homework v prep

[morethanpotatoprints]

Can somebody explain the differences please, in terms of the rationale for the work given to dc for both of these.
Or am I being daft and they are both exactly the same.
The school is using one term, the teachers another.
in our paraphernalia it says homework, teachers are saying prep.
Thank you

Prep is a boarding school word for homework.

You can't do homework as a boarder because you're not at home... so they call it prep.

It sticks with some people.

I went to boarding school so this is how I know

DS is at a private school (which has boarding, although he's a day pupil). They all call it homework.

Zombie thread, but i wonder how old the children were of the poster above who had one child in private writing sonnets and a similar aged child in state school doing colouring in.

@LimeTreeGrove 😂 and what was her rationale for sending one to fancy sonnet writing school and one to colouring in school?

Yes