Sunday, November 22, 2009

Canadian parents win court battle against homework | World news | guardian.co.uk


Canadian parents win court battle against homework World news guardian.co.uk:

"Usually it is the children, not the parents, who are loath to spend their evenings practising spelling and learning times tables. But a Canadian couple have just won a legal battle to exempt their offspring from homework after successfully arguing there is no clear evidence it improves academic performance.

Shelli and Tom Milley, two lawyers from Calgary, Alberta, launched their highly unusual case after years of struggling to make their three reluctant children do school work out of the classroom."