Thursday 7 February 2008

HOMEWORK

No-one under the age of eleven should be required to do homework.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for your comments. I too think the radio continues to be a marvellous medium. I will look at your blog in more detail at another time.
Tom

Anonymous said...

Hello! I just stopped by to check out your blog!

Susan Harwood said...

Hello Tom and 'Anonymous'. It's good to have visitors to the blog!

Hope you drop by again soon!

Susan

Unknown said...

No-one under the age of eleven should be required to go to school.

Susan Harwood said...

Anthony

'Requiring' anything to do with education is difficult.

When my children don't want to go to school, I remind them of the conditions children worked in before they were given the 'right' to full-time education . . . and that this 'right' can only be upheld if they are forced to take advantage of it (!) . . . otherwise adults might make them go out and earn money instead - which would, ultimately, be to their disadvantage.

All very contradictory and, in many ways, unsatisfactory.

If I ruled the education system . . . I'd lower the school leaving age for secondary school students.

Then, I'd lengthen the time primary aged children spend in school by one hour each day, at the same time as reducing the number of days they spend there to four a week.

Susan