EDIT *I’ve called the school this morning (this post has only just been approved from yesterday) and spoke to the receptionist. She seemed taken back that a teacher is continuously sending out homework right before the school holidays and agrees that the holidays shouldn’t be for school work. She’s going to contact the teacher as well as the head of department to discuss further. I can see that many of you wouldn’t be making your children do homework during holidays either so Thankyou for reassuring me!*
I need to vent here, but I also want to know if other parents have the following issue too. My son is in Year 8 and for the last three school holidays his English teacher has set home work to do over the school holidays. The homework has varies from a two paragraph assignment to a 550+ word article to be written, which took us three different days of the Easter holidays to do, at a couple of hours at a time.She’s the only teacher to ever do this, does anyone else have this problem?
I’m pretty anti-homework anyway but I do enforce him getting it done because it’s part of his grades and if he doesn’t he is punished by school. But this just takes the mick to me! School holidays are there for a reason, it’s the equivalent of adults taking annual leave. It should be used for relaxing, unwinding, taking part on other activities and spending time with family and friends. God forbid I should have booked us a holiday for this week, he would be trying to fit schoolwork in around it too!
I need to vent here, but I also want to know if other parents have the following issue too. My son is in Year 8 and for the last three school holidays his English teacher has set home work to do over the school holidays. The homework has varies from a two paragraph assignment to a 550+ word article to be written, which took us three different days of the Easter holidays to do, at a couple of hours at a time.She’s the only teacher to ever do this, does anyone else have this problem?
I’m pretty anti-homework anyway but I do enforce him getting it done because it’s part of his grades and if he doesn’t he is punished by school. But this just takes the mick to me! School holidays are there for a reason, it’s the equivalent of adults taking annual leave. It should be used for relaxing, unwinding, taking part on other activities and spending time with family and friends. God forbid I should have booked us a holiday for this week, he would be trying to fit schoolwork in around it too!
all i ever see is complaining! ‘oh in our day we did everything like sheep and became little worker bees on minimum wage thanks to school’ 
