HOMEWORK IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

HOMEWORK IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS,

RITE OR WRONG?

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HOMEWORK FOR UNDER ELEVENS? RITE OR WRONG?
Well let me start by saying i personaly do not agree that homework at such a young age is of any real advantage at all,in my opinion all it does is causes undue stress to children and parents alike.
I also feel that if our children are put in this stressful situation they will start to hate school and there school work will suffer as a direct result,(true in some cases but not in all)
It is not just school work that will suffer but child parent relations will also suffer, as we as responsible parents push our children as much as we can to do there homework, this is the point were children of any age will start to argue with us, and will start to shout the odds,and lets face it we adults cant accept this from our children and therefor punish them.
On average my son will get 2 lots of homework per day, and will take about 1 hour to complete, simple math tells us all that this is five hours of homework per week, and that is without school projects, and weekend homework.
I would love it if some one out there would show me the justification behind this madness,After all what adult would want to do 6 or 7 hours of compulsary overtime every week and not be paid for it?(and you can include your holidays with that).
Who knows maybe if TEACHERS had to actualy mark homework and make comments on homework sheets, mark out of 10, and hand the homework back to the children, insted of our children doing this extra work and dumping in a draw in their classroom,to be glanced over when teacher gets the time, Then maybe just maybe they would not be so happy to be swamping our kids with all this extra work.
Our children do deserve the best education possible, but in my oppinion (for what thats worth) this can and should be achieved within the classroom, So if that means TEACHER TRAINING DAYS are taken during school holidays instead of term time, and reducing the amount of time lost in schools by way of school holidays, instead of creating more school breaks when ever teachers complain about stressful working conditions, then perhaps our little treasures could do their learning at school, and start enjoying home life again with a major reduction in arguments within the family home.
Time for these so called (do gooders) started thinking about the stress there new education ideas are causing our children, and not how stressful primary school children are for those who choose to teach them........ BARRIE

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