HOME-WORK.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—Your correspondent D. Lumsdea is evidently taking advantage of your columns for a cheap advertisement, in view of the approaching election of a new committee for the East Christchurch District School. If your 'correspondent had taken an intelligent interest in the work done by his committee, he must have known that written home-work has been practically abolished for some time past, and only given in exceptional cases, and only a small amount of spelling, &c., given. That this has met the wishes of the parents is testified to by the fact that upon inquiry 1 find that no complaints of excessive home-work have been made for a long time past. While Mr Lumsden is fully entitled to any capital he can make, out of a matter like this, it speaks little for his intelligence when he suppresses the fact that any parent has the power to stop all home-work by simply writing to the head-master that he objects to home-work being given to his children. Tllp Board of Education is perfectly aware that home lessons have been reduced to \ reasonable amount, and has declined to entertain his request, having at their hands more reliable information than he is able to give.—l am, &c., * A SATISFIED PARENT.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11252, 26 April 1897, Page 2
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