To the Editor of the "'Nontn-Ciuxa Daty News"
'Sm,—My youngster, years age, comes home' from school with an" appalling amount homework—to my mind at, least. 'Twenty sums (in addition to, corrections) and some poetry to learn' or Scripture to write out, Can't Something be done about it at all? Are the teachers, and heads of the schoo) so keen on their tea parties, or the dansants, that they forget the old "Ail work and no play....."2 1 have known nights when my child has worked till g'elock, taken his bath and eaten his supper and reluctantly gone to, bed with unfinished homework. 1 into the dining room to finish his homework, Now Task any reasonable parent, docs that sound fair?) 'The child has evidently "not, had a good night's Feat as hig, mind has been probably thinking "I've got" to finish. that Homework." then, ie the. home work ig Not finished the child' is afraid to go to school for fear he will get more homework—in the form of "lines"—punishment meted out at the discretion of the teacher.
I go to office myself and come in the evenings very often fogied out, and then turn to, to ty and help my, child get. his homework. done. It is very evident that the whole thing' lo "wrong. If teachers can't teach the children enough in. the five hours given them to do so then the teacher should either be dismissed, and a teacher engaged wh? can teach. them enough, oF else there is under-stating in the school and. more. teachers should. be engagd, 'The evenings in Shanghai Glose in very quickly these days, 30 that, there "ig. little time for our children to play anyhow—but they Gon't get' a chance to take advantage of the little daylight there Ip left for them, Someone may point out that_ the children have Saturday and Sua-day sto play all day. It's not) enough—and my experience weekends has been—a double dose Qf homework, occupying all' of Tam not alone i my thoughts on the homework question, Several of my friends have complained of the ame thing, but a bunch of mothers sitting down complaining together will "accomplish nothing. Several mothers have gone so far as to the heads of the School about the homework given thely children, with a" promise, "Til soe there is week child has a norm mote of it"' Then for about
amount of homework, but after tha the super-abundance starts to blow T ask again—can nothing be done about it all, and at the came time—can any parents give their views on the homework question?
Maren. Shanghai, Oct, 30,
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