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Parents told me today that the 5th class teacher is giving 2 1/2 hour homework nightly to pupils. Why? To prepare them for secondary school.
Well, seems this teacher needs to re-learn (if they ever learned) the purpose of primary schooling. They could also benefit from reading the Revised Primary Curriculum (if they ever read it in the first place).
That amount of homework has no place in the life of a primary school child. It disturbs families and interferes with the parent-child relationship.
Homework in primary school is largely a useless enterprise at best. So let’s get over it shall we?
Abolish homework in primary school!