Vacations will not be
fun due to homework
Summer holidays are in. Children are happy that at least they don't have to go to school in the scorching heat. But there is a spoiler–holiday homework. Not just kids, holiday homework has become a burden for the parents as well.
Schools assign difficult homework to children on topics not usually done in class. It becomes difficult for parents, specially working ones, as they have to help their children complete these tough projects or, sometimes, do it themselves. Apart from daily chores, running from bookstore to stationery shops to gather material for holiday homework becomes a routine task.
Palak, a first standard kid, has been asked to make a scenery with waste products or unused material at home as Environmental Science homework. In English, she is asked to make chain of 25-30 words with each alphabet. As part of Hindi homework, she has to write maximum number of words with each alphabet and draw pictures with each word.
Palak says sadly, "Our teacher asked us to enjoy our holidays but we have to write so much daily. When will we have fun?"
Palak's mom Anju Singh is not too happy: "It becomes the headache for parents like us to make our children finish their holiday homework. Half of the task I have to do for her. You can't expect a six-year-old to find waste material at home and make scenery out of it. This time, there is holiday homework for all subjects. And for each subject, I have to buy new copies, along with scrap books, pictures to paste, chart papers and what not."
Palak's mom detailed another difficult task her daughter has been assigned–make a hut with matchsticks and count how many sticks were pasted on each surface of the hut. "How many six-year-old kids will be able to do that perfectly? Obviously I had to do it for her."
Eight-year-old Mahasweta is a third standard student. Her mother Urmila Das is worried about her daughter's Environmental Studies homework.
"She has been asked to draw pictures of her activities from morning till she goes to bed. Mahasweta is not good in drawing, even I am the same. Now I am looking for someone who can do this homework for her. Rest of the subjects I can manage. I even brought reference books from the market."
Mahasweta is not happy because along with holiday homework, she has been asked to learn so many things during the holidays.
"For Hindi and Maths, we have been given tasks on a daily basis. So I have to do them daily otherwise I won't be able to finish them. I don't want to get scolding from teacher. I hardly get time to play. This time I won't be able to go to my grandma's place also," says Mahasweta, almost on the verge of breaking down.
For poor Mahasweta and Palak and hundreds of students like them, thanks to holiday homework, vacations will never be fun again.
—Kakoli Thakur
Schools assign difficult homework to children on topics not usually done in class. It becomes difficult for parents, specially working ones, as they have to help their children complete these tough projects or, sometimes, do it themselves. Apart from daily chores, running from bookstore to stationery shops to gather material for holiday homework becomes a routine task.
Palak, a first standard kid, has been asked to make a scenery with waste products or unused material at home as Environmental Science homework. In English, she is asked to make chain of 25-30 words with each alphabet. As part of Hindi homework, she has to write maximum number of words with each alphabet and draw pictures with each word.
Palak says sadly, "Our teacher asked us to enjoy our holidays but we have to write so much daily. When will we have fun?"
Palak's mom Anju Singh is not too happy: "It becomes the headache for parents like us to make our children finish their holiday homework. Half of the task I have to do for her. You can't expect a six-year-old to find waste material at home and make scenery out of it. This time, there is holiday homework for all subjects. And for each subject, I have to buy new copies, along with scrap books, pictures to paste, chart papers and what not."
Palak's mom detailed another difficult task her daughter has been assigned–make a hut with matchsticks and count how many sticks were pasted on each surface of the hut. "How many six-year-old kids will be able to do that perfectly? Obviously I had to do it for her."
Eight-year-old Mahasweta is a third standard student. Her mother Urmila Das is worried about her daughter's Environmental Studies homework.
"She has been asked to draw pictures of her activities from morning till she goes to bed. Mahasweta is not good in drawing, even I am the same. Now I am looking for someone who can do this homework for her. Rest of the subjects I can manage. I even brought reference books from the market."
Mahasweta is not happy because along with holiday homework, she has been asked to learn so many things during the holidays.
"For Hindi and Maths, we have been given tasks on a daily basis. So I have to do them daily otherwise I won't be able to finish them. I don't want to get scolding from teacher. I hardly get time to play. This time I won't be able to go to my grandma's place also," says Mahasweta, almost on the verge of breaking down.
For poor Mahasweta and Palak and hundreds of students like them, thanks to holiday homework, vacations will never be fun again.
—Kakoli Thakur
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