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It’s come to this: France now considering ban on homework

Oct. 16, 2012 8:11pm Meredith Jessup

In the interest of fairness, of course:

Last week, [French President François Hollande reaffirmed his pledge to make education one of his main domestic priorities by outlining key strategic changes to revitalize France’s school system. It’s a sweeping package of changes meant to reform a system critics claim is outdated and inefficient, but for headline writers it boils down to one concept: the French President wants to outlaw homework. “Work should be done at school, rather than at home,” Hollande emphasized on Wednesday.

He also proposes reducing the average amount of time a student spends in class in each day, while stretching the school week from four days to four and a half. It’s a bid to bring the country more in line with international standards and to acknowledge some of the current system’s shortcomings. Even the homework isn’t just an empty populist gesture — it’s meant to reflect the fact that many of the lowest-performing students lack a positive support environment at home.

Sound crazy? Would it surprise you to know that San Francisco schools have been trying the same policy for a few years now?

Viva la socialisme, or something.

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vashli19
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:35pm
OK, I am an educator. The concept of doing homework at school is not new. It is known as “reverse instruction” and is becoming quite popular in many schools. In reverse instruction students read or watch educational content at home and then do the work in school the next day.
This allows for cooperative learning among students as well as allowing the teacher to assist in any problems. Under traditional “direct instruction and homework”, if the kids got stuck on homework, the teacher would have to spend time the following day reteaching.
How every comment on this story alludes to communism, I have no idea. It’s called education reform. And newsflash..there is no communist plot to take over the US. We won, they lost, so turn in your Birch society membership cards.

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Bohump
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:50am
They may as well do away with homework, .. They sure don’t Teach Them Anything in SCHOOL !

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Patriot Z
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 8:58pm
ply the mob with bread, wine and games. it will keep them ignorant and grateful to their chains, docile and subservient to the emperor. They say “the children our our future”. in this case to be treated as children is in the future

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- arta
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 7:59am
  Clearly France suffers from the very same communist unions that America suffers from. This is not about the children, it is ALWAYS about making the teachers a getting little richer and a little fatter or else X, Y or Z is going to happen to the children…..
  
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meister41
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 8:21pm
They won’t have time for homework… They will be working the fields for the STATE!!!!!!!!!

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