Posted on 10/17/2012 7:33:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
French President Francois Hollande has vowed to ban homework as part of wide-ranging reforms to the country's education system.
Hollande has expressed worries over the fact that privileged children benefit from parental assistance on take-home assignments and that disadvantaged children do not have support at home.
"An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home," the New York Daily News quoted Hollande, as saying.
According to a report by France 24, Hollande's extensive education reform plans also include increasing financial aid while combating truancy.
He also intends to provide incentives for teachers in difficult area, the report said.
According to the report, France ranks below most nearby European countries, as well as the United States, on international tests, which has prompted a desire for restructuring.
This is jaw-droppingly stupid.
Because he feels that some children have an unfair advantage, instead of encouraging the poor children to do better, he wants to bring the “privileged” down to their level.
Socialism is a catastrophe.
If those are even legal. Maybe the homework ban will be extended to after school tutoring because it isn't faaaaaaaair that some parents can afford it and others can't. Kind of like the French government checking parking lots at job sites to see if anyone was exceeding their 35-hour work week.
As I said -— if government gets involved in creating “fairness”, it usually ends up going amok.
We of course know that in the name of “fairness” one isn’t allowed to work more than 35 hours a week. If the job requires 40 or more hours of work for instance, the company should then hire someone else to make up for the 5 or more hours the work requires ( all in the name of “fairness”, so that others get the chance to have a job ).
Furthermore, employees may not work for more than 4.5 hours without a break.
Breaks, lasting a minimum of 20 minutes, must be granted to the employees at least every 6 hours. All workers must be allowed a daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours (9 hours in certain cases depending on collective agreements).
The minimum weekly rest period is 35 consecutive hours (11 hours plus a 24 consecutive hour rest period per week). There are waivers for some activities (machine operators, seasonal workers). Sundays are, in general, considered rest days.
And evidently its purpose is to force everyone down to the lowest common denominator, rather than enable individuals to reach their highest potential.
That’s what I was thinking;if there is no homework, no books go home, parents are kept unaware of the materials. If you have kids in public school, please visit their classrooms, or volunteer in the classroom, and look at the assignments and books. And rememember that you are the employer and boss of these people running the education system.
That’s what I was thinking;if there is no homework, no books go home, parents are kept unaware of the materials. If you have kids in public school, please visit their classrooms, or volunteer in the classroom, and look at the assignments and books. And rememember that you are the employer and boss of these people running the education system.
Wow, another really great idea from the French socialists—mandatory school detention. I’m sure as much home work (and “help”) will get done there as gets done in detention in American schools. Spitballs, anyone?
I should have said this is Merde, if you will pardon mon Anglais.
My fourth grader has at least an hours homework a night
Much more than I had
Silly to me
You are, of course, right. But you will encounter some hostility, if you try to point out to those people, that you are their employer. Many of them haven’t gotten the message that we are supposed to have a Republican form of Government.
“This is jaw-droppingly stupid.”
Couldn’t have been stated better.
So before long, the prisons should be full of young students who only want to do well academically, and their parents who refuse to surrender their role to the government. Nicely done.
Standard liberal thinking: Close the gap by lowering everybody, achieve equality of outcome. Problem solved.
No it isn’t. DO you have kids? Are you at all familiar with the method they are using to instruct math these days? I have learned a lot of math at a fairly high level, I couldn’t figure out my daughter’s homework using what she learned in school.
They problems that are long division before the kid has completed the times table. They give division problems with leftover frations, without explaining that as a possible result. They pretend that they have some super secret method that I wouldn’t understand when I complain about it to them. My daughter was failing, I had to unteach “school math” and teach her the way they use to teach it in school, and now she is at the top of her class.
What Francois Hollande is doing is trying to guarantee that everyone has the same access to education. It is a laudable goal, but implementing this would be a nightmare if these were our schools.
Only if they provide answers that the kid should have arrived at on his own.
My father gave up part of his Saturdays to help improve my spellling. It worked. Since it was important to my Dad, it became important to me.
Only if they provide answers that the kid should have arrived at on his own.
My father gave up part of his Saturdays to help improve my spellling. It worked. Since it was important to my Dad, it became important to me.
Was France Gall available for comment?
Agree, but you don’t point it out to them, you just remember that in your own mind, moving forth.
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