HOME WORK.
TO THX ISITOB OF "TBI FBI8S." >. Sir, —It is very, welcome news that there is hope of open-air schools for children, hut there is another reform that would Be hailed with even more delight by us mothers, and that ia no home-work. The children work all day at school and' are expected to do then an hour and a-half's home-work in the evening. Of course, I am speaking of the secondary schools. The teachers in their training for State school work at Home are told that it i a a sign of bad teaching to need to give home-work. "Why can not the same rule apply to secondary work? Surely a good' teacher should be able to do all he needs. with a child in the daylight? What adult works all dav and evening too? "'■•' The tired children's" home lessons is "the subject, of.conversation at. every mothers* .'afternoon tea party, but we are helpless in our efforts to ' change the attitude of the autocratic • schoolmaster or mistress. I have never written a letter to the paper before, and I would wish to sign my name, but I fear to do so for the sake of my offspring.—Tours, etc.; A MOTBTEE.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18073, 15 May 1924, Page 11
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