"Everybody Loves Raymond" Homework (TV Episode 2002) - Henry LeBlanc as Board Member

Ray Barone : I was up all night going over the material and, uh, well I just got a few things to say. You know, when I was a kid I always thought that we had too much homework and, um, since I hated all the homework I started to hate learning. In fact what I learned to do more than anything else was to avoid the work. Sorry to say I still try to avoid it whenever I can. Just ask my wife. But, you know, it seems to me that kids today, they've got ten times the homework that we had, you know? And I don't want my daughter to hate learning. I want here to be curious and thoughtful and get excited about new ideas. And most of all, and I think this is what we want for all our kids, I want her to be happy. I mean, I think there's homework that's important and everything and then I think there's overload. I mean, are we piling it on? You know we're so worried that the kids won't be competitive and that kids won't have a future that we're taking away their present. Anyway, you know, maybe we could just keep that in mind. Cause isn't that the type of school we want our kids to be at? I mean in. I mean of. I mean a part of. I mean, isn't that... isn't tha... isn't that the kind of school we want our children to be a part of? In.

[Ray sits down and a board member turns to another member]

Board Member : And you wanted to cut down on the English homework.

Henry LeBlanc: Board Member