Video: collection of signatures to streamline the duties
Children are working the most slaves in our country. This is how Eva Bailén, engineer, blogger and mother from Madrid considers the duties, who has launched with the help of Change.org a complaint in the form of a video to uncover the most slave work in our country.
Eva Bailén started collecting signatures eight months ago asking for "the rationalization of school duties" in Spain. At the time of writing this article accumulates 145,581 signatures -and is increasing-, leaving 4,419 signatures to reach the 150,000 that it has as a goal.
Before recording this video, he had already given talks on this topic, had already met with organizations in the educational field and had already created a Facebook community on the subject, in addition to his request at Charge.org.
The video about work schedules that will surprise you
Probably, before watching the video you can think that this woman would have uncovered some criminal network that took advantage of the children to produce some business benefit, or something like that. However, the central theme of the video is homework.
If you watch the video again knowing the end, you will realize that they do not exaggerate. Effectively children are about 8 hours a day at school and when they get home they must dedicate approximately 3 hours more to their studies. In addition to this, they have homework during the weekend and Christmas, Easter and summer vacations.
Lack of motivation to do homework
It makes reference to something very common in the classrooms: when they do not have prepared their tasks, they fall a reprimand in front of their classmates that does not generate any benefit in the student. Labeling him as "the lazy one" or "the one who never brings the homework done" produces in the child the feeling that "total, as they do not trust me to do them, I do not bother to do them". The lack of motivation and low academic self-esteem are totally negative for children.
In addition, it is shown that homework generates too much stress for our children. Spanish students are the second in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) who say they feel more pressure for homework. In Spain, children spend 1.6 hours a week more than the average of the rest of the countries, according to the data of the PISA Report 2012. Spain is the fifth country that places the most duties. Here, an average of 6.5 hours per week is devoted to homework, while the average for the rest of the nations is 4.9 hours.
Against schoolwork
Bailen, in his article "What homework they have achieved", explains: "When I wrote the petition and put it on the platform, I had no idea what repercussion it would have, nor how many people I would meet. It is very gratifying to read the comments of the people who support my request, and much more find teachers who are committed, concerned and brave enough to make statements as clear as the one I am going to present to you next. " It refers here to an article by Professor Alfonso Gonzalez, which states that "if the family circumstances of each child are different, everything that is sent home is, by definition, unfair, and condemns to failure thousands of children whose parents are not They have time, or capacity, to help their children with homework.
But in addition, the duties are anti-pedagogical because they make children hate to study and learn. Most children love going to school, but they can not stand doing homework; for children studying and learning is a punishment (my children can not understand that I continue studying for pleasure). That is what we have achieved by sending home duties until we reach the children's boredom. "
Bailen concludes: "What the duties have achieved has been to unite thousands of people in a common goal, to awaken the interest of the media, to make parents like Alfonso confess, that professors like Alfonso say clearly how useless are the duties and to reflect on the lifestyle that the educational system imposes on children and entire families. "
4 advantages of sending homework to children
1. The student continues practicing at home.
2. Learning is not cut off after school.
3. They maintain the feeling of responsibility
4. Investing time in the studies prepares them for the later stages
4 drawbacks of homework
1. The saturation they produce.
2. The feeling of the students as "school slaves".
3. The "intrusion" of parents, who sometimes help more than the account to their children.
4. They do not allow for the game or extracurricular time
Sara Pérez
