He, yeah. When in high school, I happened to have the same English teacher for 4 years, and from the second year onwards he would always ask me: "Are you going to submit ANY homework this year?" I would then say "No" and he would not ask me again that year.

Also, I noticed that with the beginning of this new term, people started remembering their excuses. Now why would that be... I wonder

Actually now that I think about it, I never used excuses all the way to university. I was brutally honest and just declared "I didnt do the homework." And teachers would always let me get away with that as there was really nothing they could do, and I would always end up puling off the subject.