In India something that is common is kids being enrolled in sort of a dummy school where they don't have to worry about attendance. Kids have to write national standardised exams in school in grade 12th. But the curriculum is much much easier from that of the entrance exams that they need to write to get into engineering or medical schools. Moreover, the score in the school exams is inconsequential as long as you get above something like 60% because the entrance test score is the only thing that is looked at for entry in colleges. So children are ground to dust by only what is called "cram school" here rather than by also the school.
Not saying this is ideal or even good. In fact it is terrible. But children coming back from learning at 10pm only to have to do homework is just straight up inhumane. It sounds like the mark of a deeply ill society.