§ Mr. GROVESasked the President of the Board of Education whether he has considered the question of advising all local education authorities to dispense with the imposition of home work upon scholars of elementary schools; and whether, seeing that such home tasks are usually imposed upon children who are considered below the normal for the standard they are in, he will consider 1106W whether better results might be obtained by retaining such scholars for an additional term?
§ Lord E. PERCYMy information is that homework is not imposed upon children in elementary schools, but is undertaken voluntarily and normally only by children rather above the average in ability. The second part of the question does not, therefore, appear to arise.