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Oct 12, 2008
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." --Lily Tomlin
UK's Biggest School Scraps Homework
A new school that will be the biggest in the country is to abandon homework because the head teacher believes it does not justify the detentions and family rows it causes. Nottingham East academy, which will have 3,570 pupils, claims it will be the first school to scrap homework. It will instead have an extra lesson and after-school activities such as sport, model aircraft-building and sari-making. The school will retain some homework for exam revision and coursework, but otherwise will simply encourage parents to read books in a relaxed way with their children and ask the pupils to report twice a term what they have read.
BE THE CHANGE
What valuable lessons did you learn from your own teachers that weren't part of your formal 'education'?
