Another way of looking at the problem is to consider whether teachers should confer with each other so that they do not give too much homework at any single day to avoid overburdening the pupils. In an ideal situation where teachers do care beyond performing their ministerial duties… in a situation where they do care as to whether the kids really learn… they would care if, collectively, they are giving their pupils reasonable workload each and every day.
Still another way is to revise the grade school curriculum by integrating some subjects. Thing is, there are too many subjects. Considering that one subject usually means one teacher, ten sujects means ten teachers giving assignments almost everyday.
Adults normally work for eight hours everyday. Those who work for 10 to 12 hours are known to suffer from fatigue, burnout and work-related stress. And they are adults. Kids spend eight hours in school five days a week. And they are expected to do more work when they get home? Is it reasonable? Or is it subjecting young children to too much school-related stress? Why is an eight-hour schoolday not enough to do and finish the lessons in school?
Shortage in schools, a more serious shortage in quality schools, traffic, shortage in competent faculty members, a possibly irrelevant and obsolete curriculum… all these are factors that affect our children’s education. In a far from ideal situation like the Philippines’, it might be relevant to ask why we are doing certain things, what we hope to achieve by doing them and whether there is a reasonable connection between the two.
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