Even logically it makes no sense.” He dismisses the notion that “a child isn’t going to know what to do because they didn’t have eight years of it previously”. One such myth, Lewis says, is the argument that homework is good at preparing pupils for secondary school.
I spend a lot of my time debunking all those myths.” “You’ve got people who’d be very traditional and conservative in their views and have lots of arguments as to why we should keep homework. Instead of the traditional homework we’ve come to know and loathe, Lewis would rather see children “getting good at whatever floats their boat”. With many parents, teachers and mental health professionals against the idea of homework for primary-school children, you’d have to wonder why we continue with it at all. There's nothing any more to suggest that the kind of homework we were getting when we were in school is in any way beneficial at all for the children who are doing it The time, however, there was no homework honeymoon period. In fact they’d missed every single thing about school except homework. They’d missed their friends, teachers, classroom learning and routine. Just a few short weeks later, the dreaded homework returned – and, with it, the familiar dip in the afternoon mood.Īs my troops returned in staggered sequence to school this time around, excitement levels were just as high as last September. Had the pandemic finally seen off the one thing that many parents had longed to see the back of for years?Īlas, it was not to be. Our afternoons and evenings were our own, the kids were more content going to school in spite of all the necessary changes, and things were certainly less fractious around the dining-room table. When the children returned to school last September I dared to dream, for the short while I was allowed, that homework might be a thing of the past.
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