Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:27 am
Lazarus404, I don't know about the home schooling aspect here in Australia, but some schools have finally caught on to the enormous amount of pressure they put kids through and have banned homework completely.
In the schools that have banned homework, there is no suicide rate, no back problems (from the tons of books kids carry around!!), the children do so much better at exams than those with tons of homework, seem to be able to handle social occasions better than their elders (grin), don't have a myriad of family problems and are a lot better emotionally adjusted.
This too is a step in the right direction.
My sister home schooled her two daughters for many years before the law forced her to put them in school (sadly) and those two squidlets can out-talk any adult, have the most marvelously social personalities and are loving and kind to most people. Quite unlike 98% of the kids I have seen around here packed day after day into an instituionalised school system.
Schools are just getting worse...
In the schools that have banned homework, there is no suicide rate, no back problems (from the tons of books kids carry around!!), the children do so much better at exams than those with tons of homework, seem to be able to handle social occasions better than their elders (grin), don't have a myriad of family problems and are a lot better emotionally adjusted.
This too is a step in the right direction.
My sister home schooled her two daughters for many years before the law forced her to put them in school (sadly) and those two squidlets can out-talk any adult, have the most marvelously social personalities and are loving and kind to most people. Quite unlike 98% of the kids I have seen around here packed day after day into an instituionalised school system.
Schools are just getting worse...
