BURDEN OF HOME-WORK
A HARDSHIP UPON MOST
CHILDREN.
The difficulty under which country pupils labour through having to travel long distances to and from school is again being brought under the notice of city parents by a remit from the Walton School Committee, which will come before the annual meeting of the Auckland Primary Schools Association on Tuesday next. The objection lodged will certainly find support in most country districts. Country children are admittedly handicapped as compared with those of the town through the long distance that often separates them /from the school which they attend. The Walton School Committee, in the Matamata district, has directed its attention to making the lot of the children easier by releasing them from a certain amount of homework. The remit reads as follows: “That this committee requests the as-, sociation to assist in stopping the children from doing home-work other than that set by the teacher, and that same be collected and corrected each morning by the teacher. Also that children of high and technical schools, who have to travel long distances night and morning by train, be released from the large amount of home-work that they have to do, as same only tends to tire them out, as well as teaching them to slum their work” The same conditions apply at Te Awamutu.
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Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1775, 26 June 1926, Page 5
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