“Homework is for the children.” A mother in Ireland condemned parents for doing their children’s homework in a Facebook rant, which quickly went viral but has since been taken down.
Sarah Thompson, a 37-year-old mother-of-three from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, has been taking her “brood” to the same primary school “for forever”, reports Belfast Live.
“You’d think I’d have learnt,” she told the camera. She was referring to the string of school assignments in which children have to make something – for example, build their own houses – that keep coming around.
“You think I would have learnt to keep them to pass onto the next child, but I haven’t.”
After attending a presentation of her four-year-old son Noah’s class, where children showed off the houses they’d built using materials found around the home, Thompson posted a video to Facebook reminding parents: “Homework is for the children.”
She said Noah spent a week building his project from scratch – that he “was delighted with his work” – only to be shown up by houses that had clearly received some help.
“When Noah took his house project into school he was devastated because of a number of the other kids’ projects where like something from Grand Designs,” she said in the video, The Mirror reports.
“After seeing other homeworks he thought his was rubbish. It just broke my heart”
The other side of the argument, of course, is that increasing volumes of homework is a burden to children and taking away from family time.
