Homework Troubles

Nicholas does have the best handwriting on earth, I'll admit it. So his homework assignments take at least thirty minutes every night. Every time he writes a letter or number, we have to erase it and write it again, and again, and again. Otherwise the homework paper is returned to us and we have to do it all over again the next night. It's hard to believe that this is just the beginning of homework for us, we have 12 more years to go, how long is it going to take by the time he gets to 8th grade???????