I postponed it to the very last second if I did it at all. (I got very good grades though, and graduated near the top of my class despite the following incident I'll share.)
I have a (to me) very funny story about homework though. When I was in high school taking Algebra I had a major conflict with a teacher. I would usually only do enough homework to make sure I understood things (in any subject). Once I was comfortable, I'd drop it - if it was possible to do in the subject. Granted there were times where teachers were ridiculous sticklers about doing it regardless, but in this instance, I drew a line in the sand.
My teacher would spend the first part of most classes going around the room asking random students for their answers on the previous day's homework. When she got to me, I'd honestly reply, "I didn't do it." to the amusement of my classmates and annoyance of my teacher. This all led eventually to a debate that raged pretty intensely in-class for multiple full class periods.
I was sick of being forced to do things simply for the sake of doing them - busy work. And my teacher was immovable on the idea that homework would remain a (significant) portion of the grade. I was getting A's on the tests and I questioned her (this was all done in class - it was a huge spirited debate with me and my teacher at the center of things) on why we do homework in the first place. To be fair, she did acknowledge that it was to learn things. To which, I responded of course, that I've demonstrated that I've learned the things she is teaching repeatedly.
She insisted that it wasn't fair to have one standard for some students and another for others - which is reasonable. I countered that homework should be stricken from factoring into grading altogether. (Granted, I knew I would lose this debate, but I didn't care at some point in this conflict.) She informed me in front of the whole class multiple times that if I didn't do enough of my homework and that if it impacted my grade sufficiently, she would have no problem failing me in the class.
My response was that if she thinks failing a student who is demonstrating mastery of a subject via the evaluations she herself gives them is a reasonable thing to do in a profession where the goal is to impart knowledge, that she should go ahead and fail me. And she did, lol. I expected it to happen, but I had had my fill of the idea that you just must do what you are told without questioning. (The real *purpose* of schooling.) I had no further dialogue with her about it in the aftermath, but I always wondered how she felt about it - both failing a student getting A's on tests and the fact that a student upheld her classes with long debates about why we are in school in the first place.
I did retake the course with another teacher the following semester and got all A's of course. (teacher had no homework requirements for grading.) But that was such a mentally stimulating period for me where I had an early realization that the system is there to enforce arbitrary measures - to keep everyone on the treadmill. Don't think, just do what you're told / what is expected of you. There's no real allowance for challenging the status quo.
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(that was through certification, though)
