Kids and Homework! AHHHHHH

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I have 5 children that I gave birth to and 5 step children and custody of my little brother. Homework is very time consuming for me because I have no help. My old man works out of state. All the kids are different. I have some that do great, some that struggle and some that are just down right LAZY!!!! I'm so aggervated at 2 of my sons because they just will NOT even try to do their homework on their own. They want me to just do it for them! I made a rule that they must do it on their own and then I will check it and help them correct what needs corrected. But, I'm having a real hard time enforcing it. They will both just shut down and not doing ANYTHING when I insist that they do it on their own. I explain how to do it and will even do a couple with them and then I expect them to atleast TRY, but they won't. So, from the time they step off the bus until bedtime I'm helping with homework! Do you think I'm going about it the wrong way? I've tried everything I can think of! It's exhausting! I get aggervated with them because they won't try. I don't mean to, but I know they are capable of doing the work, they just refuse to do it. I've grounded them and taken away ALL tv time. They are not allowed on the computer or outside until homework is done. They haven't been allowed to play video games since school started. And I'm still not getting a result. They have both been checked for learning disorders, but they don't have any. I've offered insentives for them to do homework. I've even went as far as to offer money. That didn't work either. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do? Pleaseeee help!!!