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| Subject: What happened when a primary school stopped giving homework to its students Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:52 pm | |
| Whether or not primary school students should be given homework is a longstanding – and polarising – debate.
Those in favour cite its benefits for consolidating what children have learnt during the day, while those against feel it cuts into family time – and that it's simply not a battle worth fighting when kids are exhausted after school.
For a primary school principal in Vermont, lingering questions about the effectiveness of setting homework led to him conducting an experiment. Students at Orchard School, which includes kids from K-5, were asked to read and play instead. And the results of their no-homework trial are certainly food for though.
School principal Mark Trifilio told the Washington Post that when the school year began, he sat down with his staff and gave them a proposal: what if we stopped homework in every year and replaced it with reading and outside play?
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/education/school/primary-school/what-happened-when-a-primary-school-stopped-setting-homework-20170301-guo1fz |
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