The issue of assigning too much homework has sparked much controversy amongst educators. This has sparked Miriam Clifford, a primary school teacher who had been teaching for the last 20 years, to write an opinion piece entitled “The tyranny of homework” on the blog “InformED”, a learning and ideas hub. She vehemently contends that the belief of assigning too much homework in order to help students achieve greater grades should be ignored as countries that assign more homework don’t outperform those with less homework. Clifford, who is a well experienced teacher, highlights several facts and anecdotal accounts throughout her opinion piece to persuade those who are in charge of running the institution as well as government officials that assigning
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This proves her statement that homework causes tyranny for everyone and is a great disadvantage for family life. In order to improve such catastrophic events, she desires that homework should be” uncomplicated and short”. By consistently bombarding readers (those in charge of the educational institution) with such vigorous facts, the readers are expected to be well educated as her and reflect in their own ways if they really desire to educate their students in the best manner …show more content…
By appealing to family values Clifford vehemently exposes the biased policies education ministers have set in order to make hard for students to corporate and mix with their families. This becomes an eye-opening experience for readers to realise how cruel educators have become over the years without parents being informed. By attacking educators, Clifford convinces readers to object the policies and laws set by these ministers and hold aggressive behaviours against them in order to pressurise them to amend these policies.
To add more hatred and controversy to those ministers involved in making these laws, Clifford presents her own experience of having to pack “hordes of books on her trip to spain”. She further adds “ I wanted to enjoy” and “it was not fun”. By sharing her potent stories of her being distracted from enjoying her holiday she convinces readers that homework is only a means of destroying family relationships and deliberately intended by the education ministers. Thus placing a mindset into readers that they must act in the most vigorous manner possible to amend these policies or the worst
This proves her statement that homework causes tyranny for everyone and is a great disadvantage for family life. In order to improve such catastrophic events, she desires that homework should be” uncomplicated and short”. By consistently bombarding readers (those in charge of the educational institution) with such vigorous facts, the readers are expected to be well educated as her and reflect in their own ways if they really desire to educate their students in the best manner …show more content…
By appealing to family values Clifford vehemently exposes the biased policies education ministers have set in order to make hard for students to corporate and mix with their families. This becomes an eye-opening experience for readers to realise how cruel educators have become over the years without parents being informed. By attacking educators, Clifford convinces readers to object the policies and laws set by these ministers and hold aggressive behaviours against them in order to pressurise them to amend these policies.
To add more hatred and controversy to those ministers involved in making these laws, Clifford presents her own experience of having to pack “hordes of books on her trip to spain”. She further adds “ I wanted to enjoy” and “it was not fun”. By sharing her potent stories of her being distracted from enjoying her holiday she convinces readers that homework is only a means of destroying family relationships and deliberately intended by the education ministers. Thus placing a mindset into readers that they must act in the most vigorous manner possible to amend these policies or the worst