Family with overworked children bans homework

Sherri and Tom Milley, two Calgary lawyers, were exhausted from the overbearing amount of homework that their children were receiving on a daily basis. Some of the assignments these children were forced to do included their Third grade daughter Brittany building a paper mache playground, complete with moving parts, and their Grade 4 son Jay told to cut out $1 million dollars worth of goods from a consumer catalog. After two years of battling with the school board to change the homework policy, they have finally come to a conclusion: the Milleys' children will never have to do homework again.

Luckiest children alive aside, homework, in my opinion, is acceptable to an extent, but doing something as pointless as creating a working paper mache playground is ridiculous. The amount of homework some children and high school students alike is unbearable. Not to say that every single student has their work cut out for them, I'm just elaborating that homework has to have a point to it for students to learn anything from it, and that too much homework defeats the purpose entirely, not to mention taking up children's social time, and overworking them to the point of insanity. Homework in most cases needs to be thought over to make it do the intended task: help the children graduate.



Article courtesy of the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/how-one-family-won-the-battle-to-ban-homework/article1367357/