doing vocational grinding. Vocational work is prole and we are all socialized by our culture to hate vocational work so obviously the result is "I hate math". Meanwhile people who haven't learned arithmetic in 30 years think of all of math as educational experiences in topology theory in grad school or whatever and mistakenly think kids math is just like their last grad school math class, all deep thought and reasoning and education, therefore vocational grinding is inappropriate, although ironically its the best way to learn that early subset of the field. Its simultaneously true that grinding homework like a prole is an inefficient way to learn topology in grad school and a good way to learn addition in first grade. All you need to do to change American attitudes toward homework is upend the entire socioeconomic system and how culture views the socioeconomic system. Until then expect to hear a lot of "my kid gets too much homework" and "I don't like math". And people outside American culture will continue to be confused, and American kids will generally graduate somewhat innumerate compared to other cultures that have different hangups. Which results in a lot of crooks selling snake oil that'll fix everything "silver bullet style" if only we put bibles in school or fill in more scantron tests. And much like programming, WRT school and learning there is no silver bullet.