Click Here | Primary schools are being urged to scrap homework after a study claimed it was a source of family conflict with no educational benefit. Academics in England and America say that it does not improve test scores and can make things worse for low-achieving pupils. According Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth, writing in the Telegraph.co.uk, parents coming home tired from work are being turned into homework monitors instead of enjoying leisure time with their children. Children are frustrated and become weepy and fed up by the demands put on them after a long day at schools, he said, and half the parents interviewed by researchers admitted having homework arguments that involved yelling or crying. |
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