THE HOME WORK QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2180, 19 June 1914, Page 8

THE HOME WORK QUESTION

.CHtLipEK'S TASKS. (Bj ■ wifttj. C«rrß-SB.OBdS'a.tJ Paljiierslonj Jane li The homo vork qfH&st.ion }vas disftussed at a meetiflg of the High Sefawl Governors oil Stawlay' evening. Soine members cnHs.idcrod that the liome-Wik given'to High School atvufc-Hts was■■ too' heavy, ivhihv oi-.-ji-ers woreof ■ the reverse opinion, tiio view that pnpils did not get eiiougli. ' The rector (Mr. J. B. VernwiV, fii reporting on tlie fliatte-fj stated that', tfro liours should 'bo* jlyen to Iwrae- ivcirk each nisrht, and tMeso two bouts siioidd l>e divided e-rjitally .betweiw the'■swbjt'cts set. Tliere lVfls a nils ii'i tl>e sriioolthat, if the pppßs flioitgh't the _bofti» Work too heavy, they ivere to inform him-. There' was a ..teiideitcy for pupils to let .their home work H.eeun'W.iiijtei and, - instead of devoting a-n effft-Sl fetto.to.oael'i subject, tho*. spkit the twn liowrs at one' subject, and tiievi- fouiid thpit tli.ey lia'd either to rush thiwigh tlw ©fter subjects or stay ap alt- aigiit. He poh-. sidcred that," on an. iivernsje, five iiubr jects should fjaeh night. and that • would mean .devotrii-jj 24' n-ij-miti?s'. to each. Ho had thet;ei'oro given his ,s.t:i,fTinstructions to set boms* work Mi e.teh subject that wwdd oeenpy vi.UiJH.fc that time. .Students' going uo (or exa-uiitb. tions inigitt, however, have to devote more timet to home w«i'k. If a ])artsnt considered 'Ills ciiikl. not phs'-sicnlty iible to stand the strain of night stwiy, awl wrote him to that- effect, he would see that the lvo'me woi'k was- ligliteaed. There were p-upiis »t. the sehwl who> by tho doctor's oi'doi's, ted beeJi re- , lieved of hotus w&rk. ■ •