Her marking technique is to scrawl "Are you fucking kidding me?' in red across her pupils' homework.
The school, which charges £7,405 a term for day pupils and £11,030 a term for boarders, will undergo a five-year review on whether it should stop giving its pupils homework, The Times has reported.
Pupils record homework tasks on their phone's calendar (why do they forget homework diaries but never their textbooks?) and in Debens's geography classes they use the camera function to record things and report back to class.
And just as American and British politicians are demanding that schools copy their more successful oriental counterparts and set their pupils more homework, the South Korean government is telling schools to give pupils regular homework-free days, so they can spend more time with their families just like western children.
The question is what.The leading Democrats Gray Davis, the lieutenant-governor, and Al Checci, a millionaire businessman both favour making the system tougher, with more tests for teachers and pupils, more homework, an end to automatic promotion by age and, of course, more money.
Tell your pupils that homework is x% of their grade, along with tests and classwork/participation. 6 Have a syllabus, bathroom pass system, and planners.
It would be more meaningful to measure the total number of hours a pupil spends on a given subject, both at school and at home.Interestingly, at the end of your article you note that the South Korean government tells schools "to give pupils regular homework-free days", which implies that South Korean pupils do a considerable amount of homework.
Professor Dylan Wiliam, deputy director of the Institute of Education, says: "Getting pupils to do homework is an incredibly expensive and generally unproductive public relations exercise.
Children across the country have returned to their classrooms this week just as the education ministry has put forward plans to decrease the amount of homework pupils must do each day.The ministry's proposed guidelines, issued on August 22nd, would ban written homework for any child up to the age of 12, and ban exams for children up to the age of nine.
In effect pupils do their homework before the lesson, watching a video or web presentation on a new concept the night before.
Sometimes we're held back by online horror stories, but in Singapore I remember being shocked to observe a teacher, one Saturday, answer his mobile phone to a pupil regarding maths homework.
