Hello All, sorry if this has been dealt with somewhere else. If it has, couldn't find it.. Here's the thing: my DD is in Year 4 at a mainstream primary school. Her teacher has announced that the children who don't finish their homework at home will be kept in at lunchtime to finish it. I feel quite angry about this. The teacher has sent home quite a lot of work this week (some of it a waste of time e.g. 'copy out this story') and I think it will be too much for a week's homework. I'm fairly anti homework anyway (think it causes later disaffection. In countries where they don't give it to under 11s, bunking off is virtually unheard of). Is it legal for the teacher to be doing this? I'm going to check the school prospectus to see if it's a whole school policy. We do help DD learn spellings each week anyway, and she reads almost obsessively every night through choice, she loves it! Her maths is good, too, so it's not as if she needs to catch up with things. Am feeling frustrated and don't want to cause friction unnecessarily. Any advice on this? Is it legal? (Am ex-primary teacher BTW, so do have some informed idea that DD doesn't need this..)