HOMEWORK IN SCHOOLS
VIEWS IN WELLINGTON POSSIBILITIES OF DANGER [by telegraph—press association] WKLLINfJTOX. Thursday The question of homework in schools was the subject of a letter from the Education Board which was read at the meeting to-day of the Wellington College board. The letter acknowledged receipt of copies of reports from the principals of three local colleges on the results of questionnaires which they had issued on the subject of homework. The principals concerned were alive to the possibilities of danger arising from setting excessive homework. The letter stated that the department, through the inspectors, had kept a careful watch over what was being done in the various schools. The question as to whether homework should be entirely abolished for lirst-vear pupils co dd not be unanimously decided on the evidence available. The board's letter to the department stated that homework should not be given to junior pupils. The whole question of homework in the schools throughout New Zealand was one for the Education Department to deal with and not one for the individual boards.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22539, 2 October 1936, Page 15
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175HOMEWORK IN SCHOOLS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22539, 2 October 1936, Page 15
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