French President Hollande Proposes Banning Homework
Talk about courting the youth vote. French President François Hollande has proposed banning homework as part of a series of policies designed to reform the French educational system.
“Education is priority,” Hollande said in a speech at Paris’s Sorbonne University. “An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.”
The justification for this proposed ban? Inequality....
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Posted October 21, 2012 at 5:09 pm
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