In Marion County, FL, students from the next academic year will have much more free time.
There are implementing the project «ban homework», reports USA Today.
The head of the school district Heidi Mayer said that they decided to try school without homework for the thirty-one elementary schools because studies show that students do better when given a break from homework.
«This research Professor the University of Tennessee Richard Allington, who found that reading brings to a child more good than homework,» said Meyer.
Many parents agree with the innovation, for example, David Bohrer, whose 10-year-old son Maddox every day after school and spends about two hours on homework.
«They ask too much, but they are children. Let them play,» said Bohrer.
Instead of homework students are encouraged to read each evening at least 20 minutes. Students can choose books, but they will also give recommendations from teachers and librarians.
However, according to representatives of the school district, the teachers will have the right, in certain cases, ask homework projects and research.
