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  1. The Homework Debate 2021: Should homework be banned in the UK?

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  2. Get involved: Should homework be banned?

    Well primary school children in Poland don't have to do it anymore after the government banned it. Under the new rules, teachers can't give out compulsory homework - that's homework you have to do ...

  3. School Report: Do we get too much homework?

    A big report for the Department for Education, published in 2014, concluded that students in Year 9 who spent between two and three hours on homework on an average week night were almost 10 times ...

  4. Education Secretary: I trust head teachers to decide their homework

    Just to be clear: schools are not obliged to set homework, and some don't. But when schools do set homework, children do need to do it. We trust individual school head teachers to decide what their policy on homework will be, and what happens if pupils don't do what's set. Policy and approach won't be the same in all cases.

  5. Should homework be banned?

    Should homework be banned? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

  6. Is homework a good idea or not?

    1998: Government publishes advice for schools in England and Wales about setting homework (e.g. pupils aged 5 to 7 should do 10 minutes of homework a night) 1999: Around 9 in 10 primary schools ...

  7. More than half of parents want to BAN homework

    More than half of parents think that homework is a waste of time and adds extra stress on children. It follows a poll by Good Morning Britain showing 52% in favour of a ban and 48% against one.

  8. Should Homework Be Scrapped For Young Kids?

    Harris - a blogger known as Man Behaving Dadly - is in favour of banning homework when it is "massively time consuming" and ultimately a "parental contest to make huge art projects ...

  9. Should homework be banned? The big debate

    Homework is a polarising topic among students, teachers and parents. The research shows that the impact varies based on lots of different factors. Read more about the pros and cons and join the debate. ... Should homework be banned? The big debate Homework is a polarising topic. It can cause students to feel stressed or anxious. It adds extra ...

  10. Should Schools Ban Homework?

    Celebrities on Twitter have sparked a debate saying that setting children homework is stressful and pointless. The majority of schools in the UK set homework...

  11. The Great Homework Debate In Primary Schools 2024

    Up until 2012, the Department of Education recommended an hour of homework a week for primary school Key Stage 1 children (aged 4 to 7) and half an hour a day for primary school Key Stage 2 children (aged 7-11). Many primary schools still use this as a guideline. Teachers, parents and children in many schools across the land have seen more ...

  12. Homework Pros and Cons

    In the early 1900s, progressive education theorists, championed by the magazine Ladies' Home Journal, decried homework's negative impact on children's physical and mental health, leading California to ban homework for students under 15 from 1901 until 1917. In the 1930s, homework was portrayed as child labor, which was newly illegal, but ...

  13. Is it a human right to not do homework

    But having rights doesn't mean there won't be consequences for your actions - and some of those rights can be taken away. The bottom line is yes, you as a human being have a right to refuse to do something like homework, but you don't have the right to do that and remain a pupil of your school. Your school can be seen as a bit like a small ...

  14. First secondary school in Britain to BAN homework

    A headteacher at Britain's first secondary school to ban homework claims the move allows teachers more time to plan lessons.. The new policy has been introduced at the 1,650-pupil Philip Morant ...

  15. Ban homework except for GCSE coursework

    Date closed 3 November 2023. Get petition data (json format) About petition data. The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name ...

  16. Ban schools from being able to set homework

    UK Government and Parliament. Closed petition Ban schools from being able to set homework ... Children have personal lives and families, and should not have to sacrifice their personal time to do homework. This petition is closed All petitions run for 6 months. 600 signatures. Show on a map.

  17. Poland's children rejoice as homework is banned. The rest of the world

    The government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk enacted the ban against required homework this month amid a broad discussion about the need to modernise Poland's education system, which critics say ...

  18. Government scraps homework rules for English schools

    Official homework guidelines set by the government for English schools have been scrapped. Michael Gove, the man in charge of Education, says head teachers can decide how much homework to set or ...

  19. Ban homework in the UK

    Rejected petition Ban homework in the UK I think we should ban homework in the UK because we go to school for 5 days a week when we go home it's meant to be a place to relax and spend time with family not work and worry about school. This petition was rejected.

  20. President of Ireland calls on schools to stop giving pupils homework

    Schools should strive not to give pupils homework where possible, the president of Ireland has suggested.. In an utterance likely to be seized upon by children for years to come, in classrooms far ...

  21. Homework Ban

    Before the ban, Polish kids spent around 1.7 hours per day on homework, which is more than a lot of other countries, and some experts questioned whether or not it was doing any good.

  22. PETITION TO BAN ALL HOMEWORK.

    I want to ban all homework. We already have to do 6-7 hours of work at school and we are supposed to relax when we get home, but no the schools just want to make our lives miserable. And all the schools are on about mental health when doing homework actually just destroys our mental health.

  23. Petition · Ban Homework

    Ban Homework. Ban Homework. Started. 5 November 2017. Petition to. UK Government (Department for Education) Petition Closed. ... If I was in charge of all the schools in the UK, then I would obviously ban homework, but I would allow small revision to be taken home by students from time to time.

  24. Hate preachers and extremists banned from the UK

    The UK already has some of the most sophisticated mechanisms for stopping foreign extremists from entering the UK, but since 7 October 2023 it has become clear that we must do more.

  25. Ban Homework

    UK Government and Parliament. Rejected petition Ban Homework I would like the government to ban all School Homework up to GCSE age. More details. Homework is not good for Childrens mental well-being or family life. The school day has just been extended by 20 minutes so schools should complete all work required within the school day. Some adults ...