Homework
By Odaka Olugu, 14, London
Children & Young People Now
2 July 2008
Homework is basically extra work that teachers set to "help" children learn but to children it is torture. Children believe that homework is irrelevant because the work we do at home we cover at school anyway. When it comes to homework, children and adults clash.
In my school we get maths homework every Monday for 30 minutes and on Thursday we have maths homework again for about 45 minutes. We also revise for regular science tests and do English homework at weekends. Sometimes we spend 10 minutes on homework and other times one to two hours when we need to...