HELP WITH HOMEWORK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 4

HELP WITH HOMEWORK

PARENTS OF PUPILS AUCKLAND INQUIRY (For Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this clay. Ail admission that they help their children with tlicit homework was made hy about 550 of BCO parents, who re plied to a questionnaire on the mat ter of homework recently circulated by tlm Auckland Headmasters’ Association m au effort to reach various conclusion.about homework. A sub-committee of the association has carried out investigations at four schools and has collected some interesting data. A majority of the parents Questioned appeared to favour homework under the circumstances. -Most of these people mentioned, arithmetic as a. sub ject they most preferred their children to work on at home, spelling being the -c’cond choice Nearly half the children concerned had a quiet room in which to work, while about a third worked m vooms in which radio sets were play-

At the same time as this inquiiy was made, 300 teachers replied to a questionnaire supplied by the Auckland University College and the Department of Education. A majority of the teachers favoured homework, while one-fifth of them set no work for Friday nights. Most of them expected the work set on other nights to take half au hour or less.