'Homework strike' for November called as parents reveal kids have no free time until after 20.00 at night
Friday, September 23, 2016 @ 10:04 AM
PARENT-TEACHER associations have called a 'homework strike' for November after a recent survey revealed that 48.5% of mums and dads believe the amount of extra studying children have to do after school is affecting family life.
The Confederation of PTAs, CEAPA, wants homework to be axed altogether – following on from the 'Finland model' where education standards and results are the best in the world despite shorter hours and no studying at home.
Parents who join in the strike will formally ask their children's schools not to set them any homework over the weekends that month and, if they do so anyway, will send a note with the pupil on Monday explaining in their own words why this work was not done.
A study by CEAPA of the first half of 2016, up to and including the end of the summer term, includes responses from 1,748 pupils' parents, of whom 92% are in State-run schools.
Of these, 58.81% are in primary school and 25.64% are in the two-year run-up to their ESO, Spain's answer to GCSEs.
Just over one in five say their children spend over two hours a day on homework on school nights, and 58.82% say their kids' grades suffer if they do not do part or all of it.
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