I'm Not Rolling the Dice On the Latest Educational Fad

I've been picking up the scent of the latest pronouncements by the self-appointed experts on how we should be raising our children for awhile but it appears to gathering steam now. First they scolded us for actually being parents and not bosom-buddies with our kids among other proclamations from on high. Now they want to enlist us in killing off homework. I know there is an appropriate and lengthy response to this that touches on how one develops specific skills as well as the habits of personal discipline, focus, thoroughness, pride in work-product, etc., but the clear winner here is just to call "Bullshit" on the experts. This is one of those debates that is stacked against us normal folks. A bunch of education industry and childhood development big thinkers with Ph.Ds in the softest of soft sciences and years of experience observing children (as opposed to raising them and living with the results) pronounce from on high what is right and good. Who are we to argue with experts, right? Despite the experts' terrible track record in crafting an education/childhood well-being industry that delivers uneducated children, declining standards, and widespread pharmacological dependence, we are supposed to go along because they have done "studies."

What should our answer be? Insist on homework for your children and let others do as they please. Rather than let them force a debate into a winner-take-all policy battle, let them permit their kids to play their videogames or watch TV. My kids will do homework, and hopefully a goodly amount of it. I'll roll the dice as to whether my kids will outcompete and outperform the non-homework doers later on in life.