Originally Posted by Nik
[quote=ElizabethN]Wait...the president of France banned homework altogether? Why can't we do that?


Don't worry, it was a suggestion and it will never actually happen.

When I was a child we found out that the equivalent of the department of education had forbidden homework for the elementary grades. Somehow none of the teachers at my school had gotten the memo, and our attempts at protests were not met with approval...