Do children have too much homework these days?

I am reposting this question from the “Grade/Primary Schooler” forum because the answers I received there makes me realise it applies to *all* children even toddlers at nursery school/kindergarten!
I have also added additional comments over there -

With all the exra pressure put on teachers these days, ie the extreme behavioural issues and the full integration of all children into main stream primary school, such as Autism, ADHD etc, not to mention the HUGE rise in paperwork and the constantly changing rules, legislation and curriculum, teachers simply do not have the time to teach everything at school.

I am a teacher myself and Im sorry to say that more than 50% of the school day is spent dealing with social and behavioural problems…in some cases quite severe ones. Many schools now have such a disruptive element in each class….sometimes even as far down the school system as P2, there is more time spent on trying to calm or settle certain children so that the rest of the class can do some work without being constantly disrupted. It is a sad state of affairs, but there is very little time available in the school day that is focused simply on teaching the children. Until there is a SENSIBLE change by governing authorities then I am afrai the situation is not going to improve.

I personally do not agree with giving childen a huge amount of homework. and a child of 7 or 8 years of age should have no more than 30 minues of homework to do and that should include at last 10-15 minutes reading.

Hope this helps

xxx

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