“Ideally I don’t think homework should be learning new subjects or really hard at all it should be a cake walk of whatever was learned during that day.”

As professional educators, that’s what many of us intend. In my case, many kids just don’t really practice the new stuff in class, so when they get home they think it’s new. I fixed that issue a few years ago, but it’s crazy what a hard time some kids have with pretty basic self-regulation. I don’t blame anyone in particular, it’s just tough.