Many people now think that teachers give pupils too much homework. They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time. Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks they give to pupils. The result is that pupils have repeat tasks which they have already done at school.
Recently in Greece, many parents complained about the difficult homework which teachers gave to the children. The parents said that most of the homework was waste of time, and they wanted to stop it. Spain and Turkey are 2 countries which stopped the homework recently. In Denmark, West Germany, and several other countries in Europe, teachers cannot set homework at weekends. In Holland, teachers allow pupils to stay at school to do their homework. The children are free to help one another. Similar arrangements also exist in some British schools.