A video about working hours is circulating on the networks that if you are a father or mother, you have to watch it. At first, it seems like a sociological experiment about excessive work schedules that oppress employees, but in the end you get the surprise that it's children. Children who work many hours subject to abuse of school duties.
Is a great campaign promoted by Eva Bailén, a Madrid mother of three children who has launched an initiative calling for the rationalization of homework through the collection of signatures on Change.org.
If they tell us about employees who do endless working hours, they work three hours at home after an 8-hour workday, plus weekends and holidays we are horrified. But when we talk about children, nobody seems scandalous.
My position on homework has already been commented several times. I don't believe in homework as we know them today. I think children do not need to do homework to learn, there are many other ways to learn fueling the motivation and without needing that submission.
If it is necessary for the child to take so much work home to complement an apprenticeship, something is failing in those 5 or 6 hours spent in school. The duties show a failure in the education system that is replaced at the cost of covering children with work outside of school hours.
Excessive duties are of no use
For some it will sound exaggerated, but there are children who spend many hours a week doing homework, and the worst thing is that they don't see any reward. On the contrary, they feel overextended, stressed and frustrated (without going any further, my oldest daughter). There are children who do not fit into an educational system that oppresses them and does not respect their individual needs.
Do so many hours of homework serve anything? The children have 6.5 hours of homework per week compared to an average of 4.9 hours. According to the OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, it is the fifth country (out of 38) that puts more duties and the results of the PISA report (Report of the International Program for the Evaluation of Students) to the tail of the rest of the countries, do not accompany the effort. Something is going wrong, obviously.
There is no right to complaint: #lohacesypunto
But beyond the bad results of reports, the sad thing is that the most affected are the little ones they waste a lot of time doing useless jobs instead of playing and enjoying their childhood, which is what a child should do in his spare time.
A very interesting point that is exposed in the video is that children are helpless, they have no right to complain, to rebel against that abuse. They have to do their homework yes or yes (and the word "duty" makes me bad). Otherwise there will be consequences, in the form of a bad note, of attention calls or in the worst case, humiliation in front of the teammates, as the protagonist of the spot comments.
I invite you to watch the video, to reflect on the homework, on what you want for your children, and if you seem to sign the petition for a rationalization of schoolwork in the Spanish education system (I have already done so).
Fortunately, it is having a lot of impact, numerous signatures have been collected. Hopefully the Ministry of Education takes note of the need to reduce schoolwork and change the situation soon. For the sake of children.
