HOME WORK
CONVINCING MEDICAL JUDGMENT A Dunedin citizen who wrote to the president of the British Medical Association (New Zealand division) on the subject of school home work, asking that the matter should bo discussed and a definite pronouncement made by that body, has received the following reply from .Dr Paterson, director of the division of school hygiene : “ Dr J. S. Elliott has forwarded me your letter of the 9th ultimo with reference to the subject of ‘ Education During Adolescence,’ and has suggested that I. reply to you. At the recent conference of the New Zealand branch of the 8.M.A., held in Wellington on the afternoon of February 21, the preventive medicine section of the conference discussed the question of the medical examination of teachers, and the following resolution was passed:— After consideration of information furnished by answers to a questionnaire issued to secondary school pupils, and from the evidence afforded by the reports of their medical examination, this meeting of the preventive medicine section, New Zealand branch of 8.M.A., Wellington, February 21, 1929, is of the opinion that the amount of study outside school hours required from such pupils is excessive, and therefore prejudicial to their physical and mental welfare, “ In reference to this resolution it may be stated that all secondary school pupils who are applicants for entrance into the teaching profession are medically examined, and reported upon by officers of the school medical service. A questionnaire was last year submitted to all applicants in order to obtain information regarding the physical and mental demand made by school life.
From the answers given it appears that a considerable proportion of secondary school pupils spend three hours and over in the preparation of home work. In many cases the fatigue of a long journey to school or manual work at home is added.
£< We consider that two honrs_ preparation at homework is tho maximum which should be required of secondary school pupils.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 12
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323HOME WORK Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 12
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