Hollande now officially the world's best leader

[MadImmortalMan]

PARIS—French President Francois Hollande potentially won the hearts of thousands of future voters on Tuesday by announcing he wants to abolish homework.

Unveiling a new education program, Hollande said school work should "be done at school, rather than at home", to foster educational equality because some students do not have support at home.

He also however advocated a return to the four-and-a-half-day school week from the current four-day week in place in most French schools.

Following his election in May, Socialist Hollande has vowed to make education a key focus of his five-year term and outlined his proposals in the speech on Tuesday.

He also proposed reducing the number of students forced to repeat grades, increasing teacher levels, schooling children at younger ages in disadvantaged areas and boosting measures to fight absenteeism.

Shamelessly stolen from pdot. Homework is not a learning aid. It's an obstacle. Good for France.

[Valmy]

And it will stop Parents from doing kids work for them.  Once again France leads the way in enlightenment

[crazy canuck]

Meh, the efficacy of homework has been questioned for a while now and many schools have made an effort to make sure whatever homework is assigned is meaningful and not merely busy work.

The thing that strikes me as odd is that it is a national leader who decides such things rather than local political bodies or school teachers themselves.

[Valmy]

The thing that strikes me as odd is that it is a national leader who decides such things rather than local political bodies or school teachers themselves.

Everything is centralized over there.

[Grey Fox]

Testify Comrade Holland, testify!

[Lettow77]

[merithyn]

Too bad it's France. The US will never do it now.

[Valmy]

Too bad it's France. The US will never do it now.

As CC noted we could not do this even if we wanted to.  It would have to be done on the local level.

[garbon]

Fuck that. Give them more homework.

[derspiess]

I made my kid do homework starting when he was 3.

[Martinus]

The thing that strikes me as odd is that it is a national leader who decides such things rather than local political bodies or school teachers themselves.

Everything is centralized over there.

And thank God for that. What's the point of having a state if you leave education to local communities (or, worst of all, parents)?

France > RotW

[CountDeMoney]

Shamelessly stolen from pdot. Homework is not a learning aid. It's an obstacle. Good for France.

No shit.  Homework.  Pfft.  That's bullshit.  Not my problem schools can't get their shit straight wasting 8 hours of my time during the day, don't have to shit on me during my time.

Nigga's got my vote.

[Admiral Yi]

And thank God for that. What's the point of having a state if you leave education to local communities (or, worst of all, parents)?

France > RotW

National defense?  Foreign policy?  Transportation infrastructure? 

[crazy canuck]

And thank God for that. What's the point of having a state if you leave education to local communities (or, worst of all, parents)?

France > RotW

National defense?  Foreign policy?  Transportation infrastructure? 

What is that compared to the important issue of whether little Marti gets 30 or 40 minutes of homework a day?

[Martinus]

And thank God for that. What's the point of having a state if you leave education to local communities (or, worst of all, parents)?

France > RotW

National defense?  Foreign policy?  Transportation infrastructure? 

What is that compared to the important issue of whether little Marti gets 30 or 40 minutes of homework a day?

I think our ability to shape hearts and minds of future generations (rather than these being shaped by people who simply happen to be their biological parents) is an important part of social engineering.

Edit: for the record, I was supporting the idea of this being decided centrally, not the decision itself.