Here's an odd news item from the Queens Gazette. What's this about? Why is a bit of homework so terrible?
http://www.qgazette.com/news/2007/1212/Political_Page/Queens Gazette
December 12, 2007
Political Page
SCHOOL PARENTS BACK VALLONE ON HOMEWORK: The local public school District 30 President's Council (PC), covering schools in Astoria, Long Island City and Jackson Heights, has passed a resolution supporting City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. in calling for a limit on nightly homework assignments.
Under the plan, the Department of Education would cap homework for grade school students at a maximum of two hours a night and leave one night a week free of any homework.
Vallone said the homework bill will be introduced in about two weeks.
The President's Council resolution goes beyond Vallone's guidelines, adding a two-hour homework limit for middle and high school students as well. As for elementary schools, the PC calls for about 10 minutes of homework per grade, which Vallone said he supports, and says that homework assignments should only reinforce a day's lesson and not be assigned for further teaching by parents at home.
"The unanimous vote reaffirms my conviction that students are burdened with too much homework," said Vallone.