Is it not they’ll take their homework (from) you and then bring it with them when they go to school tomorrow. Which means the kids got something away from you and will carry it to a specified location-school. Really these two verbs creates a debatable issue that even established rules can be refute.

Sorry, but I have to disagree. You may be right, but you haven’t convinced me.

You bring here; you take there. If the journalist is at the school, he can legitimately say “Johnny brought the knife (here) to school with him.” If he is in some office somewhere, he should say “Johnny took the knife (there) to school with him.”

The only exception I can think of is when the speaker is not in whatever place specified, but will be when the action takes place. “I am bringing my macaw with me when I come to visit you,” I might say to you on the phone, although I am neither on my way nor in your house. “When we meet in Chicago for the picnickers’ convention, don’t forget to bring the watermelons.”

For what it’s worth (which, without a citation, isn’t much) I believe John Gardner, writing in the early eighties, referred to this as the “peculiarly Northeastern inversion of ‘bring’ and ‘take.’ ” I thought it was in ON BECOMING A NOVELIST, although several scans have failed to bring it to eye. It may have been in THE ART OF FICTION, my copy of which seems to have disappeared.

I do know that forty years ago in school, I would never have been allowed to make such an inversion.

Levi