Maryland Elementary School Abolishes Homework; Should Your.
Gaithersburg Elementary School has abolished homework. Instead, students are being asked to read a book for about 30 minutes a night. When Stephanie Brant came aboard as principal two years ago, she and her staff conducted a review of homework assignments.The Gaithersburg Elementary School in Maryland has abolished homework, and instead is asking students to read a book for about 30 minutes a night, according to a report in Fox news. When Stephanie Brant came aboard as principal two years ago, she and her staff conducted a review of homework assignments.That shout for joy you heard coming from just south of here was from the students and parents at Gaithersburg Elementary School, where the administration has decided to eliminate all homework.
This year, kids at a New York City elementary school saw one of their greatest wishes granted: P.S. 116 in Kips Bay abolished homework. Or, more precisely, the school’s administrators abolished traditional homework, like take-home worksheets, instead encouraging students to do things like have dinner with their families, read, or play outside in a park.The principal of Gaithersburg Elementary in Maryland decided to ask students to spend only 30 minutes in the doing reading. The decision was reached out of the realization that worksheets and other assignments had been assigned merely school of a sense of obligation to dole our homework to students.. losing precious out-of-school homework.
It was a move that doesn't happen very often in American public schools: The principal got rid of homework. This past September, Stephanie Brant, principal of Gaithersburg Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Md., decided that instead of teachers sending kids home with math worksheets and spelling flash cards, students would instead go home and read.
