The thing is, that is excepted. You get homework, and parents get annoyed if you complain about it, and so do teachers. Also, parents often expect the students to stick up for themselves, but when they do, the teachers get mad. I had a talk with one of my teachers once, (tried to tell her that it was getting ridiculous, and that there was too much work, but it was all to easy, took too much time, and her deadlines were crazy) and she wrote an angry email to my parents. If I try to tell teachers that it is too much, people just say "Well its not Middle School anymore."