Homework for me (I'm 22) while at highschool was mandatory and contributed to your overall mark.
I never did mine. Like, at all.
Luckily for me, I had the highest grades across my entire year, and did so well that they bent the rules for me and ignored the fact I never did my homework.
Still not sure if that was a good thing or not to be honest, our workload wasn't that large, and it took me a while to build a work ethic.
I did no homework at all in high school. Jesuit college prep, high workload, homework part of the grade. I got bad grades across the board, and, in math, that was in part because I wasn't practicing the skills they were testing; I left high school with subpar math, which still haunts me.
Bad grades kept me (pretty much) out of college, which in my case was fortunate, because I graduated high school with a couple years in which to warm up for the first dot-com bubble, which was lucrative for me.
I too feel like I had to learn a work ethic "in the real world", which is less forgiving than school, and I think I would have been modestly better off had I done the homework --- except that I might have ended up in college.
I never did mine. Like, at all.
Luckily for me, I had the highest grades across my entire year, and did so well that they bent the rules for me and ignored the fact I never did my homework.
Still not sure if that was a good thing or not to be honest, our workload wasn't that large, and it took me a while to build a work ethic.