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The of younger children doing homework is attack. New research suggests that homework for younger children does not provide any benefit and teachers only give it because parents want it. Professor Richard Walker of Sydney University said that elementary (primary) school children do of homework every week but it has minimal, if , effect on their test grades or . He said the situation was little better for junior high school kids. He suggested: “I don't think anyone senior high school students should be doing a of hours of homework.” Dr Walker said: “A little of homework is probably OK at all ages, if part of the reason is to help kids become -directed learners.”

The study from Sydney University comes days after by parents in France to homework and read a book instead. Jean-Jacques Hazan of the French Parents Association said: “If the child hasn't in doing the exercise at school, I don't how they're going to succeed at home.” He added that schools were pushing the responsibility of teaching parents, which causes family . “We're asking parents to do the work that should be done in ,” he said. A teaching spokeswoman agreed, saying: “Not all families have the time or the knowledge to help their offspring.” French primary schools still give homework despite a five--long on it.