Petition to ban homework

Of thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the regulation of "excessive amounts of homework" given to schoolchildren in campaign was started by madrid mother, eva bailen, who began to see the effect up to three hours of homework a day was having on her 10-year-old bailen – who has two other daughters at the same school – said her son, diego, began showing signs of stress after spending so much time trying to keep on top of his said: “the problem in spain is that the burden of homework is up to each teacher. Her campaign even attracted the support of a vocal secondary school teacher, alfonso gonzalez, who wrote to ms bailen, telling her: “i've done loads of homework for my daughter and i don't regret it.

I believe homework is nonsense,” he ms bailen’s petition is calling for the regulation of homework in spanish schools, mr gonzalez wants the campaign to go a step further – and ban it altogether: “what a child needs to learn during primary education can be learned during the hours that he is at school,” he explained. Jose miguel campo, who is a member of the professional college of education of madrid, accepts that there is, indeed, a lack of consistency across classrooms, but still believes homework is essential for a child’s said: “personally, i believe it is important to develop the capacity of doing work at home and i don't think that six hours a week is excessive.

Ms bailen’s petition is currently 36,000 signatures away from reaching its goal of 150,000 use cookies to enhance your visit to our site and to bring you advertisements that might interest you. The ublock click the big power button to whitelist the current web site, and its state will be remembered next time you visit the web reload the you for supporting of thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the regulation of "excessive amounts of homework" given to schoolchildren in campaign was started by madrid mother, eva bailen, who began to see the effect up to three hours of homework a day was having on her 10-year-old bailen – who has two other daughters at the same school – said her son, diego, began showing signs of stress after spending so much time trying to keep on top of his said: “the problem in spain is that the burden of homework is up to each teacher.

In a very modest outfit on flight from london to mum petitions other parents to ban homework for 'overworked' kids. 14 edt, 25 may under: a new jersey parent has tried to rally others around abolishing homework for children ng to cbs news, education expert sy fliegel said the move was too aid: 'it’s like someone saying to you too much food is no good for you,What’s the solution?

What has to happen is more to be paid to the quality of the homework assignment. Fliegel said that schools should stick to a set of strict time limits on the amount of homework they instance first graders should get 10 minutes with second graders on 20 moving up to high school, where the maximum should be two added that part of the problem was that teachers did not co-ordinate the amount of work they were giving ion expert sy fliegel said the move to ban homework was a step too ng to the network, maddy reichman - a freshman at a school in maplewood - said she had at least  'two or three hours' a some of her friends added this can rise to three or even four said: 'i play sports so it’s really tough to have practice right and come home at 6:30 and then do my homework, eat, do my chores,Do everything.

Despite the email campaign, it appears even students think banning homework altogether is a bit school freshman molly brett said:  'i think it would be nice, but i’m not sure we could ever abolish it t, because it helps me sometimes. Live with kelly & ryan' destroy the halloween competition as pair dress like taylor swift, kardashians, stranger things, game of therones...

Associated newspapers y policy & berrafato, 11, is challenging - seriously challenging - one of this country's most enduring and widely held beliefs: the belief that kids need though he's just a fifth grader, 11-year-old ben berrafato is challenging - seriously challenging - one of this country's most enduring and widely held beliefs: the belief that kids need homework. Ben 's crusade against homework began with a simple assignment, cbs news correspondent steve hartman reports.

Ben had to write about something he was passionate about - and since ben hates homework he wrote about that. And he did so quite of his essay reads: "homework is assigned to students like me without our permission.

He's really onto something here," said nancy kalish, who co-authored a book called "the case against homework. As he pointed out, there is almost zero connection, correlation between homework and any type of achievement in elementary school," kalish researching his essay, kalish says ben really did his homework, so to speak, citing the very latest studies.

Kids who do 60 to 90 minutes of homework in middle school and over two hours in high school actually do worse than average in standardized tests," his essay far is ben going to take it? I have a petition and i'm going to try and get a law abolishing homework," he plans to send the signatures to says just about everybody's been supportive.

If you're going to do homework then forget what it is, then why even do it? To paraphrase what patrick henry actually said: give me liberty from homework or give him … extra credit, at least.

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