The town near Warsaw, a large public primary school. I come as a hospitality for vocational counseling (10 hours a year in the seventh and eighth grade). On this day I am to tell the seventh graders what the journalist's work is.
After a short presentation, I ask what these 13-year-olds would like to read in the media. The answer is immediate:
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– But what about them? They are not there … – I am surprised loudly. And then it starts:
– Well, “not there”! Do you know what is?
– These were better tasks!
The seventh graders complain about one by one, and their teacher spreads her hands helplessly. It is difficult for us to deviate on a different topic. He only goes when I promise solemnly: – I will write.
And there will be no better opportunity to write. A year is just a year since the Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka She closed the mandatory homework. And while we knew a lot about how it was with their homework before 2024, it is much more difficult to learn how the lack of homework in elementary schools changed education. It all depends on where we put the ear and whom we let you speak.
Pursuant to the applicable regulations in grades I-III, homework is not asked, with the exception of exercises to improve small motor skills. In grades IV-VIII, homework is not compulsory, and instead of assessing, the student is to receive information about what he did well and what requires improvement.
How does it work in practice? Research that could show some average, averaged school reality – there is no. The ministry did not commission such. And for now he does not intend to order.
Let's listen to what you can learn directly from the most interested – students, parents and teachers.
There was a lot, but is it good?
But first a quick jump into a not so distant past. How was it with these tasks before the change?
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