Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: President of France Wants to Ban Homework Because It's "Not Fair" to Disadvantaged
If homework is deemed to be good and productive, but unfair, then the right solution is NOT to do away with it.
The right solution is to work to make it fair.
Instead of trying to move up to a higher common denominator, this Socialist French president seems likely to create a lower one...
Mike Shedlock reports on it on the Global Economic Analysis blog:
"I wish I was making this up, and it certainly sounds like it's something straight out of The Onion, yet here it is, on a Washington Post headline: French president pushing homework ban as part of ed reforms. Reason for the homework ban? Francois Hollande doesn’t think it is fair that some kids get homework help from their parents while children who come from disadvantaged families don’t."
