School Homework.
REPORTS OF PRINCIPALS. SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION. BY WELLINGTON COLLEGE BOARD (By Telegraph.—l-ress Association. j WELLINGTON, Sept. 30. The. question of homework in schools was the subject of a letter from the Education Board which was read to a meeting of the Wellington College Board. The letter acknowledges receipt of copies of reports from the principals of three local Colleges on results of the questionnaire issued by them on the subject of homework. The principals concerned were alive to the possibilities of danger arising from setting excessive homework. The letter said the Department, jfchrougih its inspectors, had kept careful watch over what was being*done in various schools. As to whether homework should be entirely abolished for first-year pupils could not be unanimously decided on the evidence available.
The Board's letter to the Department said homework should not be given to junior pupils. The whole question of 'homework in schools throughout New Zealand was one for the Education Department to deal with and not one for individual boards.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19825, 30 September 1936, Page 2
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