OPINION ABOUT HOMEWORKS DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Los padres declaran la guerra a los deberes en las vacaciones de verano (Click here)

We have chosen this Elena Mengual's article of El Mundo newspaper  due to  it is an interesting topic about the education.

We have always thought that assigning homeworks to do in summer is an absurd and ineffective method. We have been pupils of primary a few years ago and we remember that they were serving for nothing, and in addition, we were not disconnecting of the course during the summer. After nine months of course, and 25 hours a week, doing approximately approximately 40 exercises every week in house, the last thing that we wanted was to do more exercises.

Catherine L'Ecuyer, Educar en el asombro authoress, aims that to assign homeworks to do in summer "only for not losing the habit, sense does not make". Another person who reinforces our theory is Mireia Long, Pedagogía Blanca co-director, who defends that the pupils must rest physics and emotionally. However, Luis Carbonel, the president of Confederación Católica Nacional de Padres de Familia y Padres de Alumnos (Concapa), express clearly in favour of the homeworks during holidays "but not understood as a revision, that also, but as occasion to be useful the time and to learn new things. What it is not possible to consent is that they pass all the time watching the television". It is totally false that a child who does not have to do homeworks in summer is all the time watching the television. From our point of view, it is a justification with few foundations since a child during the summer has time to watch the television, and in addition, to play with the friends or to go out with his parents to the cinema, for example. In addition, there would be necessary to ask any person who is in favour of the homeworks in summer if he or she work during his or her holidays. We believe that it is the same fact.

Jesús Salido, president of the Confderación Española de Padres y Madres de Alumnos (Ceapa), association for which we talk and write about this topic, "was thinking that it was the correct thing (assigning homeworks) because they us have always sold this idea, until I have seen that is not the most suitable thing, among other things, because the homeworks generate many tensions in the families. First with the children who don´t want to do them because they prefer playing and it is very easy to finish vociferously or with punishments. In addition, it condemns to the rest of the family not to go out until they finish the homeworks”.

In our opinion, homeworks in summer musn´t be compulsory and they haven´t to have as a consequence a negative mark. 

Thank you for your understanding.